Choirs in Yorkshire
With a huge range of opportunities in Leeds, Bradford, Keighley, Huddersfield, Halifax, Wakefield and Pontefract, our choirs offer the very best in musical training and enjoyment for children and young people.
Leeds International Organ Festival
Every year during May, June and July, we bring together some of the world’s leading performers and teachers in a dazzling variety of public concerts and support for organ students in educational workshops.
Cathedral Music
Leeds Cathedral’s six choirs are amongst the finest in the UK with numerous recordings and BBC broadcasts. Places are available for children aged 7-18 and scholarships for university students in conducting and organ.
Upcoming Events
What a sound! Well done team @DOLMusic! https://t.co/ESgaOw2gGh
Rehearsals are underway for today's Boys' Choirs Festival...a stunning sound in Langlais' Messe d'Escalquens. All of the young singers have come through our classroom-based Schools Singing Programme.
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We were thrilled to welcome @jamesmacm to Leeds Cathedral this evening, where we enjoyed his fascinating discussion with @Opera_North’s Richard Mantle. Fantastic singing from @DOLMusic Cathedral Girls and @ndcchoir beforehand, too!
2Next Tuesday our wonderful @DOLMusic Leeds Cathedral Girls' Choir are joined by @ndcchoir for Vespers, Mass (Sermisy, Victoria, Palestrina) and a short concert prior to a fascinating talk from @jamesmacm and RIchard Mantle of @Opera_North - concert and talk only £5 from @LeedsIOF
A privilege and responsibility to work for @DOLMusic where a superb cathedral choir is just part of a sustained system of classroom singing...last night I got to step back and listen as Notre Dame students conducted, an amazing sound from our Girls' Choir and School Scholars!
Cathedral Organist David Pipe’s recording of organ music by Huw Morgan is now available from Firehead Editions (fireheadeditions.com/invocations)
Recorded on the stunning organ of Bridlington Priory, this CD offers a journey through Morgan’s fascinating and inventive sound world.
Rehearsals are underway for today's Boys' Choirs Festival - here Choral Director Lucy Appleyard directs them in Langlais' Messe d'Escalquens.
Today at Leeds Cathedral:
Corpus Christi
9.30 am Mass (Cantor)
11 am Solemn Mass (Huddersfield, Bradford, BKCAT, LTC and Cathedral Boys Choirs and Schools Scholars):
Messe d'Escalquens, Langlais (K, G, S, A)
Surrexit de tumulo, Las Hueglas Codex
Cuncti simus concanentes, Llibre vermell
Organ: Te Deum, Langlais
2.30 pm Boys' Choir Festival Concert
5 pm Novena Novena
Singers wanted for Handel’s Messiah Concert in Ripon, Saturday 6th July. Anyone interested in singing should e-mail Laurence at: northernphilorch@gmail.com
More information can be found at: www.dioceseofleeds.org.uk/raising-the-roof-in-ripon/
Raising the Roof in Ripon | Diocese of Leeds
Singers are being sought to ‘raise the roof’ in Ripon, for a special ‘Come and Sing Handel’s Messiah’ at St Wilfrid’s Catholic Church. This event, on Saturday July 6, is open to everyone: particularly to all singers familiar with Handel’s masterpiece and who would like to join the chor...We enjoyed a superb Diocesan Girls' Choir Festival at the weekend, with our special guests the Notre Dame Children's Choir, directed by Dr Mark Doerries. Over 120 young singers gave a fabulous performance, from medieval chants and songs to Elgar. This Sunday it's the turn of our boys' choirs - do come and hear them sing for Solemn Mass at 11am and give a joint performance at 2.30pm.