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Join the Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire to support Baroque Performance and the next generation of period instrument performers.
Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire is a Charity which provides financial and practical support to Baroque ensembles, enabling Yorkshire audiences to share in the musicians’ enthusiasm for Baroque music. We help professional, non-professional and student players in our region to perform the Baroque choral and orchestral repertory at a high level of practice and scholarship, working with some of the country’s leading exponents of early music.
The Friends are currently one of the major sources of funding for Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra (the city’s only period instrument orchestra). We give a vital boost to LB’s income, ensuring they maintain and develop their acclaimed standards. In pursuit of this, the Friends have purchased a chamber organ for the use of the choir, and supported a crowd funding campaign for historically appropriate timpani.
The Friends have also occasionally given individual grants to students and aspiring professionals who pursue a performing interest in Baroque music. The Charity owns two Baroque violins, a Baroque viola, and Baroque cello, all for short-term loan to promising students.
The Friends are currently one of the major sources of funding for Leeds Baroque Choir and Orchestra (the city’s only period instrument orchestra). We give a vital boost to LB’s income, ensuring they maintain and develop their acclaimed standards. In pursuit of this, the Friends have purchased a chamber organ for the use of the choir, and supported a crowd funding campaign for historically appropriate timpani.
The Friends have also occasionally given individual grants to students and aspiring professionals who pursue a performing interest in Baroque music. The Charity owns two Baroque violins, a Baroque viola, and Baroque cello, all for short-term loan to promising students.
FBMY NEWS:
Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire support a ‘First Modern Performance’ of Bigaglia’s Dixit Dominus.
Thanks to extensive research by Professor Michael Talbot (Emeritus Professor of Music at Liverpool University) into the work of Diogenio Bigaglia (c. 1678 – c. 1745) Leeds Baroque will include his magnificent setting of Dixit Dominus in their Venetian Baroque Vespers programme on October 29th. Funds provided by Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire have enabled the preparation of a performing edition of score, choral scores and orchestral parts. There will be an opportunity to learn more about Bigaglia (a famous name in his time, but less well known today) in Professor Talbot's pre- concert talk.
Leeds Baroque’s administrator said, "We are hugely grateful to both Professor Talbot for making the results of his research available to us and the Friends for their support of the new performing edition". To find out more about the work of the Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire see see JOINING THE FRIENDS
FBMY launch Prize for Student Performance of Baroque Chamber Music 2024
The Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire (FBMY) propose to offer an annual Prize of £500 for performance by students of Baroque chamber music. Competitors must currently be enrolled, or have been enrolled during 2022-23, at a Higher Education College or University in West Yorkshire. There are no restrictions regarding the age of the competitors.
Further details to be announced.
To encourage participation in the competition leader of the period instrument orchestra Leeds Baroque, Asuka Sumi, will be offering free workshops for student string players to develop their Baroque technique and repertoire knowledge.
Join her for a “taster session on Monday 24 May 2023 in the School Of Music, University of Leeds.
Details and booking on the LEEDS BAROQUE website
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