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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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with funding from the Arts Council and PRSF) written on the theme of the crisis of masculinity and the persistence of outdated […]
Highlights from the UK Premiere performance of Game Boy by Jagoda Szmytka at HCMF2015. Performed by Goska Isphording. GameBoy (Highlights) from The Riot Ensemble on Vimeo.
UK Premiere performance of sky-me, type-me by Jagoda Szmytka at HCMF2015. Performers are: Sarah Dacey, Martha Lloyd, Anna Hashimoto & Tansy Bennett. Conducted by Aaron Holloway-Nahum.
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, […]
Have a look at our six concerts taking place this Autumn, including the Spitalfields Music Winter Festival, opening night of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, ongoing work with BreatheAHR, a return to Brighton with NMB and more!
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 […]