Red Violin Festival: In Harmony - Opera North Violinists

A range of In Harmony Opera North, Young Musicians Studio, and Youth Orchestra students perform works for young violinists in ‘Celebration of the Violin’ presented by Madeleine Mitchell, with slides of great violin paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Dufy, Chagall and others alongside the performances.

Also featuring 21-year-old Royal College of Music violinist Shing Hong Chow performing Virtuosic pieces*

Programme:

Peter Maxwell Davies - Sanday Tunes

Malcolm Singer - Suite from the Shtetl

Red Violin Festival: CAERUS Quartet, London to Paris - A Journey of Contrasts

CAERUS Quartet:

Jonian Ilias Kadesha - violin

Pablo Hernán Benedi - violin/viola

Lily Francis - viola/violin

Vashti Hunter - cello

London to Paris - A Journey of Contrasts

The CAERUS Quaret presents highly contrasting music from France and England. The programme focuses on Benjamin Britten's epic second string quartet whihc is paired with Henry Purcell's Fantasias whose influence can be heard in the Britten.

Programme:

Beyond the Bassline: Black British music in Leeds

An exhibition inspired by the British Library’s exhibition Beyond the Baseline: 500 Years of Black British Music. 

During Black History Month, Halton Library will be home to the panel display, helping to tell a national story about Black music in Britain through the British Library’s Living Knowledge Network. 

The display will also feature artworks, photographs and more from Leeds Libraries collections relating to Black British music in Leeds.

Anastasia Coope

At just 21 years old, Anastasia Coope’s talents as a musician, painter, and folk artist are formidable, but it’s her haunting baritone that may first draw listeners in. Using layered recording techniques, she builds vast vocal choirs that sweep, chant, and swirl through her music, creating a phantasmic ether around her spectral timbre.

Wild Play at Half Term

Set up camp for a day of wildness in the woods at TCV Skelton Grange...

Activities will vary from session to session depending on the season and the group - but past Wild Play days have included:

Wide games, shelter building, fire lighting, campfire cooking, field games, hammock hanging, wild food walks, woodwork crafts, string making, bows and arrows, stalking and tracking, pyro-carving and charcoal making.

Crime Theatre – A night of two halves!

Leeds Arts Centre brings you a night of Crime Theatre in two Deciphering Different Detective plays.

Stake Out by Simon Brett OBE

Detective Sergeant Craig Downs is on his final stake-out before retirement to catch the serial ‘Kilburn Killer’. Ever the traditionalist, Downs is keen to tell new comer, Hayley Poulson, all about being a proper cop, however, she is also keen to show Downs an alternative approach. Will they see eye to eye, and can they work together to catch the Kilburn Killer before they strike again?

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