Friday 21 October – Kitty Whately and Joseph Middleton
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomBritish mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately performs a programme of music by Vaughan Williams and his pupils.
POSTPONED: Saturday 22 October – Felix Gygli and JongSun Woo
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomA recital celebrating winners of the 2022 Leeds Lieder/Schubert Institute UK Song Prize.
Saturday 22 October – James Gilchrist and Joseph Middleton
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomRenowned British tenor James Gilchrist performs songs by Beethoven, Schumann and Fauré.
Sunday 23 October – Lieder Lounge
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomAn informal session of music-making, offering patrons the opportunity to perform Lieder themselves!
Sunday 23 October – Ashley Riches and Joseph Middleton
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomAshley Riches and Joseph Middleton perform repertoire from their acclaimed song disc ‘A Musical Zoo’.
Wednesday 16 November – Leeds Lunchtime Chamber Music
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomA programme of art songs and duets from the land and sea including Britten’s song cycle On this Island.
Friday 10 February – Jennifer Johnston and Joseph Middleton
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall School of Music, University of Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomJennifer Johnston mezzo-soprano Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £15 (standard) Free (students) One Life Stand Jonathan Dove (1959-) My Love is mine Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Canticle 1 The Birds I Wonder as I Wander At the mid hour of night The last rose of summer O waly, waly Cheryl Frances-Hoad (1980-) Two Shakespeare Songs Joseph Horovitz (1926-2022) […]
Wednesday 15 February – Miah Persson and Joseph Middleton
Howard Assembly Room 32 New Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire, United KingdomMiah Persson soprano Joseph Middleton piano Tickets: £14-22 (standard) £10 (18 and under/Opera North Under 30 member) Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907) Six Songs, Op. 48 Gösta Nystroem (1890 - 1966) Själ och landskap Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) Våren flyktar hastigt Säv, säv, susa Flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte Den första kyssen Svarta […]
Saturday 4 March – A Marvellous Party
Leeds Conservatoire 3 Quarry Hill, Leeds, Yorkshire, United KingdomMary 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 KingdomClick 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 KingdomTexts & 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 KingdomTexts & 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 KingdomPeter 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 KingdomTexts & 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 KingdomTexts & 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 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 […]