Christopher Pelly is a conductor, trumpeter, pianist and singer. He also plays the organ, the tuba and various percussion instruments when the occasion permits. He recently performed for the first time on the bass trumpet with Leeds Symphony Orchestra.
Christopher is the musical director of Otley Chamber Orchestra, a former musical director of Mirfield Choral Society and a frequent guest conductor for West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. Christopher has a keen interest in Opera, and has conducted three operas with Northern Opera Group: Alfred (Thomas Arne), Cendrillon (Pauline Viardot) and Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford). In February 2018 he was musical director for a production of Hello Dolly at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford with Buttershaw St Paul’s AODS.
When not conducting, Christopher can regularly be found in pit orchestras playing trumpet or piano, or accompanying rehearsals for various groups around Leeds and West Yorkshire. He has also been a member of the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (CCL) chamber choir since coming to Leeds in 2009 to study music at the University. In March 2016 Christopher conducted the CCL and LHP in a joint performance of Haydn’s 'Theresienmesse', and the groups are coming together again this March to perform the 'Paukenmesse' (Missa in tempore Belli). In 2015 Christopher took on the role of Concert Series Administrator at the University of Leeds.
Christopher became the conductor of the Leeds Haydn Players in 2013, and since then has conducted the orchestra in performances of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and CPE Bach; concertos by Haydn, Mozart and Hummel; Haydn's Mass in B flat, the Theresienmesse and other works by these composers, as well as Handel and Wagner.
Christopher is the musical director of Otley Chamber Orchestra, a former musical director of Mirfield Choral Society and a frequent guest conductor for West Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. Christopher has a keen interest in Opera, and has conducted three operas with Northern Opera Group: Alfred (Thomas Arne), Cendrillon (Pauline Viardot) and Much Ado About Nothing (Stanford). In February 2018 he was musical director for a production of Hello Dolly at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford with Buttershaw St Paul’s AODS.
When not conducting, Christopher can regularly be found in pit orchestras playing trumpet or piano, or accompanying rehearsals for various groups around Leeds and West Yorkshire. He has also been a member of the Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (CCL) chamber choir since coming to Leeds in 2009 to study music at the University. In March 2016 Christopher conducted the CCL and LHP in a joint performance of Haydn’s 'Theresienmesse', and the groups are coming together again this March to perform the 'Paukenmesse' (Missa in tempore Belli). In 2015 Christopher took on the role of Concert Series Administrator at the University of Leeds.
Christopher became the conductor of the Leeds Haydn Players in 2013, and since then has conducted the orchestra in performances of symphonies by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and CPE Bach; concertos by Haydn, Mozart and Hummel; Haydn's Mass in B flat, the Theresienmesse and other works by these composers, as well as Handel and Wagner.