2012 – 13 About us
Director of Music: David Hill
Established in 1870, the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus – affectionately Welcome to our 2012-13 choral season known as The Phil – has been a continuous and integral part of the local programme. music scene, performing with world-class orchestras, conductors and soloists for the people of Leeds and beyond. This season Leeds Philharmonic Chorus will perform a total of five concerts in Leeds Town Hall: two concerts as part of the Leeds Its repertoire covers everything from traditional and Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir well-known large-scale choral works to modern Charles Groves and Richard Hickox. The Chorus International Concert Season, two of its own promotions, and the and lesser-known works, including specially- was delighted when David Hill became its Music traditional and much-loved Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts in December. commissioned new compositions. One such Director in May 2005, thus continuing the tradition highlight was the 2007 world première, in Leeds of leadership by the most eminent British choral The first of our own promotions is on Sunday 14 October, an evening Town Hall, of The Brontë Mass by distinguished conductors of the day. Yorkshire-born composer Philip Wilby. of twentieth century choral and orchestral music by Britten, Holst The Chorus has recorded CDs of Stanford’s Stabat and Dyson, when we are delighted to welcome choristers from The In addition to its Town Hall appearances, the Phil Mater and Te Deum (Chandos), Walton’s Gloria and regularly performs in other major UK concert Belshazzar’s Feast (Naxos) and Handel’s Messiah Grammar School at Leeds and Harrogate Grammar School to join us. venues such as the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the (CMI Records). Many of its concerts have been The second, on 15 December, is the ever-popular Messiah, but with Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Sage Centre broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in conjunction with the a difference: this year the Chorus will be accompanied by the at Gateshead, while its biennial overseas tours have BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. taken it to important musical cities throughout The Phil’s President is Dr Ingrid Roscoe, multi-award-winning Black Dyke Band, one of the oldest and northern Europe, including Prague, Budapest and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. best-known brass bands in the world. Vienna. Its distinguished past musical directors have included Sir Charles Stanford, Sir Edward Bairstow,
“One of the finest Thank you for your past support. performances we are ever likely to hear.” We look forward to welcoming you Yorkshire Post again this season. “This performance contained power and introspection... a meaningful In association with performance, full of integrity.” The Guardian
2 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 3 About us
Director of Music: David Hill
Established in 1870, the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus – affectionately Welcome to our 2012-13 choral season known as The Phil – has been a continuous and integral part of the local programme. music scene, performing with world-class orchestras, conductors and soloists for the people of Leeds and beyond. This season Leeds Philharmonic Chorus will perform a total of five concerts in Leeds Town Hall: two concerts as part of the Leeds Its repertoire covers everything from traditional and Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir well-known large-scale choral works to modern Charles Groves and Richard Hickox. The Chorus International Concert Season, two of its own promotions, and the and lesser-known works, including specially- was delighted when David Hill became its Music traditional and much-loved Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts in December. commissioned new compositions. One such Director in May 2005, thus continuing the tradition highlight was the 2007 world première, in Leeds of leadership by the most eminent British choral The first of our own promotions is on Sunday 14 October, an evening Town Hall, of The Brontë Mass by distinguished conductors of the day. Yorkshire-born composer Philip Wilby. of twentieth century choral and orchestral music by Britten, Holst The Chorus has recorded CDs of Stanford’s Stabat and Dyson, when we are delighted to welcome choristers from The In addition to its Town Hall appearances, the Phil Mater and Te Deum (Chandos), Walton’s Gloria and regularly performs in other major UK concert Belshazzar’s Feast (Naxos) and Handel’s Messiah Grammar School at Leeds and Harrogate Grammar School to join us. venues such as the Symphony Hall, Birmingham, the (CMI Records). Many of its concerts have been The second, on 15 December, is the ever-popular Messiah, but with Bridgewater Hall, Manchester and the Sage Centre broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in conjunction with the a difference: this year the Chorus will be accompanied by the at Gateshead, while its biennial overseas tours have BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. taken it to important musical cities throughout The Phil’s President is Dr Ingrid Roscoe, multi-award-winning Black Dyke Band, one of the oldest and northern Europe, including Prague, Budapest and Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire. best-known brass bands in the world. Vienna. Its distinguished past musical directors have included Sir Charles Stanford, Sir Edward Bairstow,
