Tom Leech
@thomasleech.com
Musician.
Director, Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme
Consultant, National Schools Singing Programme
Musical Director, Bradford Festival Choral Society
thomasleech.com
Director, Diocese of Leeds Schools Singing Programme
Consultant, National Schools Singing Programme
Musical Director, Bradford Festival Choral Society
thomasleech.com
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.
October 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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.
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.
Here's this week's music, and our full music list is on our website.
September 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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.
Here's this week's music, and our full music list is on our website.
Big step nominative determinism
July 24, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Big step nominative determinism
Enjoyed a surprise appearance on BBC One today...recorded back in March 2022.
Watch on iPlayer here:
www.bbc.co.uk/.../songs-of...
Watch on iPlayer here:
www.bbc.co.uk/.../songs-of...
July 20, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Enjoyed a surprise appearance on BBC One today...recorded back in March 2022.
Watch on iPlayer here:
www.bbc.co.uk/.../songs-of...
Watch on iPlayer here:
www.bbc.co.uk/.../songs-of...
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!
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!
July 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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!
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!
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.
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.
May 31, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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.
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.
Come and work with us! A lovely job with two super choirs and a brilliant team of colleagues.
dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/
dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/
April 30, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Come and work with us! A lovely job with two super choirs and a brilliant team of colleagues.
dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/
dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/vacancies/
First day of the holidays, so naturally have chosen to do an organ recital...
April 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
First day of the holidays, so naturally have chosen to do an organ recital...
Back to normality this week...
March 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Back to normality this week...
📣 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! 📣
March 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
📣 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! 📣
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
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
March 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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
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
This week at Leeds Cathedral...
February 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
This week at Leeds Cathedral...
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!
January 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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!
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.
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.
January 25, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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.
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.
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...
January 12, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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...
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!
All the best to all fellow church musicians (and other choral people still going) for the next few days!
December 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM
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!
All the best to all fellow church musicians (and other choral people still going) for the next few days!
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!
We've also got four other children's choirs singing for Mass across the Diocese this morning - hundreds of young singers!
December 1, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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!
We've also got four other children's choirs singing for Mass across the Diocese this morning - hundreds of young singers!
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.
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.
November 26, 2024 at 11:21 AM
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.
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.
This week's sung Masses at Leeds Cathedral - looking forward to the Andriessen Mass, despite some tenor absence this morning!
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 AM
This week's sung Masses at Leeds Cathedral - looking forward to the Andriessen Mass, despite some tenor absence this morning!
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...
November 23, 2024 at 6:27 PM
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...
Christmas Christmas Christmas!
With @bfcs1856.bsky.social
Fantastic carols inc Roxanna Panufnik's new Glory be to the Word!
With @bfcs1856.bsky.social
Fantastic carols inc Roxanna Panufnik's new Glory be to the Word!
November 22, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Christmas Christmas Christmas!
With @bfcs1856.bsky.social
Fantastic carols inc Roxanna Panufnik's new Glory be to the Word!
With @bfcs1856.bsky.social
Fantastic carols inc Roxanna Panufnik's new Glory be to the Word!
Baby Jesus: I'm hungry.
Tenors: You need mirth, a heart full...
1911 print from the @bfcs1856.bsky.social library...
Tenors: You need mirth, a heart full...
1911 print from the @bfcs1856.bsky.social library...
November 22, 2024 at 12:38 PM
Baby Jesus: I'm hungry.
Tenors: You need mirth, a heart full...
1911 print from the @bfcs1856.bsky.social library...
Tenors: You need mirth, a heart full...
1911 print from the @bfcs1856.bsky.social library...
So much wonderful music this week...Duruflé Requiem at Leeds Cathedral, a super Jonah Man Jazz at a Beeston primary school, stacks of Tallis and Monteverdi this Sunday morning, and some glorious Rossini tomorrow with the brilliant @kurisup.bsky.social and Bradford Festival Choral Society.
November 15, 2024 at 7:46 PM
So much wonderful music this week...Duruflé Requiem at Leeds Cathedral, a super Jonah Man Jazz at a Beeston primary school, stacks of Tallis and Monteverdi this Sunday morning, and some glorious Rossini tomorrow with the brilliant @kurisup.bsky.social and Bradford Festival Choral Society.