For fans of the hit Netflix series Bridgerton, step into the world of Regency-era romance with Candlelight: The Best of Bridgerton on Strings.
Created in collaboration with Netflix, Shondaland, and Fever, this one-of-a-kind experience will transform the with a captivating candlelit ambiance and breathtaking floral displays.
Celebrate love this Valentine’s Day with Candlelight: Valentine's Day Special, featuring favourite soundtracks from romantic classics like Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Romeo and Juliet, and other heartfelt melodies.
This intimate concert series offers a perfect way to express love through music.
William Jack is an Australian multi-style cellist and songwriter, based in London. He is best known for incorporating his jazz guitar background into an unconventional style of cello playing, with a passion for breaking boundaries between genres and cultures. His music transitions seamlessly from virtuosic folk and bluegrass compositions, to non-Western sound worlds.
An opportunity to hear work by students on solo performance courses in the School of Music.
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A concert of premieres with a memorial performance of Sandy Goehr's Manere for clarinet and violin. The programme features new pieces by students of the School of Music and an exciting premiere of a piece written especially for LSTwo by Mexican composer Alex Garcés.
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This new duo brings together the talents of celebrated pianist and composer Gwilym Simcock and rising star saxophonist and composer Emma Rawicz. Emma and Gwilym will be performing music from their exciting upcoming duo release Big Visit including original works and arrangements of a variety of other music from the Great American Songbook to Stevie Wonder!
Students perform Brahms’ seven movement large-scale chorus work, Ein deutsches Requiem.
Music direction by Dr Clive McClelland. Clive specialises in topic theory, and is an associate professor. He was previously the chair of the Schubert Institute and chorus master of Leeds Baroque.
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Nicola Matteis - Passagio Rotto
Johann Paul von Westhoff - Suite for Solo Violin in A Major
Robert de Visée - Suite for violin and lute in G Major
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber - Passacaglia
Henry Purcell - Prelude in G minor
Henry Eccles - A New Division upon the Ground Bass of John come kiss me
Nicola Matteis - a selection from Ayres for the Violin
Both performers are musicians of critical acclaim, and work extensively throughout the UK and abroad both as soloists and chamber musicians.
This year's orchestral project continues the recent collaborations between the School of Music at the University of Leeds and the Leeds Conservatoire.
The programme, conducted by Ben Crick, begins with a rare performance of Lili Boulanger's 'D'un matin de printemps' followed by an equally rare performance of Marie Jaëll's cello concerto with guest soloist Valerie Welbanks. We conclude with a performance of Schubert's 8th symphony, 'The unfinished'.
The score of the Cello Concerto by Marie Jaëll is published by Éditions Sébastien Troester, Paris
Students will perform a collection of traditional music, contemporary repertoire and new pieces on the School of Music’s Javanese Gamelan.
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