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- learn and develop an outstanding range of skills; past colleagues have gone on to a range of senior roles in the sector. - part of the National Schools Singing Programme. - genuinely an amazing group of colleagues! 5/5

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- amazing musical variety - a day can start with Pirates with Y2 and end with a Mozart Mass and Gregorian chant. - partnerships include Gabrieli, The Sixteen, Vanderbilt and Texas El Paso universities...4/5

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- lots of support (particularly with pedagogy / classroom management), clear planning and repertoire resources. - thriving choirs across the programme, and opportunities to work with them (including the cathedral choirs). - can suit a new graduate or early career musician...3/5

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- make a real difference to children’s lives and access to music in some of the most deprived parts of West Yorkshire. - work with our excellent Bradford Catholic Youth Choir (running the Boys Choir)...2/5

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Bradford Festival Choral Society @bfcs1856.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Come and work with our lovely team from September! These are excellent jobs for musicians committed to both education and excellence and we can provide training and support. Very happy to chat about the job and programme / answer questions etc - get in touch! dolmusic.uk/vacancies 1/5

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🎶 Spotlight on our MD @thomasleech.com 🎶Tom’s calm, clear leadership shapes the BFCS sound every week — from first rehearsal to final performance. 🎶Our singers and audiences call him “inspiring”, and praise the “astonishing sound”. Hear him lead Haydn’s The Creation on 21 Mar at St George’s Hall

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 10/01/2026

Back at work! Choirs sounding really positive already this week, and lots of new ideas to support the choristers' musicianship development in their very limited rehearsal time combined with a busy service schedule... The coming week's services at Leeds Cathedral:

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 27/12/2025

Looking back on the finest review of my organ playing ever...13 years ago this Christmas!

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 28/10/2025

Looking forward to this fantastic project with The Sixteen and Harry Christophers - always an amazing weekend for our choristers, brilliantly delivered as part of The Sixteen's Talent Development Programme.

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 20/09/2025

A great start to the term with our choirs at Leeds Cathedral - a thriving example of a programe connected all the way from whole class singing to elite performance, based completely in state schools. Here's this week's music, and our full music list is on our website.

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 20/09/2025

Delighted that we've been shortlisted for this award, and the amazing shortlists across numerous categories demonstrate the importance and power of amateur music making. @makingmusicuk.bsky.social

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 24/07/2025

Big step nominative determinism

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 21/07/2025

A privilege to be the current musical custodian of this choir, with so much history and astonishing past Musical Directors...

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 20/07/2025

Enjoyed a surprise appearance on BBC One today...recorded back in March 2022. Watch on iPlayer here: www.bbc.co.uk/.../songs-of...

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 20/07/2025

Fantastic year with these young singers, just part of our 7000+ children a week singing programme. A wonderful cathedral choir based in whole-class STATE SCHOOL singing - a privilege to direct them. Also very pleased that the summer holiday is starting!

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 31/05/2025

Our Choral Director vacancy closes on Monday at 5pm! A superb opportunity to direct two of our outstanding choirs and deliver our Schools Singing Programme to schools in the Blessed Christopher Wharton Trust. Visit dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/ for more details and the application pack.

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 30/04/2025

Come and work with us! A lovely job with two super choirs and a brilliant team of colleagues. dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 04/04/2025

First day of the holidays, so naturally have chosen to do an organ recital...

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 01/04/2025

Fantastic gig, great to work with you all!

Bradford Festival Choral Society @bfcs1856.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

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Today! Concert day is here. Next stop: rehearsal in the hall where it all comes together with the choir, orchestra and soloists ahead of our audience joining us this evening. 🎟️Bradford Theatre website - search ‘Carmina’ and don’t miss out on this thrilling live music. @visitbradford.bsky.social

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 28/03/2025

Really looking forward to conducting Reena Esmail's This love between us - tomorrow, St George's Hall, Bradford. A moving and exhilarating setting of seven multi-faith texts - was really inspiring to speak to Reena about this work, and hope we do it justice tomorrow!

Bradford Festival Choral Society @bfcs1856.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

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2 more sleeps! We hope locals have seen the great feature about our 29 March orchestral season gig in St George’s Hall with Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra in today’s Bradford T&A 🎶Choir sounding thrilling in rehearsal last night; don’t miss this one! 🎟️Tickets: Bradford Theatres @thomasleech.com

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 23/03/2025

Back to normality this week...

