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06/02/2025

Tomorrow's open mic night is unfortunately cancelled!

Tomorrow's lunchtime concert and masterclass will be going ahead as planned :)

05/02/2025

A word from one of our friends...

Instituto Cervantes Leeds presents a programme of amazing events:

· La odisea de los giles - Film screening - Feb 5th - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/la-odisea-de-los-giles-tickets-1115408219009?aff=oddtdtcreator

· Quan Zhou "A writer, author, speaker and podcaster" - 11th Feb - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quan-zhou-a-writer-author-speaker-and-podcaster-tickets-1114406372459?aff=oddtdtcreator

· Discover Spanish Zarzuela - Feb 15th - Julia Merino & Ricardo Gosalbo at Clothworkers Centenary Concert Hall - https://concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/julia-merino-ricardo-gosalbo/

· The agonising and the divine. Writing cinema from literature - Feb 26th https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/de-lo-agonico-y-lo-divino-escribir-cine-desde-la-literatura-tickets-1114067589149?aff=oddtdtcreator

29/01/2025

Calling all University of Leeds music students!

Discover more about your craft with our specialist masterclasses and workshops this term 🎶🎵🎼

Learn more at concerts.leeds.ac.uk/masterclasses-and-workshops

27/01/2025

🎶✨ Discover the magic of classical music concerts! 🌟 These live performances not only captivate the senses but also offer profound therapeutic benefits. 🍃 Let the soothing melodies wash over you, reducing stress and enhancing mental wellbeing. 🎻 Join us for a symphonic journey to serenity! 🕊️

WHAT'S ON: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events

23/01/2025

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: BRAHMS’ REQUIEM
FRIDAY 28 MARCH | 7:00PM

Students perform Brahms’ seven movement large-scale chorus work, Ein deutsches Requiem.

Music direction by Dr Clive McClelland. Clive specialises in topic theory, and is an associate professor. He was previously the chair of the Schubert Institute and chorus master of Leeds Baroque.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

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22/01/2025

David Preston 'Mµ Trio' - featuring Elliot Galvin & Sebastian Rochford
FRIDAY 28 MARCH | 1:05PM

David Preston was a finalist at the 2009 Montreux International Guitar competition and is composer and co-leader for the critically acclaimed UK modern-jazz trio ‘Preston Glasgow Lowe’ . He has been active as a sideman to a variety of cross-generational musicians such as Lianne La Havas, Empirical, Asaf Sirkis, Peter Ind, Emma Rawicz, Melody Gardot, Goldie & the Heritage Orchestra, and Ingrid Jensen.

Seb Rochford is founder of Polar Bear, two of whose albums were nominated for the Mercury Prize. He has also played with Acoustic Ladyland, Ingrid Laubrock Quintet, Sons of Kemet, Corrine Bailey Rae and Herbie Hancock. Seb has worked extensively with Joanna MacGregor and Andy Sheppard, toured with Patti Smith and recorded with David Byrne and Brian Eno and played on Adele’s album ‘19’.

Elliot Galvin is one of the rising stars of UK jazz, he is a key member of Dinosaur, led by Laura Jurd. A superbly gifted composer and pianist, his maverick imagination and magpie-like ability to blend a disparate world of influences has seen him compared to Django Bates. In 2014 was announced winner of the European Young Jazz Artist of the Year Award.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/david-preston-m%c2%b5-trio-featuring-elliot-galvin-sebastian-rochford/

21/01/2025

BAND PROJECT
WEDNESDAY 26 MARCH | 7:00PM

Join us for the return of our sell-out Band Project!

Taking place in Clothworkers Bar, the programme will feature short sets by School of Music bands working in a variety of styles and genres. Each band will demonstrate their performing and creative abilities through a selection of instrument and vocal covers, arrangements and original compositions.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events

20/01/2025

CHARLOTTE SPRUIT & SERGIO BUCHELI
FRIDAY 21 MARCH | 1:05PM

Nicola Matteis - Passagio Rotto
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Suite for Solo Violin in A Major
Robert de Visée - Suite for violin and lute in G Major
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Passacaglia
Henry Purcell - Prelude in G minor
Henry Eccles - A New Division upon the Ground Bass of John come kiss me
Nicola Matteis - a selection from Ayres for the Violin

Both performers are musicians of critical acclaim, and work extensively throughout the UK and abroad both as soloists and chamber musicians.

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/charlotte-spruit-sergio-buceli/

Young Classical Artists Trust - YCAT

19/01/2025

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: ORCHESTRA
SUNDAY 16 MARCH | 3:00PM

This year's orchestral project continues the recent collaborations between the School of Music at the University of Leeds and the Leeds Conservatoire.

The programme, conducted by Ben Crick, begins with a rare performance of Lili Boulanger's 'D'un matin de printemps' followed by an equally rare performance of Marie Jaëll's cello concerto with guest soloist Valerie Welbanks. We conclude with a performance of Schubert's 8th symphony, 'The unfinished'.

The score of the Cello Concerto by Marie Jaëll is published by Éditions Sébastien Troester, Paris

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18/01/2025

ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE: GAMELAN
FRIDAY 14 MARCH | 7:00PM

School of Music students take to the Clothworkers stage to perform music for Indonesian Gamelan and Korean Gayageum.

Directed by Ángel Cataño Flores, students will perform a collection of traditional and contemporary repertoire on the School of Music’s Javanese Gamelan. This set of bronze gongs and metallophones, named "The Golden Thread" in reference to Leeds’ strong connections with the textile industry, was hand-crafted in the court city of Surakarta in Central Java twenty-two years ago.

