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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On BBC 2 tonight, choirmaster Gareth Malone returned with a follow up series to 'The Choir'. Basing himself at a boys' school in Leicester, Gareth goes about building a boys' choir from scratch: 'The Choir: Boys Don't Sing'
Readers may be interested to know that here
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The January/ February edition of Choir & Organ features an article on music in the Diocese of Leeds as part of their "Cantus in Choro" series. Written by John Rowntree, organist of Douai Abbey the article is entitled 'Laying Solid Foundations'.
This article gives a really
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Click here to read an article by Abigail Frymann entitled 'Sing choirs of schoolkids' which appeared in The Tablet.
The article begins:
The Diocese of Leeds is developing a marvelous program in which the cathedral's music staff are reaching out to schools to give them
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BYC singing school Our Lady of Victories in Keighley has gone were no other BYC school has gone before! They have created their very own radio station - Radio OLV!
Each Friday afternoon the whole school sits listening intently to the weeks program, presented and produced by the pupils More>>
From this term onwards, the Bradford Boys' Choir will have a doctor's appointment at St Bede's School from 4-5pm every Thursday. Not because they're ill, but because their director, Christopher Johns, has been awarded a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Durham University, where he studied More>>
The Lunchtime concert series returns for the Spring Term 2008 with a varied music programme. Details are as follows:-
Benjamin Saunders (Leeds Cathedral)
Thursday 31 January 1.10pm
Music by Langlais, Dupré & Hollins
Simon Lindley (Leeds Parish Church)
Thursday 7
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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