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The UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music.
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)
Day Four means our infamous hcmf// shorts programme from 12pm–12pm across St Paul’s Hall, Phipps Hall, Bates Mill + Town Hall. Installations, performances + late-night sets.

Full schedule: tr.ee/vy2551En5z
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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some apparatus of the Estonian Electronic
Music Society Ensemble, following their performance at @hcmfuk.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Catch up with last night’s
@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....
BBC Radio 3 - New Music Show, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival: Explore Ensemble and ONCEIM
Explore Ensemble perform a brand new work from Bryn Harrison.
bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Day Three of hcmf// 2025:

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
November 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Day Two of hcmf// 2025 brings film, choral + cutting-edge performance:

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
November 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Fred Frith & Heiner for one night only… what serendipity…
Line-up update for hcmf// shorts:

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/
November 21, 2025 at 3:29 PM
hcmf// 2025 kicks off today!

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/
November 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Line-up update for hcmf// shorts:

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/
November 21, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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
hcmf.co.uk
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