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/
Image © Henry Seeley (www.henryseeley.design)
Full schedule: tr.ee/vy2551En5z
Full schedule: tr.ee/vy2551En5z
Music Society Ensemble, following their performance at @hcmfuk.bsky.social
Music Society Ensemble, following their performance at @hcmfuk.bsky.social
@BBCRadio3
New Music Show live from #hcmf2025: Kate Molleson hosts Explore Ensemble premiering Bryn Harrison + ONCEIM performing Christian Marclay.
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m....
@BBCRadio3
New Music Show live from #hcmf2025: Kate Molleson hosts Explore Ensemble premiering Bryn Harrison + ONCEIM performing Christian Marclay.
Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m....
12pm Mivos Quartet: @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall)
3pm 'Lady Sapiens' (Bates Mill)
7pm London Sinfonietta (Town Hall)
10pm EMA is sold out.
Tickets for today’s schedule: tr.ee/w0h17Bls98
12pm Mivos Quartet: @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall)
3pm 'Lady Sapiens' (Bates Mill)
7pm London Sinfonietta (Town Hall)
10pm EMA is sold out.
Tickets for today’s schedule: tr.ee/w0h17Bls98
11am Every Sound a Jewel
1pm Pärt @ 90
4pm Mivos Quartet
7.30pm ONCEIM (SO)
9.45pm Across the North Sea (SO)
Buy Tickets Here: tr.ee/aqxMh7d3-j
11am Every Sound a Jewel
1pm Pärt @ 90
4pm Mivos Quartet
7.30pm ONCEIM (SO)
9.45pm Across the North Sea (SO)
Buy Tickets Here: tr.ee/aqxMh7d3-j
Arnas Mikalkėnas can no longer perform. Stepping in is guitar legend Fred Frith, joining Heiner Goebbels for a unique duo encounter. Mon 24 Nov, 6:10pm.
hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-shorts-4/
Explore Ensemble opens at 7pm (Huddersfield Town Hall), followed by Dedalus Ensemble performing @sarahhennies.bsky.social’ Motor Tapes at 9.30pm (Bates Mill Blending Shed).
Remaining tickets here: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
Explore Ensemble opens at 7pm (Huddersfield Town Hall), followed by Dedalus Ensemble performing @sarahhennies.bsky.social’ Motor Tapes at 9.30pm (Bates Mill Blending Shed).
Remaining tickets here: hcmf.co.uk/2025-programme/
Arnas Mikalkėnas can no longer perform. Stepping in is guitar legend Fred Frith, joining Heiner Goebbels for a unique duo encounter. Mon 24 Nov, 6:10pm.
hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-shorts-4/
Arnas Mikalkėnas can no longer perform. Stepping in is guitar legend Fred Frith, joining Heiner Goebbels for a unique duo encounter. Mon 24 Nov, 6:10pm.
hcmf.co.uk/programme/hcmf-shorts-4/
Find out more at link in bio.
Find out more at link in bio.
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.
Link in bio
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