“One of the finest Thank you for your past support. performances we are ever likely to hear.” We look forward to welcoming you Yorkshire Post again this season. “This performance contained power and introspection... a meaningful In association with performance, full of integrity.” The Guardian
2 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 3 Sunday 14 October 2012, 7pm Thursday 13 December 2012, 6.30pm & 8.30pm leeds Town Hall leeds Town Hall Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus The National Festival Orchestra Rothwell Temperance Brass Band Choristers of The Grammar School at Leeds and Harrogate Grammar School
Darius Battiwalla An Evening conductor Lord Mayor’s of Twent iet h Graham Eccles Carol Concerts organ Century English Alan Horsey & Clare Bullimore Introduced and conducted by Music piano duet Simon Lindley Sarah Potter Alan Horsey SIMON LINDLEY ALAN HORSEY soprano organ
Paul Dutton Celebrate Christmas at Leeds Town Hall’s tenor annual family carol concerts. After the The Boy Nicolas: concert there will be a collection for the Kieron Moore treble (Leeds Minster Choir) Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal. The Three Pickled Boys: This year the Lord Mayor is supporting the work of DARIUS BATTIWALLA CLARE BULLIMORE Joseph McDermott, Hamish Broadbent, ROTHWELL TEMPERANCE BRASS BAND Crohn’s and Colitis UK in its efforts to raise £15,000 Benedict Baily trebles (York Minster Choir) for the purchase of two capsule endoscopy systems Britten St Nicolas – one at the Leeds General Infirmary and one at St James’s Hospital. This will provide tangible benefits Dyson Hierusalem for people in the area who have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and will be accessible for both Holst Two Psalms adult and child patients. Britten Simple Symphony KIERON MOORE PAUL DUTTON Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Tickets: £5 Concessions available Concessions £2.50
4 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 5 Sunday 14 October 2012, 7pm Thursday 13 December 2012, 6.30pm & 8.30pm leeds Town Hall leeds Town Hall Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus The National Festival Orchestra Rothwell Temperance Brass Band Choristers of The Grammar School at Leeds and Harrogate Grammar School
Darius Battiwalla An Evening conductor Lord Mayor’s of Twent iet h Graham Eccles Carol Concerts organ Century English Alan Horsey & Clare Bullimore Introduced and conducted by Music piano duet Simon Lindley Sarah Potter Alan Horsey SIMON LINDLEY ALAN HORSEY soprano organ
Paul Dutton Celebrate Christmas at Leeds Town Hall’s tenor annual family carol concerts. After the The Boy Nicolas: concert there will be a collection for the Kieron Moore treble (Leeds Minster Choir) Lord Mayor’s Charity Appeal. The Three Pickled Boys: This year the Lord Mayor is supporting the work of DARIUS BATTIWALLA CLARE BULLIMORE Joseph McDermott, Hamish Broadbent, ROTHWELL TEMPERANCE BRASS BAND Crohn’s and Colitis UK in its efforts to raise £15,000 Benedict Baily trebles (York Minster Choir) for the purchase of two capsule endoscopy systems Britten St Nicolas – one at the Leeds General Infirmary and one at St James’s Hospital. This will provide tangible benefits Dyson Hierusalem for people in the area who have Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) and will be accessible for both Holst Two Psalms adult and child patients. Britten Simple Symphony KIERON MOORE PAUL DUTTON Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Tickets: £5 Concessions available Concessions £2.50
4 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 5 Saturday 15 December 2012, 7.30pm Saturday 9 March 2013, 7.30pm leeds Town Hall leeds Town Hall Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus The Black Dyke Band BBC Philharmonic
Presented by
Handel’s Haydn’s Messiah The Creation David Hill David Hill conductor conductor DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD DAVID HOULDER David Houlder Sarah Fox DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD SARAH FOX organ soprano Keri Fuge Nicholas Mulroy soprano tenor Katie Bray Neal Davies alto bass
KERI FUGE © Lukasz Rajchert ALEXANDER ASHWORTH Peter Davoren Haydn The Creation NICHOLAS MULROY Neal Davies © Sussie Ahlburg tenor Alexander Ashworth bass
Handel Messiah Free pre-concert talk by Clive McClelland at 6.45pm
