Leeds International Organ Festival

Time to reawaken our account! 📣 TOMORROW 📣 Organist Ben Newlove launches our Complete Bach Organ Music recital series! 📍Leeds Cathedral 🕓 4pm 🎟️ £10 (under 18s free) on the door Beautiful venue, fabulous organ, amazing organist! 10 mins walk from Leeds station See you there!

TOMORROW!! The final recital of LIOF 2024 is happening tomorrow at 1.15pm at Leeds Cathedral! Our Artistic Director William Campbell will perform music by @Karakelcomposer, Léonce de Saint- Martin, Florence Prince and C.V. Stanford. An exciting recital in prospect!

2 DAYS TO GO!! The final recital of LIOF 2024 is happening this Monday 15th July at Leeds Cathedral. Our Artistic Director William Campbell will perform music by @Karakelcomposer, Léonce de Saint- Martin, Florence Prince and C.V. Stanford! Hope to see you there!

TOMORROW! 1.15pm at Leeds Cathedral William Campbell and Frankie Tempest perform a joint recital this year's festival! Including music by Healey Willan, J.S. Bach, Sir George Thalben-Ball and Charles-Marie Widor. We hope to see you there!

THREE DAYS TO GO! In a slight change to previous publicity, this coming Monday William Campbell and Frankie Tempest will be performing at Leeds International Organ Festival 2024! Including music by Willan, J.S. Bach, Thalben-Ball and Widor!

TOMORROW! Friedhelm Flamme, a long standing friend of LIOF will be performing at this year’s festival! His programme includes music by Buxtehude, Byrd, J.S. Bach, Jesper Madsen and Max Drischner. This is not one to be missed!

TOMORROW! Graham Barber (Organist at St. Bartholomew’s Church, Armley) performs at LIOF 2024! He will be playing music by J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Josef Rheinberger, Zsolt Gárdonyi and Percy Whitlock. We hope to see you there!

Wow - WHAT a piece! If you want some incredible intensity have a listen to this clip of Andriessen's Miroir de Peine from this week's lunchtime recital, given by Benjamin Saunders and Louise Wayman. The full recording is on our YouTube channel.

TOMORROW! Benjamin Saunders (Organ and Accordion) and Louise Wayman (Soprano) give this week's Monday Lunchtime recital; 1.15pm at Leeds Cathedral. Including music by Couperin, J.S. Bach, Vierne and Andriessen; this is not one to be missed!

3 DAYS TO GO!! Benjamin Saunders (Organ and Accordion) and Louise Wayman (Soprano) give our Monday Lunchtime recital this coming Monday 17th June - this is not one to be missed! Including music by Couperin, J.S. Bach, Andriessen and Vierne. 📍 Leeds Cathedral 🕰️ 1.15pm

We enjoyed a brilliant recital from Alessandro Bianchi on Monday. Here's a clip of the Prélude from Langlais' Suite Médiévale Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more highlights!

We are delighted to welcome Benjamin Saunders (@DOLMusic, @nationalssp) to perform on Monday 17th June. This concert will feature Soprano Louise Wayman. Here is a performance of Benjamin performing Les Barricades Mystérieuses by Couperin: youtube.com/watch?v=xGidHt…

Tomorrow at 1.15pm Alessandro Bianchi will be playing the Leeds Cathedral Organ! His programme contains works by J.S. Bach (arr. Virgil Fox), César Franck, Jean Langlais, Hans Uwe Hielscher, Massimo Nosetti and Pierre Cochereau. All are most welcome!

3 DAYS TO GO! Alessandro Bianchi (Organist at St. Edward the Confessor's Anglican church, Lugano) will be performing music by J.S. Bach, César Franck, Jean Langlais, Hans Uwe Hielscher, Massimo Nosetti and Pierre Cochereau this coming Monday. 📍Leeds Cathedral ⏰ 1.15pm

An amazing recital from Valerie and Djordje on Monday - here's a little clip of a famous organ piece, the Toccata from Boëllmann's Suite Gothique, arranged for accordion duet! Recitals in our beautiful cathedral continue every Monday at 1.15pm - next up, Alessandro Bianchi.

On Monday (10th June) we welcome Alessandro Bianchi to give our lunchtime recital. Alessandro gave recitals as part of LIOF in 2020 and 2021. In anticipation of his recital on Monday, here is his recital from 2021! youtube.com/watch?v=jHQMUD…

TODAY at 1.15pm - Valerie Barr and Djordje Gajic (Accordions) give our Monday Lunchtime Recital including arrangements of popular organ works by César Franck and Léon Boëllmann. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Djordje Gajic and I are performing at @LeedsIOF next week! Featuring works by Franck, @alasdairnic and Boëllmann 🪗 @GajicAccordion 1.15pm, Monday 3rd June @ Leeds Cathedral facebook.com/events/s/leeds…

TODAY at 1.15pm - Kamil Mika (St. James Episcopal Church, Aberdeen) gives a recital of music by J.S. Bach, Claude Debussy, Guy Bovet, Marian Sawa and Maurice Duruflé. This one is not to be missed!

A reminder - Thomas Leech opens our 2024 Organ Festival TOMORROW at 1.15pm! A small hint in the picture of what Dupré to expect tomorrow afternoon…