Cracking session of augmented piano-bothering with Stefan Schultze at @hcmfuk.bsky.social

To everyone who joined us, supported us, collaborated with us, or simply listened, and to the wonderful artists who featured at this year’s edition: thank you. Your curiosity, commitment and openness are what keep hcmf// moving forward.

Day Ten closes hcmf// 2025 with a full Cultures of Climate programme — all free. 12–4pm: Soundwalk Betweenness 12–6pm: Tipping Point + Reclaimed Land 12pm: Tell It To The Trees 2pm: When I Grow Up to Be the Apocalypse 4pm: Paradoxical Symmetries 6pm: Sonic Ecologies Link in bio.

Day Nine: 10–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation 10.30am Sound Canvas (Heritage Quay) 1pm XN: Stefan Schultze 3pm McKenzie in conversation w/ Tim Isfort 5pm + 9pm XN concerts at Town Hall. Tickets and events schedule tr.ee/1PWaoZlCId:

Day Eight of hcmf// 2025: 10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation 1pm Saxtronauts (St Paul’s Hall) 6pm Marlaut (Bates Mill Studio) 8pm Ensemble Contrechamps w/ Halal & Kokcharova. Tickets in bio.

Fun times at my first-ever @hcmfuk.bsky.social 2025. My piece for @vanmusicmag.bsky.social is out now, with pretty mind-boggling insights from Graham McKenzie and a few unvarnished concert takes. This one's for lovers of numbers and sceptics of the UK’s arts funding. van-magazine.com/mag/huddersf...

Day Seven of hcmf// 2025: 10am–4pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation (Richard Steinitz Building) 1–3pm Resonances of Nusantara workshop 7.15pm Córas Trio / Brìghde Chaimbeul at Town Hall. Link in bio.

Day Six of hcmf// 2025: 11am–4pm The Listening Room at AMPED Coffee (talk at 3pm) 3.30pm 62 Group + Gavin Osborn installation launch 7.15pm RÓIS / Milkweed at Town Hall. Link in bio.

Join us tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) at AMPED Coffee for After the End of the World: The Listening Room — a day of music, sound + reflection inspired by Natalie Hyacinth’s work. Frances & Natalie in convo at 3pm. Link in bio.

Join us tomorrow (Wed 26 Nov) at AMPED Coffee for After the End of the World: The Listening Room — a day of music, sound + reflection inspired by Natalie Hyacinth’s work. Frances & Natalie in convo at 3pm. Link in bio.

Day Five of hcmf// 2025: 12pm Saviet/Houston Duo perform new work by @sarahhennies.bsky.social (St Paul’s Hall). 7.15pm Sholto Dobie, Jessie Marino and Fred Frith at Huddersfield Town Hall. Today's tickets & schedule: tr.ee/EmpMLA5lZM

Mingo Rajandi's Lady Sapiens was the standout performance of the weekend, until that was EMA stole the show! Great weekend of music.

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

some apparatus of the Estonian Electronic Music Society Ensemble, following their performance at @hcmfuk.bsky.social

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....

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

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

Fred Frith & Heiner for one night only… what serendipity…

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/

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/

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.

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/

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

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

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/

UK premiere at @hcmfuk.bsky.social on Tuesday 11/25! hcmf.co.uk/programme/sa...

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/

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/

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

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

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/

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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.

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.

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/

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

Attempts to attune: Genevieve Murphy Composer Genevieve Murphy explores empathy, connection & individuality through sound. At #hcmf2025, ONCEIM perform the UK premiere of Together We Feel and Alone We Experience, alongside Christian Marclay’s Constellation. Words: Tim Rutherford|Link in bio

FINAL CALL! A handful of extra Opening Weekend Saver tickets for this year's festival have just been released — and this really is it. When they’re gone, they’re gone. Don’t miss your chance to be part of an incredible opening weekend! Link in bio.

Artist Spotlight: Fred Frith Composer, improviser & pioneer Fred Frith brings his boundary-breaking guitar work to hcmf// 2025 in a thrilling triple bill with Sholto Dobie & Jessie Marino. 🗓️ Tue 25 Nov, 7:15pm 📍 Huddersfield Town Hall Tickets: link.dice.fm/Oa3944598256...

Spotlight: Brìghde Chaimbeul Thu 27 Nov 7:15pm | Huddersfield Town Hall A master of the Scottish smallpipes, Brìghde blends Gaelic tradition with ambient, avant-garde & electronic sounds. In a double bill with Córas Trio, she bridges heritage & innovation. Tickets: link.dice.fm/v8bf83170ec5...

Ourselves in shattered glass: Marta Śniady The Polish composer turns the fractured self-image of modern life into glittering collisions of sound, theatre + irony. At hcmf2025, London Sinfonietta give the UK premiere of 'How Can I Help You?' (2025) — a sharp look at selfhood + control. Link in bio