hcmf// 2025: 21 - 30 November
hcmf// 2025 on sale now: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
📅 21–30 Nov
✨ 50+ premieres
👤 Composer in Residence: Sarah Hennies (@sarahhennies.bsky.social )
🎟 Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
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Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.
Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.
🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7
Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
Don’t miss their hcmf// debut: Pärt @ 90 with organist Christopher Bowers-Broadbent + Baltic & Nordic gems, incl. 2 UK premieres.
Sat 22 Nov, St Paul’s Hall.
🎟️ £32/£41.60/£7
Buy yours here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/the-carice-singers-part-90/
Marlaut — a multisensory performance by Debbie Armour, Maria Sappho, Nadya Hatta & Arum Dayu — blends sound, film & textiles into a living folklore of sea, care & memory. UK Premiere at hcmf// 2025.
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Marlaut — a multisensory performance by Debbie Armour, Maria Sappho, Nadya Hatta & Arum Dayu — blends sound, film & textiles into a living folklore of sea, care & memory. UK Premiere at hcmf// 2025.
Link in bio
Dobie, Marino & Frith explore experimental soundscapes with concertinas, electronics & guitar. UK Premiere 'cascades’.
🗓️ Tue 25 Nov, 7:15 pm | 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall
Tickets: link.dice.fm/Oa3944598256?dice_id=Oa3944598256
Dobie, Marino & Frith explore experimental soundscapes with concertinas, electronics & guitar. UK Premiere 'cascades’.
🗓️ Tue 25 Nov, 7:15 pm | 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall
Tickets: link.dice.fm/Oa3944598256?dice_id=Oa3944598256
🗓️ 27 Nov, 1–3pm
📍 RS/G 01
Dive into Indonesia’s radical sound worlds at this free vocal workshop with Dinar Rizkianti & Gema Swaratyagita.
Secure your free place here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/workshop-resonances-of-nusantara/
🗓️ 27 Nov, 1–3pm
📍 RS/G 01
Dive into Indonesia’s radical sound worlds at this free vocal workshop with Dinar Rizkianti & Gema Swaratyagita.
Secure your free place here: hcmf.co.uk/programme/workshop-resonances-of-nusantara/
'Lady Sapiens' premieres 23 Nov. Bold, genre-blurring music exploring femininity + human history.
Don’t miss it — tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/lady-sapiens/
'Lady Sapiens' premieres 23 Nov. Bold, genre-blurring music exploring femininity + human history.
Don’t miss it — tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/lady-sapiens/
hcmf// 2025 opens with the phenomenal Explore Ensemble. Tickets are flying out—book now to be part of the opening night.
Remaining tickets 🎟️ - hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
hcmf// 2025 opens with the phenomenal Explore Ensemble. Tickets are flying out—book now to be part of the opening night.
Remaining tickets 🎟️ - hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
Geneva’s fearless Ensemble Contrechamps bring daring precision to hcmf// 2025 with UK premieres by Wassim Halal & Olga Kokcharova.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov | 📍Bates Mill Blending Shed
🎟️ Link in bio
Geneva’s fearless Ensemble Contrechamps bring daring precision to hcmf// 2025 with UK premieres by Wassim Halal & Olga Kokcharova.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov | 📍Bates Mill Blending Shed
🎟️ Link in bio
Three nights of boundary-pushing sound at #hcmf2025:
25 Nov – Sholto Dobie / Jessie Marino / Fred Frith
26 Nov – RÓIS / Milkweed
27 Nov – Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul
Tickets + info: link in bio
Three nights of boundary-pushing sound at #hcmf2025:
25 Nov – Sholto Dobie / Jessie Marino / Fred Frith
26 Nov – RÓIS / Milkweed
27 Nov – Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul
Tickets + info: link in bio
hcmf// Artistic Director Graham McKenzie digs deep to uncover the festival’s must-hear discoveries — from Mingo Rajandi to Sholto Dobie, Milkweed, Saxtronauts, Wassim Halal & Carolin Pook.
