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.

In the 2007–8 season, Leeds Baroque performed at the University of Leeds, the National Centre for Early Music, York, the Georgian Theatre, Richmond, and the Hexham Festival.

Next performance:

Sunday 14th June 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

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

Purcell and Handel: A Celebration

Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra, Directed by Peter Holman
Chorus Master Clive McClelland

Celebrating two notable anniversaries, the programme will include:
Handel: Dixit Dominus in G minor, HWV232 (1707)
Henry Purcell: Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem, Z46 (1689).

Tickets: £12; adult concessions £10; full time students and young people £3; available from Friends of Leeds Baroque (telephone: 0113 226 7564) and at the door.

Alternatively, to buy tickets for this concert online, please choose from the following list. (The link will redirect you to the School of Music’s secure on-line booking service at the University of Leeds.)