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Lucy Illingworth delights health professionals at CHORAL launch
08 February 2024.
Thirteen year old, Lucy Illingworth delights health professionals, educators and members of the police at the Cloth Hall Court for the launch of CHORAL on a Steinway Model M provided by Besbrode Pianos
How Melvin made an art out of a worldwide sales pitch for pianos
08 September 2015.
Catherine Turnbull reports for The Yorkshire Post on an unlikely business success story hitting the right notes
Pianos pop up in Leeds city centre
24 August 2015.
DOZENS of brightly-decorated pianos are popping up across Leeds as the city tunes up for one of its biggest music competitions
Meet the Leeds man for who piano restoration is big business
21 August 2015.
In an overlooked corner of Leeds, Sheena Hastings discovers the UKs largest piano emporium
Piano-lovers' paradise in Leeds
11 August 2015.
It's well known Leeds hosts one of the biggest piano competitions in the world - but did you know that tucked away in a corner of the city is one of the biggest piano collections in the UK? Helen Steel from Calendar News reports.
22nd August-10th September 2015.
Leeds International Piano Competition in association with Besbrode Pianos Leeds, is proud to present Me & My Piano, an exciting art installation coming to the city of Leeds this summer. Running from 22nd August-10th September 12 pianos will be placed around the city free for the public to play and engage with
"The Eyes of a Mistrusting Elephant"
22nd November to 30th December 2014.
'The Eyes of a Mistrusting Elephant'. Leeds born Artists Emma Pettifer and mother Jackie Waterhouse showcase an eclectic mix of Portraiture, Impressionism and Abstract in mixed media. 22nd November to 30th December 2014
Leeds College of Music Piano Competition
November 23rd 2014 and December 7th 2014.
Leeds College of Music Piano Competition in partnership with Besbrode Pianos. Finals held at Besbrode Pianos on Sunday, December 7th 2014
Joshua Kelly and Gavin Doyle Classical Concert Piano Competition
16th February 2014.
Prior to playing at the Chopin Festival in Warsaw 14.00 on Sunday 16th February 2014 at Besbrode Pianos Leeds
Baltica Charity Concert of Russian Classical Music In Aid of The Russian School Baltica
28th October 2012.
Sasha Volpov (Cello) and Jonathon Duke (Piano)
Pianos take centre stage as exhibition provides a counterpoint to competition
10th August 2012.
An exhibition featuring some of the world’s most luxurious pianos is to be staged when Leeds International Pianoforte Competition begins at the end of August
2th December 2009.
Four professional soloists appearing by kind permission of Opera North will join children from Roundhay Music School for the inaugural Christmas charity concert in The Atrium at the Bexley Wing, St James's Hospital in Leeds. The show goes on after Leeds-based piano dealers Besbrode answered a SOS from the Yorkshire Cancer Centre.
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Kristoffer Zegers Piano Phasing (UK Premiere)
23rd November 2009.
50 pianists and 25 pianos come together in this exciting large-scale performance. Piano Phasing is based on a vision of the work's composer, Kristoffer Zegers. As a child, Zegers was fascinated by the rhythmic phases of church-bells, which never ring in time. When he began to compose, he noticed that even pieces of music with minimal rhythmical differences are sometimes subject to these phases. It is this weakness that is the strongest element of Piano Phasing, making rhythmical variations possible despite the piece being fully composed and notated.
Pianos on move for musical extravaganza
24th November 2009.
Not one but 25 upright pianos were transported from Leeds to Huddersfield yesterday for a performance of Kristoffer Zegers' Piano Phasing – an unusual piece to be played simultaneously by 50 non-professional pianists.
Steinway Showroom Clearance Sale in association with Steinway & Sons
19th and 20th September 2009.
For two days only, you will be able to choose from a wide selection of nearly new, Steinway, Boston and Essex grand and upright pianos
Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 2009
26th August to 13th September 2009.
Besbrode Pianos Leeds is proud to support the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition 2009. Five grand and seven upright pianos were installed in the competitors' rehearsal facilities at Leeds University halls of residence and in our own showrooms.
Pianist Magazine No 49 August - September 2009
August to September 2009.
16 page guide to the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition including Besbrode Pianos Advertorial.
Leeds College of Music 2009 / 10 prospectus
2009 - 2010
Besbrode Pianos Leeds is used as the location for the photo shoot for Leeds College of Music 2009 / 10 prospectus and features on the front cover
Unearthing the history that's lost in music
20th February2009
Young Jazz Musician of the Year Matthew Bourne has been round Yorkshire finding pianos with a story. Hannah Baker talked to Bourne about Songs from a Lost Piano.
27th February 2009
Calling on ghostly memories of hymns, music hall songs and pub sing-a-longs, the brilliantly maverick pianist Matthew Bourne breathes life back into some of Yorkshire's forgotten instruments. He brings with him discarded gems from his search, including the decaying elegance of a piano passed down from mother to daughter, a legless carcass from a Wesleyan Methodist chapel and the faded glamour of a white cocktail grand.
Album: Dave Stapleton & Matthew Bourne, Dismantling the Waterfall
23rd October 2011
There's no show-off virtuosity, but instead a surprisingly winning regard for sound as sound, and an eclectic approach that covers Satie-like sentience, Cecil Taylor knuckle-isms and Viennese abstraction. Recorded at Besbrode Pianos in Leeds, it's the first release of a new record label formed by Stapleton and photographer Tim Dickeson.
10th - 24th March 2008
Fifteen pianos are being dotted around Birmingham as part of a community music project. Fierce Earth, Urban Fusion and Birmingham City Council, working together with international artist Luke Jerram have created a unique community music project titled 'Play me, I'm yours'.
Hello Friends Sculpture unveiling at Bridgewater Place Leeds.
10th December 2007
The Sculpture "Hello Friends" was installed in 2007 in the atrium at Bridgewater Place, Leeds. Artists Bryan and Laura Davies were commissioned in 2006 by the building developers Landmark Development Projects Ltd and St James Securities Ltd, designing and making the work in one year.
The Apprentice: How an 800 year old tradition is still thriving in Germany
2007
31 January 2008: Stefan Walter a 25 year old piano technician and "journeyman" from Germany arrives at Besbrode Pianos Leeds looking for work and brings with him an 800 year old tradition of apprenticeship still thriving in Germany.
22nd - 23rd September 2007
The BBC big piano party, Pianos Everywhere, took place alongside the Leeds International Piano Competition, while the best pianists in the world were right here in Leeds.
Yorkshire jazz star helps Leeds go piano crazy
6th September 2006
LEEDS jazz sensation Peter Grant will perform a one-off concert as part of new event which will see pianos installed at 10 unusual venues across the city.
How Leeds resonated to the sound of more than 1,000 pianists
23rd September 2006
MORE than 1,000 piano players of all ages and abilities tinkled the ivories at unusual locations in Leeds as part of the city's first Pianos Everywhere event
Angela Barnes meets the ivory kings
28th March 2005
Yorkshire duo Melvin Besbrode and Steven Leeming have provided pianos for some of the biggest names in music. Angela Barnes meets the ivory kings.
Jazzman Kevin Pens Musical Self-Portrait
2005
and he has put it on the cover of his CD. Being photographed at the keyboard was the last thing Leeds musician Kevin James wanted on the cover of his latest CD
Matthew Bourne - The Future Sound of Jazz
2005
Despite the rave reviews, his Perrier Young Jazz award, his successat 2002's BBC Jazz awards, his astonishing solo concerts and his UK tour, Matthew Bourne refuses to compromise his music