Audience Review: A wonderful rendition of this too rarely performed work (Charpentier David et Jonathas). The orchestra were excellent and the chorus accomplished as ever, with many of their members taking solo parts. The main characters were superb, especially Stuart O'Hara in the role of Saul"
March 2019.
“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

Concert & Events Diary 2020

Purcell and Handel::
Music for Great Occasions
 with Dan Auchincloss (tenor) , Stuart O’Hara (baritone) and Crispian Steele Perkins (trumpet)

Sunday 8 March 3.00pm
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, University of leeds

The year 2020 sees the 20th anniversary of the formation of Leeds Baroque. We mark this milestone in the organisations development with an expanded programme of events and opportunities to take our work further afield. The full season programme will be announced in November – see www.leedsbaroque.org
For our opening concert of the season, Crispian Steele-Perkins joins us again with another Leeds Baroque favourite, tenor Dan Auchincloss in a suitable celebratory programme that includes a nod to our Yorkshire heritage!
 
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.

Tickets available in the New Year

Alumni News - Congratulations to: Morgana Warren-Jones &
Bethany Horak-Hallett

Bethany (pictured L) joins the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment's 'Rising Stars of the Enlightement' programme. OAE's singers scheme for talented, emerging artists, giving participants oportunities to perform regularly with the Orchestra on both the national and international stage.
 Morgana (Pictured R), recently awarded a place at the Glyndebourne Academy 2019 with seven other singers. During the academy programme participants work intensively with leading opera professionals and have an opportunity to perform at Glyndebourne in front of an invited audience in an informal concert at the end of the programme.

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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 - Crispian Steele Perkins

Crispian is one of the world's best known trumpet soloists, renowned for the quality of his performances and his wide-ranging musical experience. He has been a regular guest over the years with Leeds Baroque and will be joining us for our Timpani launch concert on 27 October and again in March 2020.

Read more about hime HERE

Video Link to his interview with an American Radio Statio - entertaining!
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We spent a weekend recording audio samples for the website  with recording engineer Colin Bradburne.
Thanks to generous grants from the Friends of Leeds Baroque and Leeds Philosophical & Literary Society we now have examples of our repertoire on line.

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