Friday 1 July LEEDS
Simon Lindley (Leeds Parish Church), Lunchtime Organ Recital of Bach and Dupré; in Leeds Parish Church
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
12.30pm
Friday 1 July GATESHEAD
Roger Muttitt , (Durham) organ recital as part of the "Durham organists" series; St.George, Gateshead
Admission by programme
7.30pm - wine and canapés from 6.45pm
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Friday 1 July YORK
Chapter House Choir, 'Songs of the Spirit' - works by Holst, Parry, Delius, Harris and Mantjarvi; in the Chapter House, York Minster
Tickets: £10 (concs) see website
8.00pm
Saturday 2 July WAKEFIELD
Thomas Moore (Wakefield, Asst), Organ Recital; in Wakefield Cathedral
Admission: see website
11.30am
Saturday 2 July BRINKBURN Hotel?
The King’s Singers - Masterclass A rare opportunity to watch as a local boys’ choir are inspired by the masters of a cappella harmony, culminating in a short performance; in Brinkburn Priory, Longramlington, Morpeth
Tickets: (concs); For more details, Tel 01665 570 628 or see Concerts website
2.00pm
Saturday 2 July SUNDERLAND
North of England Chamber Orchestra with Cantamus Girls Choir, Judith Howarth (Soprano), conducted by Stephen Bulla; as part of the Exhilarate Festival; The Venerable Bede Church of England School, Tunstall Bank, Sunderland
Admission: £10 (concs) - details see website
7.30pm

Saturday 2 July BRINKBURN Hotel?
The King’s Singers sing Tallis and Orlando Gibbons, to Górecki and Stravinsky; in Brinkburn Priory, Longramlington, Morpeth
Tickets: (concs); For more details, Tel 01665 570 628 or see Concerts website
7.30pm
Sunday 3 July NEWCASTLE
Musica Johannis sing from 'Tallis to Tippett' a concert in support of St John's; St John's Church, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Admission £6 (concs)
6.45pm
Monday 4 July NEWCASTLE
Paul Derrett (Holy Trinity, Hull) lunchtime recital in St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Admission free, retiring collection.
1.00pm
Monday 4 July LEEDS
Elli Glarou organ recital; St Bartholomew's, Armley
Admission: £6
7.30pm
Wednesday 6 July BRADFORD
Paul Bowen, with Dawn Bowen (Bradford Cathedral), Organ Recital; in Bradford Cathedral
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
1.05pm - preceded by lunch at 12.40pm
Wednesday 6 July DURHAM
Colin Andrews and Janette Fishell organ recital in Durham Cathedral;
Admission free, retiring collection. See website
7.30pm
Thursday 7 July YORK
Matthew Atherton an organ recital as part of the Northern Aldborough Music Festival; at St. Mary's Church Nun Monkton nr York
Admission: £8 including refreshments
11.00am
Thursday 7 July RIPON
Ripon Cathedral Organists’ Summer Spectacular lunchtime Organ Recital;
in Ripon Cathedral
Admission free. see website
1.15pm
Thursday 7 July LEEDS
Christopher Newton (St Bartholomew's, Armley) organ recital; St Bartholomew's, Armley
Admission: £6
7.30pm
Friday 8 July LEEDS
Simon Lindley (Leeds Parish Church), Lunchtime Organ Recital of Bach and Dupré; in Leeds Parish Church
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
12.30pm
Friday 8 July YORK Hotel?
The Tallis Scholars, 'Father of English Church Music: Tallis at 500'; in the Nave, York Minster
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £10 - £20 (concs) see website
7.30pm
Saturday 9 July WAKEFIELD
Alessandro Bianchi (Italy), Organ Recital; in Wakefield Cathedral
Admission: see website
11.30am
Saturday 9 July YORK Hotel?
BBC Early Music Show, ; National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: SOLD OUT; see website
1.00pm
Saturday 9 July YORK Hotel?
Handel's Extraordinary Divas, Lynne Dawson (soprano) with the University of York Baroque Ensemble; in the Nave, York Minster
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £10 (concs) see website
4.00pm
Saturday 9 July YORK Hotel?
Il Canto Delle Donne: Female Composers of the Italian Seicento, Maria Cristina Kiehr and Concerto Soave, highlighting the achievements of the talented generation of female composers at work in Italy in the 17th century; St Olave's Church, Marygate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £15 (concs) see website
7.00pm
Saturday 9 July HESSLE
Paul Derrett (Holy Trinity, hull) organ recital; All Saints’ Church Hessle
Admission: £6 - details see website
7.30pm
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Saturday 9 July CARLISLEHotel?
