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hcmf// 2025: 21 - 30 November

hcmf// 2025 on sale now: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
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📅 21–30 Nov
✨ 50+ premieres
👤 Composer in Residence: Sarah Hennies (@sarahhennies.bsky.social )

🎟 Tickets: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/

Image © Henry Seeley (www.henryseeley.design)
Frazer Merrick, Luis Fernando Amaya & Natalie Hyacinth spent 12 months exploring sustainable composition and creative sound practices. Their new works premiere at hcmf// 2025 later this month.

Find out more at link in bio.
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Artist Spotlight: The Carice Singers

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/
November 19, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Artist Spotlight: Marlaut

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
November 18, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Artist Spotlight: Sholto Dobie

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
November 18, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Event Spotlight: 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/
November 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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UK premiere at @hcmfuk.bsky.social on Tuesday 11/25! hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...
Saviet/Houston Duo: Sarah Hennies - Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
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November 17, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Artist Spotlight: Mingo Rajandi

'Lady Sapiens' premieres 23 Nov. Bold, genre-blurring music exploring femininity + human history.

Don’t miss it — tickets: hcmf.co.uk/programme/lady-sapiens/
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The countdown has begun, just 7 days to go!

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/
November 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Artist Spotlight: Ensemble Contrechamps

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
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Midweek programme at Huddersfield Town Hall

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
November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Hidden Gems 2025

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/
November 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Artist Spotlight: Rytis Mažulis

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/
November 7, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Artist Spotlight: Raminta Šerkšnytė

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
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Artist Spotlight: Luis Fernando Amaya

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
November 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Artist Spotlight: Wassim Halal

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
November 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Artist Spotlight: Córas Trio

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
October 31, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Artist Spotlight: XN Quintet

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
October 31, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Artist Spotlight: Raven Chacon

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.
October 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Artist Spotlight: Akiko Ahrendt, Annie Bloch & Emily Wittbrodt

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...
October 30, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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How can I wait for this... See you in Huddersfield at the @hcmfuk.bsky.social festival. The final part of my "Extinction Trilogy", "Oil Today Water Tomorrow" for saxophones and electronics will be heard on Friday the 28th Nov in St. Paul's Hall. 😊
Artist Spotlight: Saxtronauts

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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Artist Spotlight: Saxtronauts

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...
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Artist Spotlight: Evi Filippou & Robert Lucaciu

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.
October 28, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Artist Spotlight: Mivos Quartet

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.
October 27, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Artist Spotlight: 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/
October 27, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Spotlight: Milkweed

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
October 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM