On 28 September 2025 at Leeds Conservatoire, baritone Huw Montague Rendall and pianist Joseph Middleton open the 2025/26 concert season of Leeds Song, of which Middleton is the artistic director, with a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin.
The full season features seven events leading up to the Leeds Song Festival from 11 to 18 April 2026.
Before then, the concert season in Leeds includes soprano Miah Persson in Berg’s Seven Early Songs and a personal selection of Scandinavian song; soprano Ailish Tynan celebrating the anniversaries of Ravel, Caplet and Satie; baritone James Newby in a recital recreating the programme Dietrich Fischer Dieskau and Benjamin Britten performed together at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1972; soprano Hera Hyesang Park, who sings Susanna in Opera North’s 2026 production of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, making her Leeds Song debut; and counter-tenor Hugh Cutting in recital in Harrogate. The season also includes a masterclass from Dame Felicity Lott, and a chance to hear the new generation of lieder singers and pianists with Royal Academy of Music Song Circle.
Full details from the Leeds Song website.
