St Peter's Singers is a mixed choir of about forty voices based in the City of Leeds, directed by Simon Lindley. For well over thirty years the Singers have enjoyed a close relationship with Leeds Parish Church (St Peter-at-Leeds), where many of our concerts and liturgical appearances take place. At the same time, the choir performs at many other venues in and around Leeds, including Leeds Town Hall, St Anne's Roman Catholic Cathedral and Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane to name but a few. York Minster has been the venue for three memorable presentations in recent years, and the choir sang Evensong at St Paul's Cathedral on Easter Monday in 2005 and 2008.

The choir sustains an enviable reputation for the performance of standard baroque choral works involving the presentation of major repertoire by Bach and Handel in association with St Peter's Chamber Orchestra. Messiah and the B-Minor Mass are regularly presented as well as Bach's two great Passion settings. Other masterpieces by Monteverdi, Mozart and Haydn are not neglected, and in 2000, 2007 and 2009 Elgar's Dream of Gerontius received memorable and passionate performances on Good Friday of the years in question.

But the choir is equally at home in a cappella and organ-accompanied programmes blending Renaissance masterpieces with modern English repertoire, commissioning a fine Stabat Mater from Francis Jackson. SPS has also become well-known for its revival of two major monodramas by actor-dramatist John Stuart Anderson with music by Francis Jackson (Daniel in Babylon, available on Amphion PHI 145 and A Time of Fire - a fascinating account of the life and times of biblical translator William Tyndale, on Amphion PHI 146). A Time of Fire was performed in Ely Cathedral in Summer 2004, and in Derby Cathedral in 2005, the latter being attended by the composer.

Welcome collaborations with other choirs have included participation in the memorable 40th anniversary celebrations of the Chapter House Choir of York under the direction of Stephen Williams, formerly a member of St Peter's Singers and now a leading choral conductor and Director of Music at Uppingham. A very happy association is sustained with Dr Donald Hunt and the Elgar Chorale of Worcester and the members of St Peter’s Singers have visited Worcester Cathedral several times in the past few years for major Elgar concerts in the Elgar anniversaries of 2007 and 2009; most recently, SPS took part in The Dream of Gerontius at Worcester in Spring 2010 as the closing concert in the 50th Bromsgrove Festival.

In recent years the choir has undertaken a number of recordings, including Christopher Rathbone's fine Requiem (Amphion PHI 505), Madrigals and other pieces from Castle Howard (Amphion PHI 225) and a set of new pieces on a promotional CD for Banks Music Publications, including Stephen Wilkinson's Rorate Coeli and John Powell's lively Welcome Yule. Additionally, the choir has recorded two editions of BBC Radio 2's Sunday Half Hour and participated in a live broadcast of BBC Radio 4's Morning Worship in commemoration of the Centenary of the English Hymnal in 2006.

Future plans include a further live broadcast of Morning Worship to be relayed from the Parish Church in August 2010 on Sunday 15, the day after the 200th anniversary of the birth of the Church's first Organist, Dr Samuel Sebastian Wesley, a Bach Cantata Festival Concert at The Venue on Saturday 4 December 2010, Handel's Israel in Egypt from Leeds Town Hall on Monday lunchtime 21 February 2011, Bach's St. Matthew Passion on 27 March 2011 and, on Good Friday 2011, Dvorak's Stabat Mater and Parry's Blest pair of Sirens, both at Leeds Parish Church.