Events
University of Leeds International Concert Series - Spring Season 2025
University of Leeds International Concert Series announces its Spring Season 2025, starting on Friday 31st January.
United in Music: Celebrating Black Music
The School of Music presents United in Music 7–9 May. Enjoy African percussion, performances from students and local groups, and Caribbean-inspired drinks and snacks.
Choral Music at Rush Hour
Join Clothworkers Consort of Leeds to finish off your week and the term with a concert of a capella choral music.
The Purcell Compendium - book launch
The book launch marked the publication by the Boydell Press of The Purcell Compendium by Emeritus Professor Peter Holman and Professor Bryan White from the School of Music.
Art Song Concert: Lucy Farrimond & Justine Gormley
Join soprano Lucy Farrimond and pianist Justine Gormley for an evocative lunchtime of English song...
Come Play With Me: tinyumbrellas | Alice Kim | Isaac Malibu
An evening of music featuring artists from Come Play With Me. Think lo-fi beats, singer-songwriter vibes, soul, pop, and indie-folk.
Janice Burns & Jon Doran | Folk Duo
Janice Burns & Jon Doran are an award-winning Anglo-Scottish duo who came together after discovering a shared love of traditional music.
Tom Harris ft. Lucy-Anne Daniels & Anna Chandler-King
Tom Harris is a northern songwriter and pianist with a passion for community music making. Harris’ original music explores queerness, mental health, acceptance, and joy...
Charlie Cooper & The CCs
Charlie Cooper writes vintage soul, updated perfectly, sung with deep and husky soul-pipes!
Love is a Spectrum: Neil Balfour (baritone) & Jonathan Drummond (piano)
Love is a Spectrum is an intimate look at love and how it can feel so unique for different people, cultures, genders, sexualities and neurodivergences.
Under the Cover of Night | Opera cabaret
Under the Cover of Night tells a story from sunset to early morning, exploring the emotions and tribulations that can happen under the cover of darkness, before the day begins anew.
CFP: Workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’
The School of Music, University of Leeds is pleased to announce a workshop on ‘Keywords for the Analysis of Modern East Asian Music’, to be held on Thursday 17 July 2025.
Filkin's Drift | Folk Duo
Filkin's Drift reimagine traditional melodies through pizzicato grooves, intricate guitar tunes, and boundless improvisation.
A re-evaluation of approaches to understanding musicality in autism
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
SYNTHposium
Symposium for those who share a common interest in the history, design, or musical practice of synthesizers.
Debussy at the Art Independent Bookshop (1892–1895)
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
PUBLIC LECTURE: Aural Diversity and its Consequences for Music
The lecture discusses how the concept of Aural Diversity can help us better understand the differences in hearing experience which affect the ways in which music is created, performed, and perceived.
How does music shape imagination?
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Language Taster Sessions
Join us for a series of language taster sessions. Learn a few new phrases and meet speakers of the language. All levels welcome - no prior knowledge of the languages is required.
TMX: Dance Music Matters - How Can Research Support the Future of Nightlife
In recent years, within the fields of musicology and music psychology, there has been increasing research suggesting the multifaceted benefits of engaging in dance music culture.
Music and the Arts in France – 1925: Anniversaries and Confluences
Music and the Arts in France – 1925 is an international Conference and Festival that takes 1925 as the confluence for exploring key composers for whom it was a significant date.
Book launch: Debussy Studies 2
Join us for the book launch of Debussy studies 2, edited by Barbara L. Kelly (University of Leeds) and David J. Code (University of Glasgow).
Ailish Tynan (soprano) & Joseph Middleton (piano) | Art Song
Ailish Tynan and Joseph Middleton perform music including Ravel's Sheherazade, Poulenc La courte paille, and songs by Satie and Rosenthal.
Vocal Masterclass with Dame Felicity Lott
Dame Felicity Lott leads a masterclass with students of the Royal Northern College of Music and Leeds Song Young Artists.
Barriers and pathways: rethinking access in music education and composition
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
How management works in the music industry
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Uncomposing Gaia: new music, sound art, and the limits of non/life
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
Idiom, genre, and whiteness in Dutch improvised music and postcolonial jazz
Part of the Music Research Seminar Series 2025-26
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