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 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, supported a crowd funding campaign for historically appropriate timpani and sponsored visiting soloists.
The Friends also provide small individual grants to students and aspiring professionals who pursue a performing interest in Baroque music. They now also support a series of workshops to encourage the performance of Historicaly Informed Performance Practice (HIPP).
The Charity owns three 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, supported a crowd funding campaign for historically appropriate timpani and sponsored visiting soloists.
The Friends also provide small individual grants to students and aspiring professionals who pursue a performing interest in Baroque music. They now also support a series of workshops to encourage the performance of Historicaly Informed Performance Practice (HIPP).
The Charity owns three Baroque violins, a Baroque viola, and Baroque cello, all for short-term loan to promising students.
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NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN!
10th October - 19th October 2025
In recognition of all the charities who work to support heritage, the arts and culture, we’re giving 10 charities £5,000 each in this limited-time special draw.All you need to do is nominate a charity whose core charitable purpose is the advancement of the arts, culture or heritage.
10th October - 19th October 2025
In recognition of all the charities who work to support heritage, the arts and culture, we’re giving 10 charities £5,000 each in this limited-time special draw.All you need to do is nominate a charity whose core charitable purpose is the advancement of the arts, culture or heritage.
Are you interested in Baroque music as a performer or an audience member?
Would you like to help promote its live performance throughout Yorkshire and support up-and- coming young musicians achieve their potential?
Have you time and organisational skills to support an important organisation with these aims?
If so consider joining our team. There are roles large and small, and like all voluntary organisations we rely on the friends of the Friends!
Would you like to help promote its live performance throughout Yorkshire and support up-and- coming young musicians achieve their potential?
Have you time and organisational skills to support an important organisation with these aims?
If so consider joining our team. There are roles large and small, and like all voluntary organisations we rely on the friends of the Friends!
Past events: Workshop Success!
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A colaboration between Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire, Fulneck School and members of Leeds Baroque orchestra culminated in a half-day workshop introcucing new players to the repertoire and techniques of Italian Baroque Music. Hosted by Fulneck School and directed by Asuka Sumi participants worked on some basics of Baroque bowing techniques and accommodating the diferences in tempered tuning in repertoire by Mancini: concerto for recorder and strings (1725), Brescianello: Sinfonia in D major (c1740) and Pergolesi: soprano solo from the Stabat Mater. We were joined for the recorder concerto and the Pergolesi by students from Fulneck school.
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Baroque Music Competion 2024
Final Recitals - and the winners are ... An audience of Friends of Baroque Music in Yorkshire, their friends and those of the performers, were treated to a wonderful afternoon of Baroque music making. The Competition judges, Susanna Pell and Peter Holman with Chairman of the panel Richard Andrews, had a difficult descision to make. The prize was awarded to Mina JACHIMOWICZ (cello), Nicholas BOOTH (cello)for their performance of Jean-Baptiste Barrière: Sonata no. 4 in G major(from Book 4 of Sonatas for cello and basso continuo |
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