Redefining Outreach

Click here to read an article about the 'outreach' singing program here in the Diocese of Leeds. The article is taken from Church Music Quarterly, the magazine of the Royal School of Church Music.


With a readership of 80,000 worldwide, CMQ is an influential periodical illustrating the happenings of the church music world. Each issue offers a wide range of articles and interviews by distinguished musicians, theologians and scholars, providing expert advice, information and inspiration for readers.

Redefining Outreach, written by Benjamin Saunders, Director of Music for the Diocese of Leeds illustrates how the Diocese of Leeds has broken new ground in its Diocesan singing program. Unlike the traditional Anglican Cathedral model, here in the Diocese of Leeds we consider all of our singing schools to be 'Choir schools' in their own right - each receiving training from high calibre cathedral musicians.

This article was published in ‘Church Music Quarterly’ June 2007 and is reproduced with permission of The Royal School of Church Music, with thanks. It may not be further reproduced without the permission of the RSCM.