Christmas – Leeds Philharmonic Chorus https://www.leedsphil.com New and Classical Music Choir Mon, 01 Dec 2025 09:42:50 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://www.leedsphil.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-lpc-144x144px-32x32.png Christmas – Leeds Philharmonic Chorus https://www.leedsphil.com 32 32 Temple Newsam Christmas Recital https://www.leedsphil.com/events/tnchristmas25/ Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:30:00 +0000 https://www.leedsphil.com/?post_type=tribe_events&p=5840

 

 

Join us for our first Christmas recital at the lovely Temple Newsam.
We are delighted to return to this lovely house and we will perform some timeless classics and some less well known to start the Christmas mood in December.
 
Elizabeth Poston The Lamb
Welsh arr Willcocks Deck the Hall
Gauntlett harm. Mann/Willcocks Once in Royal

Piano: Johannes Brahms Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen

Anton Bruckner Ave Maria
Will Todd My Lord has Come
Trad arr RVW/Armstrong O Little Town of Bethlehem
Piano: John rutter Mary’s Lullaby
Becky McGlade In the Bleak Mid-Winter
John Rutter Star Carol
Kerensa Briggs A Tender Shoot
Pierpont arr. David Willcocks Jingle Bells
Mendelssohn arr Willcocks Hark! the Herald-angels Sing
John Rutter The Twelve Days of Christmas

Tickets: Tickets: Standard: £10 • Including a glass of mulled wine: £14

or contact
Leeds Ticket Hub
Carriageworks Theatre
The Electric Press
3 Millennium Square
Leeds, LS2 3AD
 
Box Office: 0113 376 0318
e-mail: tickets@leeds.gov.uk
With:
 
Joseph Judge – Conductor
 
Russell Medley – Piano
 
 
And the massed voices of Leeds Philharmonic Chorus

 

 

 

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Leeds Philharmonic 2nd Christmas Carol Competition – Winner Announced

We held our second Phil Christmas Carol Competition during the autumn of 2019 as part of our charities aim to promote awareness of the beauty and benefits of choral singing.  

A cash prize of £750.00 together with publication of the winning carol by the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) meant that the competition attracted 76 high quality entrants from around the world.  While many of the entries came from the UK, we have been blown away again by the fully worldwide response and overall quality of the entries submitted.

The competition was judged by Joseph Judge, Simon Lindley, David Hill MBE (Music Director of the Leeds Phil), and Tim Ruffer (RSCM).

We are pleased to announce that the winning Carol is ‘Cradle Song’, which was submitted by Christopher Artley, from New Zealand.

Even more surprising – despite the blind judging – Chris won the first competion with ‘Christmas Bells’ in 2017.

Although Chris lives in New Zealand, Chris is a Leeds lad, born here in 1963, moving and going to Barrowcliffe School in Scarborough and then moving again and going to Cannon Slade School, Bolton.  As a Bristol University music graduate, he has spent 30 years teaching music in schools in the United Kingdom and New Zealand where he is now resident, and teaches at King’s College, Auckland.   Over the last ten years he has become a multi award-winning composer.

‘Cradle Song’ will be premiered at this year’s Lord Mayor’s Carol Concerts on the 19th December at Leeds Town Hall. Do come along and hear it.

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