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The full programme for the Summer Organ Festival is now available here.

IAO Festival, Edinburgh 22 – 26 July – details of the full programme and booking in formation can be found here.

Please see below for upcoming events and details of how to book:

• Girls Choir Festival
  19 June 2022, Leeds Cathedral
  11 am Mass and 2.30 pm Concert
  with special guests the Girls Choir of St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, Dublin
• Boys Choir Festival
  26 June 2022, Leeds Cathedral
  11 am Mass and 2.30 pm Concert
  includes the world premieres of special commissions by Anthony Gray and Daniel Justin
• Keyboard Studies Programme Pupils’ Concert
  3 July 2022, 3 pm, Leeds Cathedral
• Roxanna Panufnik ‘in conversation’ with Philip Moore
  5 July 2022, a 6.30 pm concert with Leeds Cathedral Choir in Leeds Cathedral, followed by an interview with the famous composer at 7.00 pm in Wheeler Hall

For more information about any of these events, please contact the Music Office at office@dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk.

St Mary’s Church, Burley in Wharfdale, are looking for an organist scholar to play for them on a Sunday morning. They are also looking for someone to play at their civic service on 5 June for the Queen’s Jubilee. If you are interested, please click here for contact details.

Please click here to see the programme for the above recital.

David Grealy, Leeds Cathedral’s new Assistant Organist, leads a class on improvisation, open to players of all ages and abilities. Click here to see more information.

St Andrews Organ Week is a long-established course for amateur and young organists of all abilities.  Participants enjoy a busy programme of daily one-to-one and group lessons, optional workshops (on improvisation, service playing and harmonium technique), lectures and concerts. This year for the first time, the course will be based in the Laidlaw Music Centre, taking advantage of the newly restored and rehomed T.C. Lewis organ of 1868 in the magnificent acoustic of the McPherson Recital Room. They are especially excited also to welcome Catalina Vicens from Bologna who will guide all participants through the basics of playing the Medieval organetto (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5qWsMzZdfs). 

The participants typically range from teenagers to those in their eighties all of whom share a passion for the organ.

Click here to read more information and for details on how to book.

We are pleased to share the details of the next recital series here.

Click here to access the information on upcoming recitals at King’s Lynn Minster. David Baker is playing in August.

Concert –

Date: Thursday 7^th April 2022, 7.30pm

Venue: Halifax Minster, HX1 1QL

Tickets: Available through Halifax Minster Event Bright & On the Door

Price: £5.00 pp

New Pop inspired Organ Work by Female Composer and Organist Dr Rebekah Okpoti “Anne Lister’s Organ Sonata” with Her Ensemble, the UK’s first Women and Non-binary String Orchestra.

Composed to bring to life the sound world of Anne Lister. Research into Anne’s diaries and social circle lead us to believe she played both Organs housed at the Minster. Funded by Arts Council England, Calderdale Council and Halifax Organ and Choral Academy.

This Performance will take place during the Anne Lister Birthday Week Festival 2022.