The Diocese of Leeds has the largest church programme of choral music for young people in the United Kingdom.
Our Choral Directors work with some 3500 children weekly (over 100 groups across 53 schools), returning to their bases to run our elite choirs; 6 boys’ choirs, 6 girls’ choirs, 5 mixed children’s choirs, 2 youth choirs, 3 university choirs and an adult choir, all drawing their membership from our school sessions. more »
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The Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme is the largest church programme of choral music for children and young people in the UK, currently enabling 2,500 children to access high quality weekly singing sessions. It is also a significant national youth programme.
The Schools Singing
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On Sunday 24 November the Cathedral Boys Choir travelled to St Joseph's Church in Pontefract to sing Sunday Mass for the feast of Christ the King.
St Joseph's Church is the oldest church in the Diocese and was built in 1806 before the Catholic Emancipation of 1829. It replaced the mission
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Two organ projects were recently completed in the Diocese of Leeds. The organ builder Peter Collins was chosen to build a new instrument for St Joseph's Church in Wetherby and the Slovenian firm Anton Skrabl relocated and restored a Victorian instrument in St William's in Bradford.
St.
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Five star review in The Listener (Autumn 2013) - "I'm in love immediately and spontaneously in the peculiar music of choice-Uzbeks. One of the best organ music recordings I've heard so far this year. He (Saunders), in the UK has an excellent reputation... this album is his debut on the
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Choristers from the Huddersfield Boys and Girls Choirs joined with Wakefield Cathedral Choirs in a special service of Vespers at St Patrick's Church. The Huddersfield Boys and Girls Choirs (part of the Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme) made up a large majority of the children gaining
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The music department newsletter for Autumn 2013 is now available as a download. It contains details of recent and forthcoming events together with information about the next broadcasts and CD releases. Also included is details of new schools joining the singing programme and a feature on two
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To join the choirs and for all other
enquiries please contact:
Music Administrator
Leeds Cathedral
Great George Street
Leeds LS2 8BE
Tel: 0113 244 8634
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