Texts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) One of the UK’s most sought-after speakers on music, Dr Katy Hamilton gives an illuminating talk to introduce tonight’s recital. Book online via the Leeds Lieder website – click the "book tickets" button on this page. Book over telephone via the […]

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Ailish Tynan soprano Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £25 £23 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Hubert Parry My heart is like a singing bird Good night Crabbed age and youth Bright star Charles Villiers Stanford […]

Tickets: Pay what you like. No booking required. Join us in the Rooftop Bar for an informal late-evening session of song and poetry presented by our Leeds Lieder Young Artists.

Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Your opportunity to enjoy the finest young duos, coached over the week by Sir Thomas Allen, Julius Drake, Graham Johnson OBE and Joan Rodgers CBE, amongst others. Alumni from the Leeds Lieder masterclasses include […]

with Andrea Brown Head of Choral Conducting at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and William Campbell organ Tickets: £10 per singer Calling all singers! Would you like to experience the thrill of working with one of the UK’s leading choral trainers? Now’s your chance! Andrea Brown works as conductor of English National […]

Tickets: £6 £4 (unwaged/disabled), FREE (U30/students) Following an afternoon of rehearsals under the inspirational leadership of Andrea Brown, the newly-formed Leeds Lieder Bring and Sing! Chorus performs Mozart’s iconic Requiem. The vocal score edition we will be using is the New Novello Choral Edition with the Süssmayr completion. Scores will be available at Leeds Minster for participants […]

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Sir Simon Keenlyside baritone Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £28 £25 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Franz Schubert Winterreise Sir Simon Keenlyside, one of the world’s great Lieder interpreters, makes his long-awaited Leeds Lieder debut […]

SongPath returns to Leeds for a second year with a unique outdoor walking trail that blends music, nature and mental health. This year we explore the rich natural world and history of the 900 year-old ruins of Kirkstall Abbey, where nature intertwines with spectacular Gothic architecture.

German soprano Nikola Hillebrand made her UK recital debut at Leeds Lieder at the 2022 Festival. It was a knockout performance resulting in Gramophone Magazine writing “Hillebrand’s radiant, gilt tone fits this repertoire lusciously, her diction is excellent and she communicates with warmth.”

A recital featuring the outstanding 2024 cohort of Leeds Lieder’s Young Artists. Join us for a Schubertiade led by expert linguist, song specialist and pedagogue, Richard Stokes.

A special ‘Thank you!’ for members of the Friends of Leeds Lieder

A Gala Concert featuring an all-Schubert programme will include Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor (D. 940) to be performed by Middleton and Vignoles, rare Schubert ensembles showcasing members of the Young Artists Programme and duets by Hillebrand and Williams.

As a special thank you to the Friends of Leeds Lieder, this masterclass is an opportunity to get up close to the action and meet our Young Artists while they prepare new material.

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.