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HCMF: Evan Johnson

Date: Sat 16th November, 2019Time: 7.00pmVenue: St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield, HD1 3DHCost: Tickets £15 – £18 available online Evan Johnson‘s Linke Hand eines Apostels (Left hand of an apostle) is a reflection on a sketch by Albrecht Dürer, a drawing which attends feverishly to details of vein, bone, skin, draped folds of cloth, and […]

HCMF: Ann Cleare Portrait

Date: Fri 15th November, 2019Time: 9.30pmVenue: Huddersfield Town Hall, Corporation St, Huddersfield, HD1 2TACost: Tickets £15 – £18 available online In the first of two concerts at hcmf// 2019, The Riot Ensemble paints a portrait of Ann Cleare, one of Ireland’s leading modern composers. The first Irish composer to win the Ernst von Siemens award, Cleare’s […]

Mix Tape

Date: Saturday 25th November, 10pm Venue: Bates Mill Blending Shed (HD1 3ER) As part of hcmf//’s 40th Anniversary Festival, we’re bringing two Pauline Oliveros pieces to their closing weekend ‘mix-tape’.  We continue our ongoing interpretations of Pauline’s text scores, with Sarah Dacey’s performance of The autobiography of Lady Steinway (which we gave the UK premiere of earlier this […]

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Date: Friday 24th November, 7pm Venue: St. Paul’s Hall (HD1 3DH) We’re hugely excited to return to hcmf// for the 40th Anniversary Festival with a programme exploring gender and identity in 2017.  Laurence Osborn’s Ctrl – (commissioned with funding from the Arts Council and PRSF) written on the theme of the crisis of masculinity and the persistence of outdated […]

A look back at HCMF 2015

We had a wonderful time performing on the opening night of the 2015 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. Ian Faragher and Nigel Bryant – of Sonic Imperfections – discussed their experiences of the weekend (including our concert) on Resonance Extra: Huddersfield’s Artistic Director Graham McKenzie had this to say: You can watch our performance of Jagoda Szmytka’s sky-me, type-me below, […]

HCMF: Szmytka, Fernando & Hyla

Date: Friday 20th November Venue: Blending Shed at Bates Mill, Huddersfield We are absolutely thrilled to make our HCMF debut with the wild and bizarre worlds of Jagoda Szmytka, Samantha Fernando & Lee Hyla.  The concert includes UK premieres of Szmytka’s Game Boy and Empty Music, along with Hyla’s 30-minute retrospective My Life on the Plains. Samantha has created a new […]