A two-day symposium on the music collections of University of Leeds Libraries and Leeds Central Library and Leeds City Museum featuring a series of talks and two concerts.

This two-day symposium explores the music collections and contexts of the University of Leeds Libraries and Leeds Central Library and Leeds City Museum. The symposium will take place over two days at the University of Leeds Music Library and Leeds Central Library. Speakers will address subjects including the music collector W. T. Freemantle, the Leeds International Piano Competition, the Opera North Archive, the composer Denis ApIvor, the Leeds Victorian Music Collection, the folksong collector Frank Kidson, and the music of the early eighteenth-century Leeds Partbooks. Speakers include Michael Allis, Oliver Chandler, John Cunningham, Katie Gardner, Peter Holman, Barbara Kelly, Chris Nickson, Derek Scott and Bryan White. Talks will be complemented by concerts of the music of Denis ApIvor (24 April) performed by James Woodrow and friends, and theatre music from the Leeds Partbooks by Louis Grabu, Gottfried Finger, Henry Purcell and Jean-Baptiste Lully performed by members of Leeds Baroque (25 April).

For more information and details of the programme, visit the website here.