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Saturday 4 March – A Marvellous Party

Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Mary Bevan soprano Nicky Spence tenor Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £20 (standard) £15 (unwaged / disabled people) Free (under 30s / students) Click here to view the programme. A Marvellous Party Songs and duets by Coward, Weill, Messager, Rorem, Satie, Poulenc, Gershwin, Britten, Walton. Three of the UK's most popular recitalists join forces for an […]

Thursday 20 April – Roderick Williams and Joseph Middleton

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Click here to view the programme. Roderick Williams baritone Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £14-22 (standard) £10 (18 and under/Opera North Under 30 member) The Fair Maid of the Mill Roderick Williams returns to the Howard Assembly Room following last year’s spellbinding performance of Winter Journey (Winterreise) to perform another of Jeremy Sams’ wonderfully communicative English translations of Schubert song […]

Friday 9 June – Pre-concert talk with Dr George Kennaway

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) 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. Book online via the Leeds Lieder website – click the "book tickets" button on this […]

Friday 9 June – Opening Gala recital: Mark Padmore CBE and Ana Manastireanu

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Mark Padmore CBE tenor Ana Manastireanu piano Tickets: £28 £25 (unwaged/disabled) FREE (U30/students) Part of the Evening Recitals Pass. Find out more about our new Festival Passes here. n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. Robert Schumann Hans Christian Anderson Lieder Op. 40 […]

Saturday 10 June – Lunchtime book launch ‘Rediscovering Black Portraiture’

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Peter Brathwaite baritone Allyson Devenish 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. Since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, baritone Peter Brathwaite has thoughtfully researched and reimagined more than one hundred artworks featuring portraits of black sitters – […]

Saturday 10 June – Pre-concert talk with Richard Stokes

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Tickets: FREE (please book in advance) n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. Professor of Lieder at the Royal Academy of Music, and Leeds Lieder Patron, Richard Stokes returns to the Howard Assembly Room to give one of his ever popular pre-concert talks. […]

Saturday 10 June – Evening recital: Louise Alder and Joseph Middleton

Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Texts & Translations - click here to download. Louise Alder 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. n.b. Leeds Conservatoire is the Box Office for all Festival events. Franz Schubert Sehnsucht Im Freien Im Haine Die Rose […]

Saturday 10 June – Late-night recital: Voice Electric – Lotte Betts-Dean

Kino @ Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Lotte 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 Kingdom

Welcome 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 Kingdom

In 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 Kingdom

Graham 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 Kingdom

Tickets: £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 Kingdom

Tickets: £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 Kingdom

Tickets: £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 Kingdom

Click 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 Kingdom

Click 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 Kingdom

Poems & 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 Kingdom

Texts & 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 Kingdom

Texts & 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 Kingdom

Tickets: £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, […]