Our Composers and Poets programme showcase.

This pre-concert talk with Richard Stokes will illuminate Graham Johnson’s re-imagining of the tradition song recital.

For tonight’s recital, Graham Johnson has devised a programme of Lieder based on the plot of Così fan tutte and containing numerous Mozartian echoes.

Join us in the bar for an informal evening of local ales and song and poetry presented by our Leeds Lieder Young Artists.

Dr Katy Hamilton, a regular researcher and presenter, leads our Young Artists through the birth of the piano accompanied song.

This music theatre piece explores the spaces between those songs. All the music is by Wagner. It was specially created for the 2018 St Endellion Summer Festival.

Our final Festival Masterclass with Iain Burnside, and presentation of the Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute of Great Britain Song Prize.

Join composer Hannah Kendall as she introduces this year’s Leeds Lieder Commission written especially for Roderick Williams, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton.

The programme may include music by the likes of Purcell, Schumann and Wolf but the exact content, especially who sings what, will be decided by the audience. Join two of Britain’s finest singers and favourites at Leeds Lieder, grab a soap box and prepare to engage…