Wishing all of you, our Leeds Lieder community, a very happy New Year!
We hope you enjoy the recording from the 2024 festival, which looks ahead to the colourful springtime and a song that will last the whole summer through.
Wishing everyone a happy festive season
Wishing all those that are part of our Leeds Lieder community a very happy festive season. To our artists, audiences, supporters and Friends, and those who take part in our education programmes, we send our best wishes for Christmas and the New Year. We look forward to welcoming you to our 2025 events.
Nikola Hillebrand made her UK recital debut at Leeds Lieder at the 2022 Festival. Now we are delighted to welcome her back to open our 20th Anniversary Festival with not one, but two Schubertiade recitals!
👉 Schubertiade Lunchtime Opening Recital with @josephmittelstadt and Oliver Casanovas Nuevo
📅 Sunday 14 April, 1:00pm
🎟️ £15, £13 (concessions), FREE (under 30s / students)
👉 Schubertiade 20th Anniversary Gala Recital with Roderick Williams, @rogervignoles, Joseph Middleton and our Young Artists
📅 Sunday 14 April, 7:30pm
🎟️ £25, £23 (concessions), FREE (under 30s / students)
Head to our bio to book your tickets.
Next week, we are so excited to bring you the world premiere performance of Punjabi Proverbs by @cherylhoad, featuring Nina Kanter - soprano; @operawala - baritone; and @kevalshahpiano - piano. This is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate cross cultural art and experience something special ✨
📅 Tuesday 16 April 2024, 7:30pm
📍 192 Chapeltown Road, Leeds
🎟️ Only £5 / FREE for under 30’s/students
🍴 Refreshments will be available
Book your tickets now - link in bio.
Pre-concert talk with Tansy Davies
Tansy Davies possesses one of the most personal voices in composition today. Embracing a wide range of influences – from the classical avant-garde to funk and experimental rock – her vital, visceral music bridges the spiritual and political, the man-made and the natural.
In this pre-concert talk, Davies introduces her new song cycle, especially commissioned for this 20th-anniversary Festival.
Pre-concert Talk with Dr George Kennaway
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.
Pre-concert talk with Prof. Barbara Kelly
Head of School and Professor of Music at the University of Leeds, Barbara Kelly gives an enlightening introduction to this evening’s recital. A leading expert on French music between 1870 and 1939, Kelly has published widely on Debussy, Ravel and Les Six and will provide context and insight to the programme to follow.
Composers & Poets Forum Showcase: ‘A Leeds Songbook’
A continuation of the acclaimed 2023 ‘Leeds Songbook’ project, our Composers & Poets Forum adds further creative contributions to Leeds Lieder’s song collection. Stories about the people of Leeds, told in poems by the people of Leeds, set to music by composers brought to Leeds and performed by our Leeds Lieder Young Artists. Firmly rooted in the locality, our songbook will draw many threads across disciplines. These Forums have been built on collaborations made over the Spring and workshops during the Festival. Come and hear the fruits of their labours in today’s exciting showcase!
We are delighted to welcome @benjaminapplbaritone and @sholto.kynoch to perform a recital that explores the silences between the notes. A perfect way to close the 20th anniversary of Leeds Lieder Festival!
📅 Sunday 21 April, 7:30pm
🎟️ £25 (standard), £23 (concessions), FREE (under 30s / students)
🔗 Link in bio
Don’t miss Christopher Glynn (@chrisglynn00), Harriet Burns (harriet_burns_), Nick Pritchard and Kate Wakeling (kate_wakeling) for Schumann’s song cycle Myrtles at #LLF24
📅 Saturday 20 April, 1:00pm
📍 @howardassemblyroom
🎟️ £15, £13 (concessions), FREE (under 30s / students)
Follow the link in our bio to secure your tickets now.
We are so excited to welcome Roderick Williams and @rogervignoles alongside @nikolahillebrand, @josephmittelstadt and the Leeds Lieder Young Artists for the Schubertiade 20th Anniversary Gala Recital.
📅 Sunday 14 April, 7:30 pm
📍 The Venue, @leedsconservatoireevents
🎟️ £25, £23 (concessions), FREE (under 30s / students)
This is not one to be missed!
Here is Ema Nikolovska delighting Leeds Lieder audiences in 2021 performing Errollyn Wallen’s ‘about here’. We are thrilled to welcome her back to perform – with Joseph Middleton – a newly-commissioned song cycle by Tansy Davies, The Ice Core Sample Says.
📅 Saturday 20 April, 7:30 pm
📍 Howard Assembly Room
🎟️ £25, £23 (concessions), FREE (U30/students)
🔗 Link in bio