THE BLACK DYKE BAND Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Concessions available Concessions available
6 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 7 Saturday 15 December 2012, 7.30pm Saturday 9 March 2013, 7.30pm leeds Town Hall leeds Town Hall Leeds Philharmonic Chorus Leeds Philharmonic Chorus The Black Dyke Band BBC Philharmonic
Presented by
Handel’s Haydn’s Messiah The Creation David Hill David Hill conductor conductor DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD DAVID HOULDER David Houlder Sarah Fox DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD SARAH FOX organ soprano Keri Fuge Nicholas Mulroy soprano tenor Katie Bray Neal Davies alto bass
KERI FUGE © Lukasz Rajchert ALEXANDER ASHWORTH Peter Davoren Haydn The Creation NICHOLAS MULROY Neal Davies © Sussie Ahlburg tenor Alexander Ashworth bass
Handel Messiah Free pre-concert talk by Clive McClelland at 6.45pm
THE BLACK DYKE BAND Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Concessions available Concessions available
6 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 7 Saturday 25 May 2013, 7.30pm Booking Information Access leeds Town Hall
By Telephone Leeds Philharmonic Chorus 0113 224 3801 The Booking Line is open from 10am to 6pm, Patrons with disabilities and their essential carers The Hallé Monday to Saturday. may obtain two tickets for the price of one. There is full wheelchair access to Leeds Town Hall and Online Leeds Festival Chorus wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities on all floors. A www.leedsconcertseason.com number of spaces in the seating area are reserved for wheelchair use. Please let the Box Office know Presented by In Person when booking of any special access requirement. City Centre Box Office The Carriageworks, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD E-mail: [email protected] Leeds Town Hall is equipped with a closed loop The Box Office is open to personal callers from system for the hard of hearing. Music from 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday. the New World From Members of the Chorus Tickets can be bought through individual members A number of free parking spaces are reserved at the of the chorus for our two own-promotion concerts front of the Town Hall for blue badge-holders. David Hill only, on 14 October (Britten/Holst/Dyson) and Support dogs are welcome. conductor 15 December (Messiah).
DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD JOSEPH McDERMOTT Joseph McDermott Concessions treble Over 60s: £1.50 reduction on all tickets. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Under 18s, unwaged, full-time students: 50% reduction on all tickets. Bernstein Chichester Psalms Bernstein Symphonic Dances: Group Bookings West Side Story Discounts are available for groups of ten or more. Please contact the Box Office for details. Adams Harmonium £5 Standby Tickets for Under 26s If you’re under 26 you can buy tickets in rows 1 – 7 for £5 in the seven days before a concert (subject to availability).
Free pre-concert talk by Catherine Tackley at 6.45pm
Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Concessions available
8 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 9 Saturday 25 May 2013, 7.30pm Booking Information Access leeds Town Hall
By Telephone Leeds Philharmonic Chorus 0113 224 3801 The Booking Line is open from 10am to 6pm, Patrons with disabilities and their essential carers The Hallé Monday to Saturday. may obtain two tickets for the price of one. There is full wheelchair access to Leeds Town Hall and Online Leeds Festival Chorus wheelchair-accessible toilet facilities on all floors. A www.leedsconcertseason.com number of spaces in the seating area are reserved for wheelchair use. Please let the Box Office know Presented by In Person when booking of any special access requirement. City Centre Box Office The Carriageworks, The Electric Press, 3 Millennium Square, Leeds LS2 3AD E-mail: [email protected] Leeds Town Hall is equipped with a closed loop The Box Office is open to personal callers from system for the hard of hearing. Music from 10am to 6pm, Monday to Saturday. the New World From Members of the Chorus Tickets can be bought through individual members A number of free parking spaces are reserved at the of the chorus for our two own-promotion concerts front of the Town Hall for blue badge-holders. David Hill only, on 14 October (Britten/Holst/Dyson) and Support dogs are welcome. conductor 15 December (Messiah).
DAVID HILL © JOHN WOOD JOSEPH McDERMOTT Joseph McDermott Concessions treble Over 60s: £1.50 reduction on all tickets. Copland Fanfare for the Common Man Under 18s, unwaged, full-time students: 50% reduction on all tickets. Bernstein Chichester Psalms Bernstein Symphonic Dances: Group Bookings West Side Story Discounts are available for groups of ten or more. Please contact the Box Office for details. Adams Harmonium £5 Standby Tickets for Under 26s If you’re under 26 you can buy tickets in rows 1 – 7 for £5 in the seven days before a concert (subject to availability).
