“Leeds Baroque Orchestra is a national treasure and one that I whole-heartedly support"  - Dame Evelyn Glennie

Leeds Baroque   directed by Peter Holman 
Honorary Patron - Sir Alan Langlands:  Musical Director - Peter Holman MBE:  Chorus Master - Clive McClelland

Happy Birthday Leeds Baroque! 2000 -2020
Join us as we celebrate twety years of period instrument performances. Details of our extended Anniversary Programme can be found   HERE

Supported by Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society
Concert & Events Diary 2020

Purcell and Handel::
Music for Great Occasions
Sunday 8 March 3.00pm
Pre-concert talk at 2.00pm :
Dr Alan Howard
(Selwyn College, Cambridge)
As it was in the beginning’:
Compositional Artifice in Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate in D
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of leeds

Our March concert brings together three great works by Henry Purcell and Handel written for great occasions in Restoration London. Handel’s ‘Eternal source of light divine’ (with the haunting opening solo, featured at the recent royal wedding) is a superb response to Purcell’s music, written for Queen Anne in 1713. Purcell’s Te Deum and Jubilate, first heard on St Cecilia’s day in 1694, was the work that kept his memory alive in the eighteenth century. Purcell’s Yorkshire Feast Song, written to entertain Yorkshire exiles at a London dinner in 1690, is the greatest musical celebration of things Yorkshire.

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2020 sees our 20th Anniversary Season - could you support one of our projects by participating in our Angels Scheme?
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Leeds Baroque Choir & Orchestra is a period instrument performance group directed by Peter Holman. We specialise in music of the 17th and 18th centuries and give 3 or 4 concerts a year.  Find out more...

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Artists profile -
Daniel Auchincloss

Canadian tenor Daniel Auchincloss studied at the University of Toronto and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Since then he has performed with many important ensembles and orchestras and has been a regular guest with Leeds Baroque.

Read more about hime HERE
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Grant award Success
We are delighted to announce that Leeds Baroque have been awarded a grant by Leeds Philosphical and Literary Society to support their 20th Anniversary Concert Season.
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