Royal School of Church Music
For more than three-quarters of a century, the choir has sustained links with the Royal School of Church Music whose founder Sir Sydney Nicholson was a friend of Leeds churchwarden Herbert Bacon Smith, the choir treasurer. The church organist Simon Lindley is an RSCM special commissioner. In Summer 2009, 2010 and 2011, Dr Lindley directed the Ripon and Leeds Area Diocesan Choirs' Festival on the occasion of the presentation of the dean's and bishops' choristers' awards within the diocese; the services in 2009, 2011 and 2012 were held at the Parish Church and that for 2010 at Ripon Cathedral.
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