The Choir of Leeds Parish Church offers Choral Scholarships to
Male Undergraduate Students [Altos - Countertenors, Tenors and Basses]
at universities, colleges and other further education institutes.
Wot? No gap years?
Unlike many choral foundations, Leeds has no resident Choir School and the Parish Church no properties. We much regret that "Gap Year" opportunities can only be offered to those whose accommodation/employment arrangements remain their own responsibility.
Choral Scholar duties
Wednesday
4.45 pm Full Practice
5.30 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir]
Thursday
4.45 pm Full Practice
5.30 pm Choral Evensong, Choral Eucharist or Compline [Men's Voices]
Friday
6.15 pm Full Practice
7.00 pm Choral Evensong [Full Choir]
7.45 pm Full Practice, till 9.00 pm
apart from Weddings [for which an additional fee is payable] there are only very rare commitments on a Saturday - Yorkshire Three Choirs' Festival [October], Yorkshire Cathedrals' Girls' Choirs' Festival [March].
Sunday
10.30 am Choral Eucharist
[9.30 am Full Practice]
[CW Order One, with traditional music – full Mass Setting and two Motets
once a month – Choral Matins [Full Service – both Canticles to a setting, Anthem &c]
once a year – The Litany & 1662 Choral Eucharist inc Choral Creed
6.30 pm Choral Evensong
[5.30 pm Full Practice]
approximately six times each season – once or twice each term
Choral Evensong is at 3.00 pm with no evening commitment after it
sometimes there is a non Evensong 3.00 pm Choral Service with 6.30 Evensong by another group of singers
"Three-Times Sundays" are extremely rare
Specials
on Christmas Eve and Easter Even
4.00 pm Choral Evensong
[3.15 pm Full Practice]
Dependent upon competence, level of commitment and experience, the Church pays between £175 and £250 per student per term and offers subsistence payments of between £50 and £100 per week for Christmas "extra" week and for Holy Week.
Appointments are made by the Master of the Music with the approval of Clergy, Church Wardens and Choir Treasurer and are subject to enhanced CRB disclosure and three personal references.
Former Choral Scholars include
Stephen Connolly [The King's Singers], Simon Bell [Assistant Organist, Southwell Minster], Kieran Cooper [leading Arts Marketing consultant], Peter Gunstone [Director of Music-designate, Lee Abbey, Devon], Rowland Moseley [King's College, Cambridge], Scott Senogles [Huddersfield University], Philip Steel [Commercial Manager, Trinity & All Saints College, Leeds], Shaun Ward [Director of Music, Holy Trinity Hereford].
Former Organ Scholars include Messrs Bell, Cooper, Gunstone, Senogles & Ward above and the first Edward Boyle Organ Scholar in the University of Leeds, leading conductor Darius Battiwalla [Music Director, Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus - conductor, Hallé, Northern Sinfonia, BBC Daily Service &c &c]
FOR FURTHER DETAILS OF CHORAL SCHOLAR MEMBERSHIP OF THE ADULT CHOIR OF LEEDS PARISH CHURCH
please contact Dr Simon Lindley, Organist & Master of the Music
17 Fulneck, Pudsey, LS28 8NT 0113 255 6143 (mostly fax)