Especially for the 2024 Festival, a programme to celebrate the cross-cultural art of British and Indian composers and poets. Indian composers are heard setting English poems, alongside English song settings of Indian poetry.

These two concerts round off our award-winning education projects this year and we are proud to present them during the Festival.

These two concerts round off our award-winning education projects this year and we are proud to present them during the Festival.

A continuation of our acclaimed 2023 ‘Leeds Songbook’ project, our Composers & Poets Forum sees further creative contributions to the song collection.

For the first time we are collaborating with Through the Noise, a groundbreaking promotor whose mission it is to bring the best classical artists to popular club locations.

Dame Felicity Lott provides our international Young Artist duos with insight and experience, working with them as they explore the treasure trove of French song.

This lecture recital given by the great Graham Johnson will prove that Fauré is no longer merely a 'Master of Charms' circumscribed by the belle époque.

Known worldwide as a ‘peerless song accompanist’, Graham Johnson reimagined and revitalised the song recital with the advent of his Songmakers’ Almanac.

Head of School and Professor of Music at the University of Leeds, Barbara Kelly, gives an enlightening introduction to this evening’s recital.

James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook perform repertoire by composers including Quilter, Fauré, Mahler, Boulanger and Muriel Herbert.

Enjoy the finest young duos of the Leeds Lieder Young Artists Programme, coached by Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott and more.

Having watched this great song duo in performance, our Young Artists will benefit from a joint masterclass with James Gilchrist and Anna Tilbrook.

Cellist and musicologist Dr George Kennaway, Visiting Research Fellow at Huddersfield and Leeds Universities, returns to Leeds Lieder to give one of his popular pre-concert talks.

To close the Leeds Lieder Festival, Sampson and Middleton present a gala recital entitled “But i like to sing…” a witty line from Bernstein’s song written for children: “I hate music!”.

In the informality of the Kino bar, Claire Barnett-Jones will offer up for a late-night cabaret performance along with pianist Libby Burgess.

Benjamin Appl leads our Young Artists through their chosen repertoire, passing on the experiences he had as a pupil of Fischer-Dieskau.

Performed in English, alongside new poems by Kate Wakeling, this is a fresh take on one of the most unusual and captivating of all song cycles.

Calling all singers! Now is your chance to experience the thrill of working with one of the UK’s leading choral trainers

Following an afternoon of rehearsals under the inspirational leadership of Andrea Brown, the newly-formed Leeds Lieder Bring and Sing!

In this pre-concert talk, Davies introduces her new song cycle, specially commissioned for this 20th Anniversary Festival.