Cuore’s world-class professional musicians pursue their ambitious inaugural season with a debut performance at the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds on 6th March 2026. This follows their acclaimed launch and season opening concerts at the Royal Hall, Harrogate.
‘Cuore is an orchestra to serve the whole of Yorkshire’ says Leeds-born founder and Artistic Director William Dutton ‘and we are so excited to be launching into our region’s biggest city’.
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The concert will be presented in a fundraising partnership with Leeds-based charity St Gemma’s Hospice, an organisation founded nearly 50 years ago with the help of Dutton’s grandfather Professor Gerald Richards.
‘It is an honour to be working in partnership with such an important organisation, so central to the city of Leeds.’ says Dutton. ‘Although our two charities are very different in nature, we have a common aim of serving the community at its very heart’.
The evening’s performance will feature the national premiere of Anglo-Italian composer Elisabetta Brusa’s ‘Simply Largo’ and the concert will also feature works by Purcell, Parry and Dvorak. Cuore is dedicated to performing works by British composers, having already showcased pieces by Berkeley, Holst and Elgar in their first two concerts.
After positive reviews of their first two concerts both regionally and nationally, Cuore is thrilled to be contributing to the cultural output of celebrations to mark 400 years of Leeds as a city.
For further information please contact Christopher Barnes, Cuore’s General Secretary on christopher@cuorechamberorchestra.com
- Cuore is a new, professional Chamber Orchestra for Yorkshire, showcasing orchestral music in the heart of the region. It brings together some of the best young musicians in the UK and their goal is to show just how breathtaking a concert experience can be.
- Alongside their concerts, Cuore has a vocation to deliver educational outreach programmes to enhance the musical awareness and participation of schoolchildren in Yorkshire as well as igniting and nurturing musical interest and knowledge in the younger generations.
- William Dutton, Cuore’s Founder and Artistic Director, won the Strings Final of BBC Young Musician of the Year and was the first British conductor admitted to the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan, where he studied with Gilberto Serembe.