Read more: hcmf.co.uk/hcmf-2025-hidden-gems-2/
hcmf// Artistic Director Graham McKenzie digs deep to uncover the festival’s must-hear discoveries — from Mingo Rajandi to Sholto Dobie, Milkweed, Saxtronauts, Wassim Halal & Carolin Pook.
Read more: hcmf.co.uk/hcmf-2025-hidden-gems-2/
Explore Ensemble open hcmf// 2025 with Mažulis’s 'Canon Mensurabilis' — hypnotic canons + crystalline precision from Lithuania’s master of “minimalist maximalism.”
Fri 21 Nov, 7 pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/explore-ensemble/
Explore Ensemble open hcmf// 2025 with Mažulis’s 'Canon Mensurabilis' — hypnotic canons + crystalline precision from Lithuania’s master of “minimalist maximalism.”
Fri 21 Nov, 7 pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/explore-ensemble/
Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė brings her luminous 'Oriental Elegy (Rytų elegija)' to hcmf// 2025 with the Mivos Quartet — a meditative UK Premiere where stillness meets transcendence.
Sat 22 Nov, 4pm |Huddersfield Town Hall
£22 / £28.60 / £7 |Link in bio
Lithuanian composer Raminta Šerkšnytė brings her luminous 'Oriental Elegy (Rytų elegija)' to hcmf// 2025 with the Mivos Quartet — a meditative UK Premiere where stillness meets transcendence.
Sat 22 Nov, 4pm |Huddersfield Town Hall
£22 / £28.60 / £7 |Link in bio
London Sinfonietta perform the world premiere of 'Mi libro es la Tierra: Rosa Ixchel' by Mexican composer Luis Fernando Amaya — a vivid tapestry of myth, memory & sound.
🗓️ Sun 23 Nov, 7pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £32 / £41.60 / £7 | Link in bio
London Sinfonietta perform the world premiere of 'Mi libro es la Tierra: Rosa Ixchel' by Mexican composer Luis Fernando Amaya — a vivid tapestry of myth, memory & sound.
🗓️ Sun 23 Nov, 7pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £32 / £41.60 / £7 | Link in bio
French percussionist Wassim Halal reimagines the darbuka in 'Sang d’Angle' — a bold fusion of rhythm, electronics & philosophy with Ensemble Contrechamps.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov, 8pm | Bates Mill Blending Shed
🎟️ £32 / £41.60 / £7 | Link in bio
French percussionist Wassim Halal reimagines the darbuka in 'Sang d’Angle' — a bold fusion of rhythm, electronics & philosophy with Ensemble Contrechamps.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov, 8pm | Bates Mill Blending Shed
🎟️ £32 / £41.60 / £7 | Link in bio
Join Córas Trio + Brìghde Chaimbeul at hcmf// 2025 for a fearless double bill of Celtic traditional musical reimagined with improvisation & electronics.
🗓️ Thu 27 Nov, 7:15pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £25/£32.50/£10 | Link in bio
Join Córas Trio + Brìghde Chaimbeul at hcmf// 2025 for a fearless double bill of Celtic traditional musical reimagined with improvisation & electronics.
🗓️ Thu 27 Nov, 7:15pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £25/£32.50/£10 | Link in bio
Led by Carolin Pook, this quintet co-creates a bold new suite from a 3-day workshop, blending improvisation & experimental music into a unified ensemble performance.
🗓️ 29 Nov, 9pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £12/£15.60/£7 | Link in bio
Led by Carolin Pook, this quintet co-creates a bold new suite from a 3-day workshop, blending improvisation & experimental music into a unified ensemble performance.
🗓️ 29 Nov, 9pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £12/£15.60/£7 | Link in bio
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon’s The Journey of the Horizontal People forms part of a programme by Mivos Quartet — a powerful exploration of movement, endurance & sound.