Manchester Camerata with David Gibbs, perform Poulenc’s Organ Concerto, with works by Elgar and Grieg’s Holberg Suite; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
Saturday 9 July WAKEFIELD
Music for Brass and Voices, the Yorkshire Philharmonic Choir with Horbury Victoria Band, conductor Andrew Padmore; Wakefield Cathedral
Admission: £10 (concs) call 01924 364862 orsee website
7.30pm
Saturday 9 July HEXHAM
Peter Barley (St Patrick's Dublin) Organ Recital; Hexham Abbey, Hexham
Admission: £7/£6 - details see website
7.30pm
Sunday 10 July YORK Hotel?
The Orchestra of La Serenissima with Mhairi Lawson (soprano), 'Vivaldi and the Girls of the Ospedale della Pieta' - a concert by one of Britain’s brightest young baroque ensembles; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 (concs) see website
7.00pm
Sunday 10 July CARLISLE Hotel?
Tallis by Candlelight including the forty part motet 'Spem in alium' and the Lamentations; 2005 marks the 500th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Tallis; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
Sunday 10 July YORK Hotel?
¡AY MI ALHAMA!, Catherine Bott soprano David Miller lute, demonstrate the passionate complexities of the multicultural society that was 15th-century Spain; St Mary’s Church Bishophill, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £15 (concs) see website
10.00pm
Monday 11 July NEWCASTLE
Peter Barley (St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin) lunchtime recital in St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Admission free, retiring collection. See website
1.00pm
Monday 11 July YORK Hotel?
Hail Bright Cecilia! Great Patroness of us all!, Yorkshire Baroque Soloists under Peter Seymour (director, organ), with a celebration of music for St Cecilia’s Day; Chapter House, York Minster, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 (concs) see website
7.00pm
Monday 11 July LEEDS
Graham Barber (St Bartholomew's, Armley) organ recital; St Bartholomew's, Armley
Admission: £6
7.30pm
Monday 11 July CARLISLEHotel?
Tim Ravalde organ recital in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
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Monday 11 July YORK Hotel?
More Music for Cecilia from the Yorkshire Baroque Soloists under Peter Seymour (director, organ), Henry Purcell Come ye sons of art away (Ode for Queen Mary’s Birthday) Hail bright Cecilia!; Chapter House, York Minster, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 (concs) see website
9.30pm
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Tuesday 12 July YORK Hotel?
Queen of Heaven: The Blessed Virgin's Champion, Jason Darnell, Joshua Ellicott tenors, David Miller chittarone and Peter Seymour organ;
A concert revealing the dazzling magnificence of the music heard in Queen Henrietta Maria's chapel; Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £10 (concs) see website
1.00pm

Tuesday 12 July YORK Hotel?
London Baroque with Emma Kirkby, 'PALLAS NORDICA: QUEEN CHRISTINA IN ROME';
; Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 (concs) see website
7.30pm
Tuesday 12 July CARLISLEHotel?
Music for a While, James Bowman countertenor, John Turner recorder, Jonathan Price cello, Ian Thompson harpsichord with a a programme of baroque and contemporary music; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
Wednesday 13 July YORK Hotel?
Trobairitz, Faye Newton soprano Hazel Brooks vielle, with songs by female troubadours and trouvères from 12th- and 13th-century France; All Saints Church, North Street, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £10 (concs) see website
1.00pm
Wednesday 13 July DURHAM
James Lancelot organ recital in Durham Cathedral; The use of the motif B-A-C-H before and after J S Bach;
Admission; £7, £5, at the door
7.30pm
Wednesday 13 July YORK Hotel?
Tonus Peregrinus, The true story of Guillaume de Machaut and Perrone D'Armentieres; National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £12.50 (concs) see website
7.00pm
Thursday 14 July YORK
Alla Francesca , music for Eleanor of Aquitaine faturing voice, harp, percussions, recorders, transverse flute, pipe & tabor, bagpipes; in the Chapter House, York Minster
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 see website
7.30pm
Friday 15 July CARLISLEHotel?
Bach Coffee Cantata ; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
11.00am
Friday 15 July LEEDS
Elli Glarou (Leeds University), Lunchtime Organ Recital of Bach and Dupré; in Leeds Parish Church
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
12.30pm
Friday 15 July CULLERCOATS
Music for Organ and Trumpet Paul Ritchie and Marion Wilson, play Purcell, Clarke, Stanley andPeeters; St George's Church, Cullercoats
Admission by programme
7.30pm
Friday 15 July CARLISLEHotel?