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 22/03/2025

Assistant Director of the Schools Singing Programme - Diocese of Leeds Music The deadline for this lovely job is Monday 5pm! The past few days have really reinforced what an amazing team of colleagues we have - come and work with us! dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/

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Vacancies at Diocese of Leeds Music

Current opportunities for Choral Directors, organists and choral and organ scholars in an award-winning music programme.

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 21/03/2025

And lovely playing from you! Thanks!

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 21/03/2025

📣 brilliant work from our cathedral choir broadcasting live on Radio 3 on Wednesday - 150+ singers in the cathedral choirs, 400+ in our wider after-school choirs, and 6500+ singing every week in our sustained state-school music programme...no crisis in cathedral music here! 📣

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 03/03/2025

Come and work with us! Laura is moving on after doing a fabulous job building our choir school provision and connecting with schools across our programme. A lovely team of colleagues, plenty of flexibility and opportunity and the children are great! dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 01/03/2025

Looking forward - with the usual trepidation - to this! Wonderful to have our boys, girls and teenage t/b from state schools across the city singing some of their great heritage of Catholic music live on BBC Radio 3. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Leeds Cathedral

Choral Vespers for the Solemnity of St Joseph live from Leeds Cathedral.

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 24/02/2025

Getting round to reading the Music Mark / @demos-uk.bsky.social NPME report... 'music is too often a peripheral part of children and young people’s education, with pupils’ backgrounds and where they grow up shaping the opportunities they can access' demos.co.uk/wp-content/u...

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 24/02/2025

Looking forward to this, with a live chat with Reena Esmail, and introduction to Indian classical singing with Sohini Kaur - should be a great event and still some places left.

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 09/02/2025

This week at Leeds Cathedral...

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 26/01/2025

Off to work...playing the organ this morning, a bit sad not to be conducting Victoria's glorious Missa Vidi speciosam, but great for colleagues to get the chance to do this!

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 25/01/2025

Closing on Monday 5pm - a really great role, could be September start for a graduate. Happy to answer any questions! Cathedral Organist and Director of LIOF Visit dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies for more information and to download an application pack.

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 12/01/2025

Back into the swing of term(ish), and - shock / horror - playing the organ occasionally this term! Lovely for the choirs to have my colleagues conducting, and really good to get the changed aural perspective you have playing rather than directing, I find I listen very differently...

Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 30/12/2024

Peak holiday activity. Happy Christmas!

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Ann OFlynn @anniemozz.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Rightly proud @thomasleech.com a model of inclusivity & excellence, producing beautiful music that’s a joy to hear 🎶

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 27/12/2024

So proud of our young singers - state school choristers from across the city live on national radio (again!) - and the brilliant work my colleagues do across our programmes. Lovely to do this to an absolutely packed cathedral too - Happy Christmas! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Midnight Mass - BBC Sounds

The traditional Christmas Eve celebration of Midnight Mass, live from Leeds Cathedral.

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 21/12/2024

The final push...including Radio 4 Midnight Mass. All the best to all fellow church musicians (and other choral people still going) for the next few days!

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 01/12/2024

Beautiful (and slightly alarming!) music this morning at work - and wonderful that this is all sung by a large choir with its foundations in whole-class primary school singing. We've also got four other children's choirs singing for Mass across the Diocese this morning - hundreds of young singers!

Bradford Festival Choral Society @bfcs1856.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

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All you locals: have you seen our Christmas concert banners? Here is tenor Mark, our super treasurer, next to the festive display outside Bradford Grammar School! Join us for a magical evening of music and tradition on Sat 14 Dec. Get your tickets now to avoid the queues! 🎶🎄

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 26/11/2024

Organists! Come and work with us! This role's very flexible - I'm very happy to chat to anyone interested, and we welcome visits to find out more about our work. Visit dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies for more information and to download an application pack.

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Andrew Griffiths @colla-voce.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A big Bluesky welcome to my lovely @londiniumchoir.bsky.social! Give them a follow (and a listen)?

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 24/11/2024

This week's sung Masses at Leeds Cathedral - looking forward to the Andriessen Mass, despite some tenor absence this morning!

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Tom Leech @thomasleech.com · 23/11/2024

The pace of renovation has slowed to an absolute crawl, but I did finally fit some temporary curtains to this bay today...given the pace, temporary probably means decades...