Sat 22 Nov, 4pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
£22 / £28.60 / £7 | Link in bio.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon’s The Journey of the Horizontal People forms part of a programme by Mivos Quartet — a powerful exploration of movement, endurance & sound.
Sat 22 Nov, 4pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
£22 / £28.60 / £7 | Link in bio.
Three German experimentalists unite for their first trio performance — a boundary-blurring dialogue in sound.
🗓️ Sat 29 Nov, 5pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £20/£26/£7
hcmf.co.uk/programme/xn...
Three German experimentalists unite for their first trio performance — a boundary-blurring dialogue in sound.
🗓️ Sat 29 Nov, 5pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
🎟️ £20/£26/£7
hcmf.co.uk/programme/xn...
Finnish quartet Saxtronauts explore the saxophone’s full spectrum, from whispering lyricism to volcanic force, in a programme of UK premieres and Nordic/Baltic soundscapes.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov, 1pm | St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7
Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...
Finnish quartet Saxtronauts explore the saxophone’s full spectrum, from whispering lyricism to volcanic force, in a programme of UK premieres and Nordic/Baltic soundscapes.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov, 1pm | St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7
Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...
Finnish quartet Saxtronauts explore the saxophone’s full spectrum, from whispering lyricism to volcanic force, in a programme of UK premieres and Nordic/Baltic soundscapes.
🗓️ Fri 28 Nov, 1pm | St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ £18 / £23.40 / £7
Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...
Greek vibraphonist Evi Filippou & German-Romanian bassist Robert Lucaciu bring their fearless duo to hcmf// 2025 XN, rooted in jazz, contemporary classical and Balkan folk music.
Sat 29 Nov, 5pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
£20 / £26 / £7
Link in bio.
Greek vibraphonist Evi Filippou & German-Romanian bassist Robert Lucaciu bring their fearless duo to hcmf// 2025 XN, rooted in jazz, contemporary classical and Balkan folk music.
Sat 29 Nov, 5pm | Huddersfield Town Hall
£20 / £26 / £7
Link in bio.
At hcmf// 2025: Sat 22 Nov – World Premiere of Ville Raasakka’s The Trees Are Talking + works by Gildemann, Šerkšnytė & Chacon. Sun 23 Nov – UK Premiere of Sarah Hennies’ Borrowed Light, a 60-min meditation on sound.
22–23 Nov
£22 / £28.60 / £7
Link in bio.
At hcmf// 2025: Sat 22 Nov – World Premiere of Ville Raasakka’s The Trees Are Talking + works by Gildemann, Šerkšnytė & Chacon. Sun 23 Nov – UK Premiere of Sarah Hennies’ Borrowed Light, a 60-min meditation on sound.
22–23 Nov
£22 / £28.60 / £7
Link in bio.
Part of XN at hcmf// 2025, 'Hyperplexia' reimagines the piano for the 21st century — fusing acoustic mastery with live tech in a bold UK Premiere.
🗓️ Sat 29 Nov, 1pm | St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/xn-stefan-schultze/
Part of XN at hcmf// 2025, 'Hyperplexia' reimagines the piano for the 21st century — fusing acoustic mastery with live tech in a bold UK Premiere.
🗓️ Sat 29 Nov, 1pm | St Paul’s Hall
🎟️ Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/xn-stefan-schultze/
A duo reshaping folk through myth, memory & tape decay. Their haunting sound blurs the ancient & experimental — songs unearthed from the past & reimagined for now.
🗓️ Wed 26 Nov | 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall | 🎟️ link.dice.fm/A0041a013dcf?dice_id=A0041a013dcf
A duo reshaping folk through myth, memory & tape decay. Their haunting sound blurs the ancient & experimental — songs unearthed from the past & reimagined for now.
🗓️ Wed 26 Nov | 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall | 🎟️ link.dice.fm/A0041a013dcf?dice_id=A0041a013dcf