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Wednesday 20th May saw a packed St George's Hall in Bradford celebrate five years of the Bradford Youth Choir singing programme. Formed in 2004 through a unique partnership between the Catholic secondary schools of Bradford and Keighley and the Diocese of Leeds, the programme has grown into the largest faith based singing programme in the country, with over 1000 children participating in singing sessions each week.
Over 250 children took to the stage of St George's hall to sing a wide ranging programme of music, sacred and secular, ancient and modern. Also featured was soprano Phillippa Cairns, a founder member of the Bradford Youth Choir, and now a student at Birmingham Conservatoire.
Particular highlights of the evening included the Bradford Boys' Choir who sang selections from their upcoming tour to Germany (Franck and Haydn) and the Bradford Girls' Choir, who will this summer represent the city of Bradford in the National Festival of Music for
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May 3rd,2009- Boys' Choir Festival
Sunday 3rd May saw a joint concert between three of the diocese's four boys choirs at Leeds Cathedral. The Cathedral boys' choir and the Bradford and Huddersfield boys' choirs came together for an exciting performance of Vaughan Williams' Let All the World, and motets by Elgar, Andriessen
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March 11th,2009- Cathedral Choir School Announced
There was a special concert at the Holy Rosary and St Anne's School, Chapeltown on Wednesday March 4th and as usual the children sang beautifully. The reason for the concert was to announce that the school wishes to become a Choir School.
The school is a multi-cultured school. 87% of
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May 7th,2009- Association British Choral Directors
Writing in MasterSinger, the magazine of the Association of British Choral Directors, Christopher Johns states:
"Until I saw my present job advertised, I was completely ignorant of the existence of the Diocese of Leeds and certainly had not heard anything about any musical
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February 25th,2009- New recording from Herald AV
Herald AV Recordings will release the "Catholic Collection II" on the 25th February 2009. The CD's launch weekend will follow on the 7th and 8th of March at Leeds Cathedral, where the disc will be available at £10 for these two days only. It will usually
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Mrs Claudine Tat
Music Administrator
Leeds Cathedral
Great George Street
Leeds LS2 8BE
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