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2026/27 Season

4th September: Oriana Chamber Choir, George Loughlin St Cecilia's Day, Huddersfield, UK
17th October: Conductor for Haydn St Nicholas Mass, with Vocalis and the Dales Ensemble, Harrogate, UK
24th October: Conductor for Mozart Requiem, Coronation Mass and Clarinet Concerto (II. Adagio), with Overgate Hospice Choir and the National Festival Orchestra, Halifax Minster, UK
7th November: Conductor for Puccini Messa di Gloria, St John's Church, Ben Rhydding, UK
12th/14th/15th/16th-18th November: Kantos Chamber Choir, Brontë programme, Lancaster/Stoller Hall, Manchester/Haworth/audio & video recording, UK
3rd/5th December: Kantos Chamber Choir, Candlelit Carols, Chester/Manchester, UK
6th December: Handel Messiah with Manchester Camerata & Kantos, dir. Laurence Cummings, Manchester, UK. 

More to follow...

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2025/26 Season

18th/19th September: Invited speaker, Musicological Symposium of the George Enescu Festival, Bucharest, Romania
18th October: Conductor for Brahms Requiem, Halifax Minster, UK
1st November: Conductor for Brahms Requiem, St John's Church, Ben Rhydding, UK
8th November: Conductor for Frank Martin Mass for Double Choir and Fauré Requiem, with Vocalis and the Dales Ensemble, Harrogate, UK

20th/21st/22nd November: Invited speaker, inaugural conference of the Centre for Research in Central and East European Music, Gheorghe Dima National Music Academy, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
5th December: Handel Messiah with Manchester Camerata and Kantos, dir. Laurence Cummings, Hanley, Stoke-upon-Trent, UK
6th December: Tenor soloist for Dvorak Mass in D and Parry Hear My Words, Ye People, Skipton Choral Society, Skipton, UK
7th December: Conductor for Vocalis Christmas Concert, Harrogate, UK
13th December: Conductor for Cantores Olicanae Christmas Concert, Ilkley, UK
20th December: Conductor for Overgate Hospice Choir Christmas Concert, with Hammonds Band, Halifax Minster, UK
6th March: Armonico Consort, dir. Christopher Monks, Forgotten Scarlatti, Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, UK
7th March: Conductor, On With the Show, Overgate Hospice Choir, All Saints Church, Elland, UK
14th March: Conductor, Passion and Adoration, Vocalis Chamber Choir, Wesley Chapel, Harrogate, UK
19th March: Kantos Chamber Choir, Helios, Victoria Baths, Manchester, UK
21st March: Conductor, Ave Maria, Cantores Olicanae, St John's Church, Ben Rhydding, UK
18th April: Kantos Chamber Choir, Take Flight, Stoller Hall, Manchester, UK
13th June: Conductor, Feel The Spirit, Overgate Hospice Choir and Hammonds Band, St Paul King Cross, Halifax, UK
20th June: Conductor, A Night at the Theatre, Cantores Olicanae, St John's Church, Ben Rhydding, UK
27th June: Conductor, Ilkley Three Choirs, St Margaret's Church, Ilkley, UK
12th July: Conductor, Deep River, Vocalis, St Wilfred's Church, Harrogate, UK
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2024/25 Season

21st/22nd September: Kantos Chamber Choir, Brontë programme, Manchester and Haworth, UK
19th October: Conductor for Haydn The Creation, Overgate Hospice Choir, Halifax Minster, UK
26th October: Conductor for Cantores Olicanae's A Picture of Dorian Gray: music reflecting the beautiful and the grotesque, Ben Rhydding, UK
9th November: Conducting Howells Requiem and other works, Vocalis, Harrogate, UK
23rd November: Tenor soloist for Wetherby Choral Society's performance of Handel's Saul, Wetherby, UK
6th December: Conductor for Vocalis Christmas Concert, including Britten Ceremony of Carols, Harrogate, UK
10th/11th/12th/15th/18th December: Handel Messiah tour with the English Concert, dir. Harry Bickett, Madrid, Spain; Southampton, UK; Udine, Italy; San Sebastian, Spain
19th December: Conducting Cantores Olicanae Christmas Concert, Ben Rhydding, UK
21st December: Conducting Overgate Hospice Choir Christmas Concert with Hammond's Band, Halifax Minster, UK
24th/25th January, 2025: Armonico Consort, Supersize Polyphony, dir. Christopher Monks. Malvern Theatres, Malvern and St Mary's Church, Warwick, UK 
1st February: Conductor for Come and Sing Fauré Requiem, Ben Rhydding, UK
15th March: Conductor for Cantores Olicanae Songs of Springtime concert, Ben Rhydding, UK
22nd March: Conductor for Handel Messiah, Overgate Hospice Choir and National Festival Orchestra, All Saints Church, Elland, UK
29th March: Conductor for Vocalis concert My Spirit Sang all Day, Knaresborough, UK
5th April: Tenor soloist (arias), Bach St John Passion, Ripon Cathedral, UK
11th/12th/13th April, 2025: Kantos, Rest Soft, Hallé St Peter's Manchester / Leeds Minster / Bolton Priory, UK
18th April, 2025: Polyphony, dir. Stephen Layton, Bach St John Passion, Sinfonia Smith Square, London, UK
21st June, 2025: Conductor, Hope Springs in Song, Overgate Hospice Choir and Hi-Notes, All Saints Elland, UK
28th June, 2025: Conductor, Songs from the Shows, Cantores Olicanae with Ermysteds School Swing Band, Ben Rhydding, UK

5th July, 2025: Conductor, Come into the Garden, Vocalis, Birstwith, UK
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2023/24 Season

22nd September: Jolas Concerto-Fantaisie 'O night, oh', BBC Singers & Nicolas Hodges, dir. Sofi Jeannin, London, UK
14th October: Conductor for Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Overgate Hospice Choir, Halifax Minster, UK
10th November: Tavener Remembered - Cambridge Festival, BBC Singers, dir. Daniel Hyde, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, UK
11th November: Conducting Michael Haydn Requiem & Mozart Vesperae solennes de confessore, Cantores Olicanae, Ilkley, UK
9th December: Conductor for Cantores Olicanae Christmas Concert, Ben Rhydding, UK
10th/12th December: Handel/Mozart Messiah, BBC Singers & Britten Sinfonia, dir. Sofi Jeannin, Saffron Hall, Essex, UK; Barbican Hall, London, UK
16th December: Conductor for Overgate Hospice Choir & Hammonds Band Christmas Concert, Halifax Minster, UK
3rd February: Evangelist for Come & Sing Bach St John Passion, Otley, UK
2nd March: Conductor for Overgate Hospice Choir Hope Springs in Song concert, Elland, UK
9th March: Tenor soloist (arias) for Ilkley & Otley Choral Societies' joint performance of Bach, St John Passion, Otley, UK
16th March: Conductor for My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land, Cantores Olicanae, Ben Rhydding, UK
8th June: Conductor for Overgate Hospice Choir & Hammonds Band Summer Concert Raise the Curtain, Elland, UK
15th June: Conducting Cantores Olicanae Summer Jazz Concert: Chilcott, Shearing & Rutter, Ilkley, UK
22nd June: Tenor soloist in Ilkley & Otley Choral Societies' joint performance of Mozart, Mass in C Minor, Ilkley, UK
29th June: Tenor soloist in Wetherby Choral Society's Vivaldi, Introduction & Gloria and Handel Dettingen Te Deum, Wetherby, UK
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