Events

University of Leeds International Concert Series announces its Autumn 2024 Season including classical, jazz, and folk.

Renata Suchowiejko (Jagiellonian University) will join us to present on ‘Polish Music and Musicians in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s’

The Marsyas Trio performs new works by current and outgoing composition students: Ed Cooper, Niki Zodhi, Ben Finlay, and James Evans.

This talk zooms in on the ways transnational fans have engaged with K-pop and asks what transformative potentials have been harnessed and amplified through their fan engagements

Terra Invisus is a contemporary music trio, dedicated to pushing musical and sonic boundaries through free improvisation, and the performance of new commissions and contemporary works.

Sarah Price (University of Liverpool) will join us to present on ‘Audiences for classical music: synthesising knowledge and new avenues for research’

Baritone James Newby, former BBC New Generation Artist and Rising Star of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, joins renowned pianist, Joseph Middleton for a concert of maritime inspired song.

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Toby Bennett (University of Westminster)) will join us to present on ‘Musicking the organisation: Corporate life in the digital music industry’

Described by International Piano as “one of today’s most impeccably musical pianists”, we are delighted to welcome back Leon McCawley to the University.

Sean Williams (The Open University) will join us to present on their recent work

University of Leeds International Concert Series announces its Spring Season 2025, starting on Friday 31st January.

Christopher Fox (University of York) will join us to present on ‘Dots, lines, squiggles and words: what's the point of notation?’

Public lecture by Dr Scott McLaughlin presenting his research on new approaches to performing/composing with the clarinet

Anna Glew (University of Liverpool) will join us to present on 'Ukrainian popular music after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion: narrating trauma in times of war'

Matthew Pritchard’s new book provides a new take on Romantic thought about music and its contemporary significance.

Carlo Cenciarelli (Cardiff University) will join us to present on ‘Spectacular Silence and the Ends of Moviegoing: The Cinema as A Quiet Place (ca. 2021)’

Katalin Koltai (Royal Academy of Music) will join us to present on 'Open Frets Guitar: Transforming Guitar Textures in Arrangements and New Music'

The musical collections of the University Libraries, Leeds Central Library and Leeds City Museum are rich in materials but the fragmented nature of their holdings has obscured their significance.

Ian Sapiro (School of Music, University of Leeds) will present a public lecture entitled 'I Got Rhythm, I Got (Some) Music: Reconstructing Musicals as Critical Editions'

Join Clothworkers Consort of Leeds to finish off your week and the term with a concert of a capella choral music.