Choir and Orchestra

Musical Director:	Peter Holman
Orchestra Leader:	Judy Tarling
Chorus Master:	Clive McClelland

Welcome

Leeds Baroque is a period instrument performance group based in West Yorkshire. It is directed by Peter Holman (Professor of Historical Musicology in the University of Leeds), who is renowned as Director of the Parley of Instruments and Opera Restor’d).

Members are drawn from professional and non-professional players with students from the region’s music colleges. Free workshops given by leaders in the field of baroque performance practice provide training, and the funds available are used to enable members of the orchestra to perform concerts with internationally renowned soloists.

Over the last two seasons (2008–9 and 2007–8), Leeds Baroque performed at the University of Leeds, the National Centre for Early Music, York, the Georgian Theatre, Richmond, the Swaledale Festival and the Hexham Festival.

Calendar, 2009–10

Sunday 15th November 2009

Haydn: The Creation

Great Hall, University of Leeds

Sunday 28th February 2010

J.S. Bach: Magnificat, Cantatas 11 & 34

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, School of Music, University of Leeds

Sunday 20th June 2010

Leeds Baroque 10th Anniversary Concert

Purcell: The Indian Queen

Salt’s Mill, Saltaire

For ticket information, please visit the Concerts page.