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Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

Fri 20 to Sun 29 Nov 2015 (1 week)

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival

hcmf// - the UK's largest international festival of experimental and new music. The 38th hcmf// promises a programme filled with cutting-edge music from a host of leading international composers and performers, includ.....Read more

Arditti Quartet + Jennifer Walshe

Fri 18 Nov 2016

Arditti Quartet + Jennifer Walshe

hcmf// 2016’s opening concert pairs the Arditti Quartet – one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary string quartets – with adventurous Irish composer Jennifer Walshe for the first UK performance of her most recent w.....Read more

Ensemble Musikfabrik + Peter Brotzmann + Solos 1

Fri 18 Nov 2016

Ensemble Musikfabrik + Peter Brotzmann + Solos 1

Contemporary music powerhouse Ensemble Musikfabrik are dedicated to artistic innovation, with new and unknown works a staple of their productions. hcmf// is delighted to welcome them back to Huddersfield to see them join.....Read more

Dublin Guitar Quartet

Sat 19 Nov 2016

Dublin Guitar Quartet

Formed in 2001 after meeting at the Dublin Conservatory of Music and Drama, the Dublin Guitar Quartet forgo the classic guitar repertoire to perform important works by international composers. At hcmf//2016 they go elect.....Read more

Walking with Partch + Solos 2

Sat 19 Nov 2016

Walking with Partch + Solos 2

Ensemble Musikfabrik bring four of the iconic Partch instruments to Huddersfield to perform the world premiere of a new work by Claudia Molitor – Walking with Partch – which aims to unsettle the standard compositional pa.....Read more

Klangforum Wien + Arditti Quartet: Haas

Sat 19 Nov 2016

Klangforum Wien + Arditti Quartet: Haas

Two institutes of contemporary music come together in this performance to showcase two new works by hcmf//2016 Composer in Residence Georg Friedrich Haas. Guest soloist, Mollena Lee Williams-Haas – whose experience of al.....Read more

Trombone Unit Hannover: Haas

Sun 20 Nov 2016

Trombone Unit Hannover: Haas

hcmf// is delighted to welcome the Trombone Unit Hannover to Huddersfield with a programme featuring two works by Composer in Residence George Friedrich Haas, including the UK premiere of his Octet for Trombone. The Unit.....Read more

Body-opera

Sun 20 Nov 2016

Body-opera

hcmf// returns to The Hepworth Wakefield to a present a brand new work – produced in partnership with Warsaw’s Nowy Teatr – by Polish composer Wojtek Blecharz. Blecharz’s opera is a living organism, growing as a limb.....Read more

Klangforum Wien

Sun 20 Nov 2016

Klangforum Wien

Following their acclaimed performance in 2015, hcmf// is delighted to welcome Austria’s leading contemporary music ensemble back to Huddersfield. Since forming in 1985, the ensemble has premiered over 500 new pieces by c.....Read more

London Sinfonietta: FAMA

Sun 20 Nov 2016

London Sinfonietta: FAMA

When Beat Furrer’s FAMA was premiered in Germany in 2005 it was hailed as ‘a miracle’ by Die Zeit. Now, after a decade of performances across Europe, this masterpiece of sound theatre finally arrives in the UK. Based.....Read more

Philip Thomas with Students from the University of Huddersfield

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Philip Thomas with Students from the University of Huddersfield

Celebrating Michael Finnissy's 70th birthday year, this programme presents two recent works typically provocative in title and content, reflecting the composer's continued engagement with and response to contemporary lif.....Read more

Explore Ensemble

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Explore Ensemble

Explore Ensemble make their debut at hcmf// presenting Gérard Grisey’s iconic work Talea, ou la machine et les herbes folles. Grisey composed Talea in 1986 not long after completing his vast cycle, Les espaces acoustique.....Read more

Ailis Ni Rian: Sklonište

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Ailis Ni Rian: Sklonište

Sklonište is an alternative reflection on the longest siege in modern warfare in which 13,952 people were killed in a thriving, multi-cultural, artistic city in South-Eastern Europe. Sklonište is a visual and musical ess.....Read more

Robert Bentall + Mario Duarte

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Robert Bentall + Mario Duarte

This concert features two pieces developed across the course of the Sound and Music Embedded programme with CMMAS Mexico and The University of Huddersfield. Both pieces operate on a theme of portmanteau exploring the ble.....Read more

Revolution Ensemble

Mon 21 Nov 2016

Revolution Ensemble

Revolution Ensemble is a Montreal-based experimental performance group dedicated to pushing physical and musical boundaries through radical improvisation, innovative electronics and interdisciplinary collaboration. Core .....Read more

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