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This Sunday 28th February at 4.15pm the Diocese of Leeds Music Department are holding a ‘Boys Make Noise!’ singing workshop on Zoom. This is for boys aged 6-11 from Diocesan primary schools and parishes. A great lockdown activity for boys who may be bored at home: 45 minutes of warm ups, songs and musical games. To receive the online meeting link please register in advance by contacting office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk

The Diocese of Leeds Music are currently recruiting for a number of positions to support their Schools Singing Programme and Keyboard Studies Programme.

Click here for further information about the vacancies.

Click here for the application form.

The closing date for applications is 22 February 2021.

This Sunday 10th January, Leeds Cathedral Organist, David Pipe performs Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur to launch the 2021 Leeds International Organ Festival.

Click here to access this online event which will be live-streamed at 7 pm.

Click here to enjoy the final recital of the term from Gordon Stewart at Bradford Cathedral. His programme includes:

Gordon’s programme:

Noel Rawsthorne – Prelude on Yorkshire

Louis-Claude Daquin (arr Dupré) – Noël X Grand Jeu et Duo

James Biery – Prelude on Patapan

Alfred Hollins – Christmas Cradle Song

Robert Cockroft – A Good King Chills out for Spring

Alexandre Guilmant – Noël Écossais

Clifton Hughes – Dance Variations on Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Aaron Shows – Prelude on the Wexford Carol Aaron Shows – Prelude on Joy to the World

Two manual and pedal pipe organ available from St Alban’s Church, Lakenham. Contact Jason jason.baldry@stn.org.uk for further information.

Southwell Minster are advertising for an organ scholar. For further details please click here. The deadline for applications is Monday 18 January 2021.

The Cathedral’s Assistant Director of Music, Graham Thorpe will play in the recital on Wednesday 25 November at 12.30pm. The recital is only available online – click here to access the event.

Graham’s programme:

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Toccata in F, BWV 540

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707)
Praeludium in D, BuxWV 139

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Nun komm der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659

Charles-Marie Widor (1844 – 1937)
Movements from Bach’s Memento Aria

Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) arr. G. Thorpe (b. 1993)
Sicilienne from Pelléas et Mélisande, op. 80

Charles-Marie Widor (1844-1937)
Toccata from Symphony 5, Op. 42

The recitals are free of charge and the cathedral rely on donations to keep them going (especially during these difficult times). Theirpolicy is “pay as you feel” and you can donate at the following here.

This pre-recorded event will be available on the YDOA YouTube channel at the following link www.ydoa.co.uk/youtube at 7.30pm.

The event is a talk entitled Pensée d’automne (Contemplation of Autumn), in which JSW presents some of the organ music of the composer, Joseph Jongen, in a lecture recital. A wide range of organs can be heard, including the giant instrument in Wanamaker’s in Philadelphia and that of the Brussels Conservatory played by Jongen himself in 1931. 

A new book by Nicholas Thistlethwaite marks the restoration of the Minster’s organ. The book documents the earliest reference to “a pair of organs” in 1236 and describes other instruments right through to the present day. It will be published in Spring 2021 at a retail price of £30. It can be pre-ordered now with a £5 saving by emailing HLFGlass@yorkminster.org. Early subscribers can also have their name inscribed in the book.