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Lunchtime Organ Music concerts
Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music series, Mondays at 1.15pm from September to April, is hosted by Leeds Cathedral during Leeds Town Hall’s refurbishment. All recitals are recorded live in concert. Once posted online, recordings remain available to watch on our website and YouTube channel for 30 days unless otherwise requested. Find out how you can support our free lunchtime concerts.
Mon 9 March, Leeds Cathedral
Benjamin Saunders
Benjamin Saunders's recital features a major work by Georgi Mushel, the Soviet composer who became fascinated by the culture of his adopted central Asian home, and begins with his own arrangement of Benjamin Britten’s Playful Pizzicato.
This concert is available to watch online until Sunday 12 April.
Mon 2 March, Leeds Cathedral
Dr Thomas Trotter
Thomas Trotter’s annual appearances in the Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music series are always keenly anticipated, and this year features a typical mixture of virtuoso showpieces and some interesting lesser-known repertoire.
This concert is available to watch online until Wednesday 8 April.
Mon 23 February, Leeds Cathedral
Darius Battiwalla
Music in the grand Romantic style begins and ends this recital which has a definite international flavour, with music by composers from Canada, Australia, Belgium, and Sweden, where Elfrida Andrée was the first woman to lead a professional orchestra.
This concert is available to watch online until Wednesday 8 April.
Mon 16 February, Leeds Cathedral
Peter Holder
An all English programme spanning 600 years, with music by William Harris, William Byrd, Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Judith Weir, and Iain Farrington.
Peter Holder is organist at Christ Church, Oxford.
This concert is available to watch online until Saturday 21 March.
Mon 9 February, Leeds Cathedral
Benjamin Newlove
Benjamin Newlove is the Organist of Leeds Cathedral - accompanying the Cathedral's daily sung Masses, working with the acclaimed Cathedral Choirs, including regular BBC radio broadcasts, directing Leeds International Organ Festival, and teaching for the Diocese of Leeds Keyboard Studies Programme.
This concert is available to watch online until Saturday 21 March.
Monday 22 November 2021, Leeds Cathedral
D’Arcy Trinkwon, International Concert Organist
D’Arcy Trinkwon has given recitals and premieres all over the world and has a huge range of repertoire – as did this livestreamed recital; including works by Charles Marie Widor, Johann Christian Heinrich Rinck, Georges Jacob, Dezso d’Antallfy and Paul Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.