“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.

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

Covid-19 Concerts update

The  announcement made by the prime minister  (23/03.2020)  will probably make this news almost redundant – but we wanted to contact all our Friends, audience and supporters to confirm the sad, but inevitable decision we have made to cancel our summer concert programme.

The concerts on June 6 at NCEM and on June 28 at Leyburn will now not take place. We hope however that these events are merely postponed and that we can fit them in to future seasons.
For those of you who had already booked for the concert at NCEM, their box office will sort out arrangements for ticket
re-funds etc.

Be assured that during this enforced interregnum the Leeds Baroque management team will continue to plan the forthcoming season so there will be a wonderful programme to look forward to in 2021.

The choir and instrumentalists will be dutifully practising their scales and some of the trickier corners of Messiah!
We will keep you up-to-date with our plans as the situation develops, but in the meantime, keep safe and well.
Best wishes,
Jillian (Administrator),
Bryan (Chair, Management committee)
and the Leeds Baroque committee.
 

Next Event:
To be confirmed  subject to the Covid-19 situation

Sunday 25 October 2020, 3.00 p.m.
Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, the University of Leeds LS2 9JT

Pre-concert talk 2:00pm: Dr David Vickers.

Handel: Messiah
Leeds Baroque soloists, Choir and Orchestra, directed by Peter Holman
 
Messiah, the first work performed by Leeds Baroque, is a fitting conclusion to our 20th anniversary season. For this very special performance we welcome back some of our colleagues who have gone on from Leeds to make exciting professional careers. Peter Holman has chosen the fast-moving and dramatic version of the oratorio that Handel settled on in the 1750s, when he gave it annually to support the Foundling Hospital in London; it includes the rarely heard and dramatic soprano version of ‘But who may abide’, used at the Foundling Hospital in 1754.

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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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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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Music Matters on Saturday 28 March BBC Radio 3
Our musical director Peter Holman has just recorded  an  interview with Tom Service (via Skype!) about  his new book Before the Baton. He tells us it was a slightly weird experience, but they managed to make the technology work. It will be broadcast in Music Matters on Saturday 28 March on BBC Radio 3, at 11.45, with a repeat on Monday 30 March at 22.00.
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