by Jessica Shears | Feb 22, 2021 | Music
Thanks to funding from The Hamish Ogston Foundation, Diocese of Leeds Music is delighted to announce that it is now expanding its award-winning Schools Singing Programme across Yorkshire and replicating it in every Catholic diocese in the UK to create the National...
by Jessica Shears | Dec 14, 2020 | Music
Following the success of our Summer ‘Hymns at Home’ event, our team of Choral Directors are now working on the Christmas equivalent, ‘Carols at Home’. Many of us will be missing our traditional carol services this year, an essential part of the...
by Jessica Shears | Nov 19, 2020 | Music
Music-lovers amongst the Great Yorkshire Public have spoken – and have sung the praises of Diocese of Leeds’s Schools Singing Programme, as for the first time ever, the Royal Philharmonic Society allowed the public to nominate musicians who had inspired them during...
by Jessica Shears | Jul 16, 2020 | Music
This Sunday (19th July) at 8:10am, the BBC Radio 4 Sunday Worship programme features hymns and motets from CDs recorded by the Leeds Diocesan Choirs. Find a full list of our recordings here. During the current lockdown, please consider supporting our young singers and...
by Jessica Shears | Jul 7, 2020 | Music
Our Director of the Schools Singing Programme Tom Leech writes for the Incorporated Society of Musicians blog – how we will not let the pandemic destroy the musical futures of the children we work with and how we must not let choral/classical music become even...
by Jessica Shears | Jul 6, 2020 | Music
We are proud to present ‘Hymns at Home: One Diocese, Many Voices’ – a celebration of the hard work our choir members, instrumental pupils, school communities and staff have put in to keep making music during lockdown. On Sunday 12th July at 3pm we...
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