Choral Scholarships
Our choral scholarships offer superb opportunities for ambitious students looking to develop a range of professional-level musical skills. The Cathedral Choir – acknowledged as one of the finest in the country – sings daily services, with the Choral Scholars singing on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and Sunday mornings.
Choral Scholar Timetable:
Tuesday – 4.30-6pm : Rehearsal, Vespers and Mass
Wednesday – 4.30-6pm : Rehearsal, Vespers and Mass
Sunday – 10-1pm : Rehearsal, Mass and scholars’ rehearsal.
Click here for the choral scholarship flyer.
‘I’d never really sung much early music before, so to come to a choir where Josquin, Tallis and Monteverdi are part of the diet has been a revelation. My sight-singing and choral confidence has improved beyond measure and I’ve subsequently started coaching some of the choristers in the wider programme.’ TD, Choral Scholar
Organ & Conducting Scholarships
As well as our Choral Scholarships we have a range of opportunities available, from organ playing to choral conducting and youth choir leadership. These scholarships give budding musicians the opportunity to develop specific skills through work experience not offered in Higher Education, enabling them to launch performing careers in classical choral music. Clear progression routes, expert tuition and mentoring, invaluable contacts and regular performances (including BBC broadcasts, the Leeds International Organ Festival and joint concerts with the Gabrieli Consort) make these scholarships an invaluable and unparalleled experience.
To apply for our scholarships contact:
office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk / 0113 244 8634
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...'We constantly strive for the revealing of the extraordinary potential and hope contained within the children we work with. they deserve the very best we can bring them.'
Here's to another great term of singing with our schools and choirs!
...'Classical choral music is all too often a culturally monolithic bastion of privilege - the children we work with deserve the riches of this world too; we cannot allow the improvement of access to be undermined...'
Our lovely Keighley Junior Choir!
In preparation for their BBC One broadcast of Christmas Day Mass 30 members of our Bradford Catholic Youth Choir are undertaking a choir development tour to Rome at the start of November this year. To ensure this experience is accessible and affordable for all choir members we are seeking support from a range of Trusts, Foundations, corporate partners and individual donors. Any support you are able to give, however small or big will make a huge difference.
www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/bcycrometour?utm_term=q6mBvBZEp
Help raise £3000 to support Bradford Catholic Youth Choir's Development Tour to Rome this November.
Weʼre raising money to support Bradford Catholic Youth Choir's Development Tour to Rome this November.. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.Worth up to £2,000 a year, university students local to Leeds have the opportunity to sing with one of the country’s finest cathedral choirs. With clear progression routes, expert mentoring and regular performances (including BBC broadcasts, the Leeds International Organ Festival and joint concerts with the Gabrieli Consort) these scholarships are an invaluable and unparalleled experience.
Leeds Cathedral now has scholarships available for all voice parts from September 2019. To apply contact: office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk
Music education 'creates more well-rounded people'
Music education 'creates more well-rounded people'
Jazz star and presenter YolanDa Brown says politicians should appreciate the benefits of music education.Our Cathedral Choir School has featured in the Yorkshire Evening Post today. 2019 marks 10 years of the Choir School and we are delighted to have worked with so many talented children in Chapeltown. Our long term aim is to sustain the Cathedral Choir School into the foreseeable future, maintaining and developing musical, academic and community partnerships old and new; an achievable goal with the generous support of funders. All donations towards the Choir School make a real and measurable difference. To secure another brilliant 10 years, please consider supporting this project.
World class musician Sally Egan receives Leeds College of Music fellowship
An inspiring musician who has helped the Leeds Cathedral Choir School thrive has received a fellowship from the Leeds College of Music.Worth up to £2,000 a year, university students local to Leeds have the opportunity to sing with one of the country’s finest cathedral choirs. With clear progression routes, expert mentoring and regular performances (including BBC broadcasts, the Leeds International Organ Festival and joint concerts with the Gabrieli Consort) these scholarships are an invaluable and unparalleled experience. Leeds Cathedral now has scholarships available for all voice parts from September 2019.
To apply contact: office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk
www.dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/cathedral-scholarships/