Robert Poulton and Angela Livingstone (baritone & piano) with a programme of operatic arias, the music of Gilbert and Sullivan and songs from the shows; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
Friday 15 July YORK
Musica Of Antiqua of London, Clare Wilkinson mezzo-soprano with a concert evoking the sophisticated milieu of the Mantuan court of the great Renaissance marchioness, Isabella d’Este; in St Olave’s Church, Marygate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £15 see website
7.00pm
Friday 15 July YORK
Joglaresa, music for Mary Magdalen, The Middle Ages’ favourite female saint after the Virgin Mary; in St Mary's Church, Bishophill, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £10 see website
10.00pm
Friday 15 July CARLISLEHotel?
David Briggs (organ) with a Live Improvisation to Hunchback of Notre Dame; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
10.00pm
Saturday 16 July WAKEFIELD
Katherine Dienes (St Mary's, Warwick), Organ Recital; in Wakefield Cathedral
Admission: see website
11.30am
Saturday 16 July CARLISLEHotel?
Short but Sweet a Lunchtime recital by Pat Pictor (soprano) and Jeremy Suter (organ); in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
12.45pm
Saturday 16 July HEXHAM
Organ Students give a lunchtime organ recital in Hexham Abbey;
Admission free, retiring collection.
1.00pm
Saturday 16 July YORK
Musicians of the Globe, Ravishing and rarely performed lute songs, consort songs, lute and harpsichord duets, broken consort settings and dances by musicians intimately or closely associated with the Virgin Queen; National Centre for Early Music, St Margaret’s Church, Walmgate, York
part of the York Early Music Festival
Tickets: £20 see website
8.00pm
Monday 18 July NEWCASTLE
Paul Ritchie (St George, Cullercoats) lunchtime recital in St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Admission free, retiring collection. See website
1.00pm
Monday 18 July LEEDS
John Scott Whitely (York Minster) organ recital; St Bartholomew's, Armley
Admission: £6
7.30pm
July CARLISLEHotel?
Handel's 'Israel in Egypt' The Wordsworth Singers, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama Orchestra and soloists, conducted by James Grossmith; in Carlisle Cathedral
part of Carlisle Summer Festival see website
Tickets: online booking
7.30pm
Wednesday 20 July DURHAM
Christopher Totney organ recital in Durham Cathedral;
Admission; £7, £5, at the door
7.30pm

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Friday 22 July DURHAM
James Lancelot a special organ recital for Federation of Cathedral Old Choristers Associations; in Durham Cathedral;
Admission; £7, £5, at the door
6.15pm
Friday 22 July LEEDS
Celebrity Guest Organist (tba), Lunchtime Organ Recital of Bach and Dupré; in Leeds Parish Church
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
12.30pm
Saturday 23 July WAKEFIELD
Thomas Leech (Ripon Cathedral), Organ Recital; in Wakefield Cathedral
Admission: see website
11.30am

Saturday 23 July BEVERLEY Hotel?
Ian Hare, organ recital in Beverley Minster
Tickets: £5-6, tel 01964 544145
6.00pm
Monday 25 July NEWCASTLE
Sean Montgomery (All Saints Royal Leamington Spa) lunchtime recital in St Nicholas Cathedral, Newcastle upon Tyne;
Admission free, retiring collection. See website
1.00pm
Wednesday 27 July DURHAM
Keith Wright organ recital in Durham Cathedral;
Admission; £7, £5, at the door
7.30pm
Thursday 28 July RIPON
Norwich Cathedral Girls’ Choir lunchtime Recital;
in Ripon Cathedral
Admission free. see website
1.15pm
Friday 29 July LEEDS
Simon Lindley (Leeds Parish Church), Lunchtime Organ Recital of Bach and Dupré; in Leeds Parish Church
Admission: free, retiring collection - see website
12.30pm
Saturday 30 July CULLERCOATS
Carlene Mills (~Oundle Awar Winner), on the TC Lewis organ of St George's Church, Cullercoats
Admission by programme
7.30pm
Saturday 30 July DURHAM
Dr. Richard Fenwick (Dean of Monmouth), organ recital on the new 3 manual 41 stop Makin organ in Haltwhistle Parish Church;
Admission; by programme at the door
7.30pm
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