This concert is part of the Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music 2024/25 series.

About the Leeds Lunchtime Organ Music 2024/25 series

The series is curated by Leeds City Organist, Darius Battiwalla, and features a wide variety of talented organists. It currently takes place at St Anne’s Cathedral on a Monday lunchtime between 1.15pm – 2.05pm. The concerts are all free to attend and everyone is welcome. You don’t need to book in advance, just turn up on the day and enjoy the music. Donations are a great support to these lunchtime concerts, and we are very grateful for all contributions from those who feel able to. You can donate to the pay-as-you-feel retiring collection at concerts or you can donate online at any time.

You can also watch the concerts from the comfort of your own home. Recitals are recorded live in concert and usually remain available to watch on our website in the 30 days after the performance.

A note from Darius Battiwalla

A warm welcome to our 2024/25 organ recital series, which is once again held at Leeds Cathedral – we’d like to thank the Dean and the team at the Cathedral for making us welcome and for the use of their fine Klais organ.

This season we’re particularly glad to be welcoming the international concert organist David Goode, as well as a return visit from Canadian virtuoso Rachel Mahon, and we also have the fine players from our ‘local’ cathedrals of Bradford, Wakefield, and Sheffield. We have an exciting range of repertoire as well, including more pieces than ever by women composers, and two world premieres – one by City Organist Emeritus Simon Lindley to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his arrival in Leeds.

Our request programme is slightly earlier this year, in December, so if you have any neglected masterpieces or popular favourites you’d like to hear, Christmassy or otherwise, don’t leave it too long to send them in!

And finally, thank you once again for your generous support – we rely on your donations both in person and online, so if you enjoy our concerts, please give what you can to enable them to continue.

Darius Battiwalla
Leeds City Organist