10.00am-5.00pm: Choral Workshop Day
7.30pm: public concert
£20, including lunch
£10 if in full-time education
(10% discount for groups of 10 or more)
The Leeds University Choral Expertise and Attainment Network (LUCEAT) is delighted to announce a second choral workshop day and evening concert for choral singers and directors, led by Bryan White and Graham Coatman (see below) at the School of Music, University of Leeds. The workshop will be a further opportunity for choral singers to take advantage of the excellent musical facilities of the University and bring together the wealth of shared experience and expertise in choral organisations from the region and beyond.
During the workshop, participants will explore unusual corners of the choral repertory (some of them held uniquely in the library), including rare arrangements of Kabarett songs by the Comedian Harmonists (active in pre-war Berlin), Christus Est Stella Matutina by Graham Coatman (recently premiered at ‘Bede's World', Jarrow), and American music by Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, and Norman Dello Joio. There will be a chance to meet other singers and choir directors, make contacts and share experiences, and sing alongside members of other choirs, including the two host ensembles.
The day will culminate in a concert given by workshop participants, Leeds University Liturgical Choir and Leeds Guild of Singers, featuring music rehearsed during the workshop.
Please follow these instructions carefully:
- Visit the University online store (this link opens a new page)
- You must book by price range and voice
- Select the required voice and price range, then indicate the number of tickets required
- Click "Add to basket"
- Fill in the requested details for this voice/price range on the next page
- Click "Next"
- Your "shopping basket" will show your bookings so far
- To add more people in other price ranges and voices, click "continue shopping"
- You will be taken to the University Onine Store's homepage
- In the "search box" to the left-hand side, type "choral" and hit return
- Repeat the process from step 3 above
- When you have finished, you can go to "checkout" and enter personal and payment details; you may have to create an account
Apologies that this is not completely straightforward!
Graham Coatman
Graham enjoys an active and varied career as composer, musical director and pianist with special involvement in creative arts & education projects across the UK and Europe . Recent commissions include works for contemporary vocal ensemble Exaudi, jazz trio Interference, National Saxophone Choir and the song cycle Confessions! for Royal Opera mezzo Clare McCaldin. Present commissions include concertos for violinist Harriet Mackenzie, pianist Natalia Strelchenko, and a work for guitarist Carl Herring with string quartet. His choir, Leeds Guild of Singers, premièred his Entartung (3 Heine settings for choir/saxophone) at Royal Scottish Academy of Music in February 2008.
Besides directing Leeds Guild of Singers, Graham is Senior Lecturer in Performance Studies & Composition at Leeds College of Music and Director of HISS, the Historically Informed Summer School. As a choral director he has conducted performances of works ranging from Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610 to Orff's Carmina Burana . He has also led a wide range of choral and vocal workshops, projects and residencies, for groups large and small, from children's choirs to the University of the Third Age, leading to performances at London's Royal Albert Hall, Wigmore Hall and the South Bank, and in France , the Netherlands and Germany.
Bryan White
Bryan took his undergraduate degree at Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX), where he studied choral conducting with Lloyd Pfautsch and Barbara Brinson. He completed a PhD at the University of Wales, Bangor and he is a published scholar whose research focuses on English music of the Restoration period. He has performed as a baritone soloist in the United States and in Great Britain , and at Leeds he is a member of the Leeds Baroque Choir. He directs the Leeds University Liturgical Choir (music.leeds.ac.uk/lulc) whose repertoire ranges from the earliest English choral polyphony (the choir performed concert of music from the Eton Choirbook at the International Medieval Conference in summer 2011) to newly composed works. He has recorded three CDs with LULC: Songs of Praise: Music in the West Riding (2004); Vox Dei (2006); No man is an Island (2008). He also works regularly with the School of Music Project Chorus, most recently on a programme of contemporary a cappella music by Finnish composers including Einojuhani Rautavaara and Jakko Mäntyjärvi. Previous work with this choir has included including Tippett's Child of our Time , Elgar's Caractacus , Parry's The Lotus-Eaters and Mendelssohn's Die erste Walpurgis Nacht . He has worked as chorus master in the revivals of several neglected operas including the School's productions of Louis Spohr's Pietro von Abano in 2009 and Salieri's Les Danaïdes in 2011.