Amanda Roocroft is one of Britain’s best-loved sopranos and a teacher in demand world-wide. Her masterclasses are always a fascinating blend of encouraging duos to marry solid technique with a vivid imagination.

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

This recital is a passion product born out of the strife of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Your opportunity to enjoy the finest young duos of the Leeds Lieder Young Artist Programme, coached over the week by Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Felicity Lott, Julius Drake, Anna Tilbrook, Scott Brooksbank and others.

Established as one of the world’s leading song pianists, Julius Drake makes a very welcome return to Leeds Lieder.

We are thrilled to welcome one of the most distinctive compositional voices of our time to Leeds Lieder.

In recent years Louise Alder’s recitals at Leeds Lieder have been festival highlights. Her generosity as a performer is matched by her remarkable instrument and ability to get to the heart of the repertoire she is performing.

Appearances by the legendary Sir Thomas Allen are always special occasions at Leeds Lieder.

Kitty Whatley and Natalie Burch present a typically inventive programme placing contrasting settings of the same texts side by side.

Patron of Leeds Lieder, the great British soprano Dame Felicity Lott, returns to Leeds to give the closing masterclass of the Festival.

Cellist and musicologist Dr George Kennaway returns to Leeds Lieder to give one of his popular pre-concert talks.

This recital by Alice Coote and pianist Julius Drake takes joy in questioning what makes music ‘classic’?

Join us in the Howard Assembly Room’s Kino Bar for an informal late-evening session of song and poetry presented by our Leeds Lieder Young Artists.

Having engaged with Schubert’s music for over five decades as an internationally celebrated performer, scholar and author, Leeds Lieder patron, Graham Johnson offers unique insights into Schubert’s songs, building a vivid and detailed picture of this incomparable composer.

Come and support the outstanding singers and pianists who have immersed themselves in song over the course of the past week in Leeds.

With his usual insights and charisma, George Kennaway picks out pertinent themes both musical and textual from Die schöne Müllerin ahead of tonight’s closing recital.

It is with great pleasure that we welcome Christoph Prégardien to Leeds to close the 2025 Festival performing Schubert’s beloved cycle with Festival Director, Joseph Middleton.