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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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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Are you aged between 13 and 18?
Do you enjoy singing?
Do you attend a Catholic school, college or church?
Would you like to meet for a fun weekend of singing with other teenagers from across the Diocese?
If so, then enrol for a place on our first singing weekend in
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Writing in this months Classical Music Magazine, Ann Elise Smoot remarks:
"To be honest, when I moved to England 15 years ago, if I had been given three guesses to name the urban cathedral in the UK which would eventually establish a music and outreach programme so huge that it
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Dewsbury Town Hall was the venue for the Cathedral Choirs' performance of Vivaldi's Gloria and Bach's Christmas Oratorio on the 18th December. This was in fact the third performance the choirs had given of these works during December, the others being at the Advent Carol Service and the Leeds
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Following the success of broadcasting four hundred young singers from Bradford Catholic Schools in 2007 on BBC 1 flagship religion programme ‘Songs of Praise,' the BBC have once again returned to Bradford, this time to record two programmes for BBC Radio 2.
Four hundred children were
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This year, the Cathedral Boys' and Adult Choirs will sing the famous musical setting of the Requiem Mass by Gabriel Fauré. This takes place at 5.30pm on All Souls Day, Monday 3rd November. It will be sung as part of the liturgy of the evening mass.
The treble
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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
Email: click here