The Gayageum (가야금) is a traditional Korean string instrument with a rich and storied history. Led by Dr Hyunah Cho, the performance will explore a variety of Korean folk songs, including Arirang and Doraji, which evoke deep emotions and reflect the cultural narratives of the Korean people. The music played on the Gayageum offers a unique and captivating experience, highlighting the essence of Korean musical heritage.

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17/01/2025

KATALIN KOLTAI
FRIDAY 14 MARCH | 1:05PM

Katalin Koltai is an internationally established guitarist, chamber musician, and researcher. She developed the Guitar Magnet Capo System and the Ligeti Guitar (2022), making a significant contribution to the guitar’s evolution.

Since 2009, Katalin has been the guitar soloist for the Hungarian State Opera and the UMZE Ensemble. She is the artistic leader of the interdisciplinary new music ensemble, the Barefoot Musicians.

Katalin’s work has received widespread recognition in both academia and the music industry.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

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16/01/2025

Ainsley Hamill with Sam Kelly & Toby Shaer

FRIDAY 28 FEBRUARY | 1:05PM

Ainsley is one of the UK’s most distinctive and versatile singers, known for her remarkable voice, storytelling, and emotive style. Her previous album, Not Just Ship Land (2021), named The Guardian’s Album of the Month, showcased her ‘voice thick with velvet and mirk,’ likened to the warmth of The Breath and the forlorn depth of early Adele.

Sam Kelly is a BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winning singer, song-writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Sam's debut EP - entitled Your Way Home was released in March 2013, which swiftly created a buzz of interest in the folk scene for Sam's music. He followed this up with the release of the widely acclaimed Spokes EP.

Toby Shaer is an up and coming folk musician from Leigh on Sea, Essex. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer who has worked and shared stages with some of the finest musicians in the folk/country music scenes.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/ainsley-hamill/

Ainsley Hamill Toby Shaer Sam Kelly

15/01/2025

RICHARD BARRETT & MILANA ZARIC
WEDNESDAY 26 FEBRUARY | 6:00PM

Richard Barrett (electronics)
Milana Zarić (acoustic and electric harps, electronics, voice)

At the centre of this programme is the idea of extending an ancient instrument into new territories. The two collaborative compositions by Milana Zarić and Richard Barrett add electric harp and live processing to expand and multiply the instrument further, complemented by Richard Barrett's solo piece "hylozoon" for his own keyboard/computer instrument.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/richard-barrett-milana-zaric/

14/01/2025

MARSYAS TRIO & LOTTE BETTS-DEAN
SATURDAY 22 FEBRUARY | 7:30PM

Maurice Ravel - La flute enchantée (Shéhérazade)
Judith Weir - Nuits d'Afrique
Maurice Ravel - Chansons madécasses

Camille Saint-Saëns - Une flûte invisible
Ewan Campbell - Translations of the Night
Mel Bonis - Scenes de la foret, movements 3 and 4
Michael Finnissy - Wisdom

This globetrotting programme for voice, flute, cello and piano is inspired by a rich array of literary sources.

Tickets: £10 (general) / Free (students)

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/marsyas-trio-with-lotte-betts-dean/

FUAM Marsyas Trio Lotte Betts-Dean

13/01/2025

STUDENT SHOWCASE
FRIDAY 21 FEBRUARY | 1:05PM

An opportunity to hear work by students on solo performance courses in the School of Music.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

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12/01/2025

JULIA MERINO & RICARDO GOSALBO
SATURDAY 15 FEBRUARY | 7:30PM

Pablo Luna - De España vengo
Gerónimo Giménez - Sierras de Granada
José Serrano - Marinela, Marinela
Ruperto Chapí - Cuando está tan hondo
Ruperto Chapí - Te quiero
José Serrano - A una gitana presiosa
Vicente Lleó - Son las mujeres de Babilonia
José Serrano - Palomica aragonesa
Ruperto Chapí - Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores

In this overview of the unique lyric-dramatic genre, rising star mezzo-soprano Julia Merino and acclaimed pianist Ricardo Gosalbo embark on a musical journey to sunlit Spain to explore Zarzuela’s vast riches. In collaboration with Instituto Cervantes.

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/julia-merino-ricardo-gosalbo/

Instituto Cervantes Leeds

11/01/2025

SAMUELE TELARI
FRIDAY 14 FEBRUARY | 1:05PM

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Andante in F major, K616
Franz Schubert - Impromptu, op 90, no 2
Franz Schubert - Impromptu, op 142, no 4
Dmitri Shostakovich - 24 Preludes and fugues, op 87, no 15 in C sharp major
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Suite dallo “Schiaccianoci”

Samuele’s recent solo engagements include recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and Berlin Konzerthaus. Samuele is a prize-winner at the 2019 Young Classical Artists Trust (YCAT) International Auditions.

Free admission / Pay as you feel

Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/samuele-telari/

Young Classical Artists Trust - YCAT Samuele Telari

10/01/2025

CLAIRE BARNETT-JONES & REBECCA COHEN
FRIDAY 7 FEBRUARY | 1:05PM

‘Mahler’s Circle of Muses’

One of Operawire’s 10 Rising Stars, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize-winner and mezzo-soprano Claire Barnett-Jones is joined by acclaimed pianist Rebecca Cohen in a programme of song inspired by the unique voice of Alma Mahler.

Drawing on the various influences, inspirations and collaborations who shaped her musical and personal life, the programme will include songs by Alma Mahler, Zemlinksy, Johanna Müller-Hermann, Strauss, Korngold and Gustav Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.

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Learn more & book: concerts.leeds.ac.uk/events/claire-barnett-jones-rebecca-cohen-2/

Claire Barnett-Jones Mezzo Soprano

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