Undergraduate courses at Leeds Conservatoire are known as pathways; genres and styles of music that students choose to major in.

[9] The conservatoire also offers a one-year Foundation Degree certificate providing students with an extra year before commencing their undergraduate study.

This also includes Leeds Junior Conservatoire, previously known as the Saturday Music School, which runs courses available to children from ages 9–18.

[17] In 1997, the conservatoire was moved to purpose-built premises on Quarry Hill, neighbouring with the Leeds Playhouse, Northern Ballet and the BBC Yorkshire building.

[24] Following the library's relocation, the conservatoire invested £0.5 million to refurbish the fifth floor of the main building with new practice rooms and study space.

This includes classical pianist John Barstow, jazz pianists David Newton and Nikki Iles, saxophonists Pete Wareham and Alan Barnes, trumpeters Chris Batchelor and Richard Iles, horn player Alastair Hanson and guitarists Nick Webb and Giuliano Modarelli.

Snake Davis,[30] John Thirkell, Adrian Snell, Matthew Bourne, James Lynch of Touch and Go, Michael Spearman of Everything Everything, Geoff Downes of Yes and Asia, Chris Sharkey of Trio VD and Acoustic Ladyland, Ryan and Gary Jarman of The Cribs, James Yeoburn Mark Holub and Brett Domino are also associated with the conservatoire.

Dave Bainbridge, guitarist with Iona and later keyboards player for Strawbs, also studied there and won the BBC Radio 2 Best Jazz soloist award whilst at the conservatoire.

[31] We Are Domi, the group who represented the Czech Republic at the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, met and formed at the conservatoire.

[33] Jazz musicians Neil Yates, Nikki Iles, Mornington Lockett, Dave O'Higgins, Omar Puente, Louise Gibbs, Peter Churchill have previously taught at the conservatoire, as has the saxophone specialist Richard Ingham.