Free pre-concert talk by Catherine Tackley at 6.45pm
Tickets: £16 – £31.50 Concessions available
8 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 9 Friends of the Phil Sponsorship and Legacies
Leeds Philharmonic Society, like many other cultural As a registered charity, Leeds Philharmonic Chorus organisations, has at its heart a loyal band of Friends does not receive government funding or any other who act as a conduit for encouraging support, endowments other than members’ subscriptions for keeping interested people informed about (which generally only cover music hire and the the Chorus and who help to raise much needed fees of its professional music team). The cost of funds. The Friends help the Chorus to promote performing great music continues to rise, and its performances and to bring new audiences to therefore, particularly in the case of its own- support its objective of promoting choral music to promotion concerts where it must meet all the the public. costs of publicity, venue/orchestra hire and soloists, the Chorus relies on outside funding to help it The Friends’ membership consists of many loyal continue to perform on a regular basis with the spouses, partners, friends and former members highest quality orchestras, conductors and soloists. who regularly come to the Phil’s performances, and who welcome the chance to lend their support. In The Chorus is therefore very grateful for the return they are kept informed of our activities by generosity of its commercial and other sponsors, means of letters from the Friends’ Secretary and as well as to the people who leave it a legacy. Your Chorus Newsletters. Joining the Friends of the association with the Phil may be as a singer past Phil is a way of expressing a belief in the value of or present, or as an audience member who has maintaining high standards of live choral music in enjoyed our concerts. Becoming a sponsor or Leeds. leaving a legacy is a chance to show how much you have valued this association and what the Chorus For further information about joining has given to you, perhaps over many years. the Friends of the Phil please visit www.leedsphil.org. For over 140 years Leeds Philharmonic Chorus has been at the heart of choral music in Leeds. Your support, either as a sponsor or benefactor through legacy, will help to sustain the future of the Chorus for forthcoming generations of singers and Do you love singing? If you are interesting in joining concert-goers. the Chorus, come and meet If you are interested in becoming a Would you like a chance to us at one of our rehearsals, sponsor or in leaving a legacy, please email [email protected] 1 Sing with professional conductors held every Thursday evening at and orchestras? 7.15pm starting this season on 1 Perform as part of the Leeds 30 August. International Concert Season? 1 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Receive musical development Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3BR and training? (adjacent to Leeds General Infirmary) 1 Perform large-scale choral works from a varied repertoire? For more information visit 1 Sing on European tours? www.leedsphil.org/join.asp
10 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 11 Friends of the Phil Sponsorship and Legacies
Leeds Philharmonic Society, like many other cultural As a registered charity, Leeds Philharmonic Chorus organisations, has at its heart a loyal band of Friends does not receive government funding or any other who act as a conduit for encouraging support, endowments other than members’ subscriptions for keeping interested people informed about (which generally only cover music hire and the the Chorus and who help to raise much needed fees of its professional music team). The cost of funds. The Friends help the Chorus to promote performing great music continues to rise, and its performances and to bring new audiences to therefore, particularly in the case of its own- support its objective of promoting choral music to promotion concerts where it must meet all the the public. costs of publicity, venue/orchestra hire and soloists, the Chorus relies on outside funding to help it The Friends’ membership consists of many loyal continue to perform on a regular basis with the spouses, partners, friends and former members highest quality orchestras, conductors and soloists. who regularly come to the Phil’s performances, and who welcome the chance to lend their support. In The Chorus is therefore very grateful for the return they are kept informed of our activities by generosity of its commercial and other sponsors, means of letters from the Friends’ Secretary and as well as to the people who leave it a legacy. Your Chorus Newsletters. Joining the Friends of the association with the Phil may be as a singer past Phil is a way of expressing a belief in the value of or present, or as an audience member who has maintaining high standards of live choral music in enjoyed our concerts. Becoming a sponsor or Leeds. leaving a legacy is a chance to show how much you have valued this association and what the Chorus For further information about joining has given to you, perhaps over many years. the Friends of the Phil please visit www.leedsphil.org. For over 140 years Leeds Philharmonic Chorus has been at the heart of choral music in Leeds. Your support, either as a sponsor or benefactor through legacy, will help to sustain the future of the Chorus for forthcoming generations of singers and Do you love singing? If you are interesting in joining concert-goers. the Chorus, come and meet If you are interested in becoming a Would you like a chance to us at one of our rehearsals, sponsor or in leaving a legacy, please email [email protected] 1 Sing with professional conductors held every Thursday evening at and orchestras? 7.15pm starting this season on 1 Perform as part of the Leeds 30 August. International Concert Season? 1 ST GEORGE’S CHURCH Receive musical development Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3BR and training? (adjacent to Leeds General Infirmary) 1 Perform large-scale choral works from a varied repertoire? For more information visit 1 Sing on European tours? www.leedsphil.org/join.asp
10 LEEDS PHILHARMONIC CHORUS www.leedsphil.org 11 www.leedsphil.org