Festival events
Saturday 10 June – Late-night recital: Voice Electric – Lotte Betts-Dean
Kino @ Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomLotte Betts-Dean mezzo-soprano Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. Mezzo-soprano Lotte Betts-Dean sings works for solo amplified voice with electronics, from groundbreaking 20th-century works by Scelsi, Feldman and Schwitters to 21st-century pieces that draw on medieval plainchant, experimental hip-hop and breakcore, including works by […]
Sunday 11 June – SongPath Leeds 2023
Kirkstall Abbey Abbey Road, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomWelcome music from 10.45am Event runs: 11am - 12.30pm Jess Dandy contralto Joanna Harries mezzo-soprano Guest artists: Jesse Bannister saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist, Indian classical music specialist David Haley ecological artist Tickets: £10 "The wandering of the legs gives rise to the wandering of the mind…” SongPath returns to Leeds for a second year with a unique […]
Sunday 11 June – Festival Guest of Honour: Dame Janet Baker
Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomIn conversation with John Bridcut. Followed by the documentary film: 'Janet Baker: In Her Own Words'. Tickets: £25 £23 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. “Film-maker John Bridcut gets to the heart of Britain’s finest classical singer of the 20th century." More than thirty years after her […]
Sunday 11 June – Evening lecture recital: Around and Behind Die schöne Müllerin on the cycle’s 200th anniversary
Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomGraham Johnson OBE piano George Robarts baritone Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Lunchtime & Lecture Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. In the 200th anniversary year of the composition of Die schöne Müllerin, our greatest living Schubertian […]
Monday 12 June – Festival Masterclass I: Graham Johnson
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Known worldwide as a ‘peerless song accompanist’ (‘Daily Telegraph’), Graham Johnson reimagined and revitalised the song recital with the advent of his Songmakers’ Almanac. His complete recordings of Schubert, Schumann, Brahms and a treasure […]
Monday 12 June – Festival Masterclass II: Susan Manoff
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. For our second masterclass, we welcome for the first time at Leeds Lieder, pianist Susan Manoff, professor at the Conservatoire National de Musique et de Danse de Paris. Born in New York of Latvian […]
Tuesday 13 June – Festival Masterclass III: James Garnon
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. An event that is guaranteed to get you thinking. For the first time we invite an actor to work with our budding young singers and pianists. James Garnon trained at the Royal Academy of […]
Tuesday 13 June – Schools Culmination Concert I – Living Lieder
The Ballroom, Pudsey Civic Hall Dawsons Corner, Cote Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomClick here to view the Living Lieder Concert programme. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) We are so excited to reinstate the concerts which round off our award-winning education projects this year and for the first time ever incorporate these wonderful events into the Festival! The Living Lieder Project sees our team, including a singer, […]
Tuesday 13 June – Schools Culmination Concert II – Discovering Lieder
The Ballroom, Pudsey Civic Hall Dawsons Corner, Cote Lane, Pudsey, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomClick here to view the Discovering Lieder Concert programme. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) We are so excited to reinstate the concerts which round off our award-winning education projects this year and for the first time ever incorporate these wonderful events into the Festival! Discovering Lieder is a 45-minute recital designed to follow a […]
Tuesday 13 June – Composers & Poets Forum concert: ‘A Leeds Songbook’
Recital Room, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomPoems & Biographies - click here to download. Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Brand new for 2023, a re-imagined Composers & Poets Forum sees the birth of a Leeds songbook. Stories about the people of Leeds, told in poems […]
Tuesday 13 June – Celebrity recital: Véronique Gens and Susan Manoff
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Please note that this recital will run without an interval. Véronique Gens soprano Susan Manoff piano Tickets: £28 £25 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Charles Gounod Où voulez-vous aller? Viens, les gazons sont verts […]
Wednesday 14 June – Lunchtime recital: Felix Gygli and JongSun Woo
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute UK Prizewinners’ Recital in association with Schubert Institute UK Felix Gygli baritone JongSun Woo piano Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Lunchtime & Lecture Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Franz Schubert Settings of Goethe Ganymed […]
Wednesday 14 June – Festival Masterclass V: Sir Thomas Allen
Recital Room, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Appearances by Sir Thomas Allen are always red letter days in Leeds. He appeared as Guest of Honour in 2018 and his masterclass confirmed his reputation in Leeds as one of the most knowledgeable, […]
Wednesday 14 June – Pre-concert talk with Dr George Kennaway
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) Dr George Kennaway introduces this evening’s recital to be given by James Newby and Joseph Middleton. Book online via the Leeds Lieder website – click the "book tickets" button on this page. Book over telephone via the Leeds Conservatoire box office: […]
Wednesday 14 June – Evening recital: James Newby and Joseph Middleton
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. James Newby baritone 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. Benjamin Britten I wonder as I wander There's none to soothe Ludwig van Beethoven Maigesang Adelaide An die ferne Geliebte […]
Thursday 15 June – Lunchtime recital: Nick Pritchard and Members of Opera North
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Nick Pritchard tenor David Cowan piano With members of the Orchestra of Opera North: Winona Fifield violin Claire Osborne violin David Aspin viola Dan Bull ’cello Tickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Lunchtime & Lecture Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival […]
Thursday 15 June – Festival Masterclass VI: Joan Rodgers CBE
Recital Room, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTickets: £15 £13 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Joan Rodgers’ many accolades include receiving the Royal Philharmonic Society Award, Evening Standard Award for outstanding performance in opera for her performance as The Governess in the Royal Opera’s production of The Turn of […]
Thursday 15 June – Pre-concert talk with Dr Katy Hamilton
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) Dr Katy Hamilton introduces tonight’s joyous recital that brings together three friends at the top of their game. Book online via the Leeds Lieder website – click the "book tickets" button on this page. Book over telephone via the Leeds Conservatoire […]
Thursday 15 June – Evening recital: Kate Royal, Christine Rice MBE and Julius Drake
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Kate Royal soprano Christine Rice MBE mezzo-soprano Julius Drake piano Tickets: £25 £23 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Johannes Brahms Zigeunerlieder He, Zigeuner, greife in die Saiten ein! Hochgetürmte Rimafluth, wie bist so trüb […]
Friday 16 June – Study event with Dr Katy Hamilton and Leeds Lieder Young Artists: “I am.”
The Venue, Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomTexts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: £10 £8 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Young Artists Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. Katy Hamilton, ably assisted by the brilliant singers and pianists of the Leeds Lieder Young Artists programme, explores a variety of repertoire in which protagonists speak […]