hcmf// 2009 programme

The University of Huddersfield

20–29 November 2009 Festival Box Office +44 [0]1484 430528 www.hcmf.co.uk

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The Festival also gratefully acknowledges support from Festival Members Dr Mick Peake

Welcome to the 32nd Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival!

I am delighted that this year’s composer in residence is Jonathan Harvey. In what is a difficult year for the arts and artists, due to the well documented global recession, there can be no better reminder of the importance and power of great art than the music of Jonathan Harvey. Respected and admired worldwide, Jonathan’s music has a deep spirituality and an overwhelming sense of humanity.

This year’s hcmf is very much focussed on the composer. We present a rare opportunity to experience the work of Portugal’s greatest living composer Emmanuel Nunes. Richard Barrett and James Dillon premiere major new works. We honour Louis Andriessen and, perhaps more controversially, pay homage to composer Anthony Braxton.

Partnerships are fundamental to hcmf and I would like to thank our Headline Sponsors - The University of Huddersfield, plus our partners the British Council, and BBC Radio 3 for broadcasting highlights from the Festival to a worldwide audience. Our international programme is made possible through Muziek Centrum Nederlands & NFPK+, the Goethe Institute and the German Federal Foreign Office and Réseau Varèse. My thanks of course go to all our partners, and full details can be found throughout the brochure.

For the first time we have some superb discounts for online ticket purchases (available until 23 October) – simply visit www.hcmf.co.uk With over 90 World, European, and UK Premieres to look forward to, let us discover great music together this November.

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Talks and Films hcmf hosts a series of free talks and discussions throughout the Festival with some of the world’s most distinguished composers.

Saturday 21 November Jonathan Harvey Lawrence Batley Theatre 10am – 12 noon Film screening and talk hcmf presents the screening of Barrie Gavin’s new portrait film of Jonathan Harvey TOWARDS AND BEYOND (48’). Gavin seeks to explore Harvey’s musical and philosophical world by means of a journey outward from his own thoughts and from his actual workroom. The portrait works through a series of metaphors and analogies – some derived from the landscape of southern England, others from far in time, space and history, including Christian and Buddhist imagery, electronic manipulation and views from the Hubble telescope in space.

The film will be preceded by a talk with Jonathan Harvey and followed by a discussion led by broadcaster and writer Brian Morton between Jonathan Harvey, filmmaker Barrie Gavin and Michael Downes, author of Jonathan Harvey: Song Offerings and White as Jasmine, to be published by Ashgate in December 2009.

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Sunday 22 November James Dillon Lawrence Batley Theatre, 11am Pre-concert talk Composer James Dillon talks to Brian Morton about his new commission The Leuven Triptych, inspired by Flemish painter Rogier Van der Weyden and the music of his contemporaries.

Sunday 22 November Anthony Braxton Lawrence Batley Theatre, 8.30pm Pre-concert talk Brian Morton and guests discuss the work of American composer, saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and philosopher Anthony Braxton.

Monday 23 November HCMF & CeReNeM Creative Arts Building, Room CAM G/03, 12 noon hcmf Artistic Director Graham McKenzie and composers Liza Lim and Lefteris Papadimitriou, discuss hcmf’s partnership with The Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University of Huddersfield.

Wednesday 25 November Louis Andriessen Creative Arts Building, Phipps Hall, 12 noon Louis Andriessen in conversation with Robert Worby from 12 noon followed, at 1pm in the Atrium of the Creative Arts Building, by the launch of a new piano book in honour of the composer’s 70th birthday. Image de Moreau is published by Boosey & Hawkes and Muziek Centrum Nederland.

Thursday 26 November Emmanuel Nunes St Paul’s Hall, 5pm Pre-concert talk Portuguese composer Emmanuel Nunes discusses his featured works at hcmf this year with Brian Morton, ranging from his new work Improvisation IV - l’électricité de la pensée humaine to Litanies du feu et de la mer 1 & II, written some 40 years ago.

Thursday 26 November Seung-Ah Oh Bates Mill, 9.15pm Post-concert talk Mirjam Zegers in conversation with composer Seung-Ah Oh about her ancient Koreaninfluenced art installation, Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi.

Friday 27 November Liza Lim Creative Arts Building, Room CAM G/01, 12 noon Pre-concert talk Professor Liza Lim discusses her first major work for solo piano, The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly) with BBC Radio 3 presenter Sara Mohr-Pietsch.

Friday 27 November Musica Elettronica Viva Creative Arts Building, Phipps Hall, 9.30pm Post-concert talk Brian Morton leads an after-show discussion celebrating 40 years of legendary electronic ensemble Musica Elettronica Viva with Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum.

Saturday 28 November Richard Barrett Creative Arts Building, Room CAM G/01, 11am In his 50th year, composer Richard Barrett discusses the dual aspects of his work – composition and improvisation – with hcmf Artistic Director Graham McKenzie.

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Learning & Participation hcmf uses new music to engage, inspire and innovate, reaching participants of all ages and abilities through creative workshops, performances and projects.

Our flagship project this year is vocalise, which has seen two new vocal ensembles for young people established in North Kirklees. The groups meet regularly to create new vocal works and explore unusual and ‘extended’ techniques with musicians James Squire, Sarah Turnbull and Liz Nicholas.

You can catch them performing a fantastic new commission by Alvin Curran on Sunday 29 November (p.61) along with the renowned Huddersfield Choral Society.

Other projects this year include The Music of Electricity, inspired by Tim Head’s exhibition at Huddersfield Art Gallery (p.44), plus the chance to hear emerging local talent at Laptop Revolutionaries (p.8).

This autumn we present a series of continuing professional development vocal workshops vocalise for music leaders linked to (see p.9), as well as presenting the world premieres of works written by the first composers from the pioneering hcmf & Nieuw Ensemble Composers’ Professional Development Programme (p.35) 06

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Opportunities to get involved at this year’s Festival: perform at hcmf!

Piano Phasing

hcmf is looking for up to 50 enthusiastic pianists aged 12 years and above to take part in an exciting large-scale performance of Kristoffer Zegers’ Piano Phasing.

Piano Phasing is inspired by Zegers’ childhood fascination with the rhythmic phases of church-bells ringing not quite in time. The performance at HCMF will feature 25 pianos in the grandiose setting of Huddersfield Town Hall on Monday 23 November (see p.34).

Please see www.hcmf.co.uk for more information about how you can perform at this event. To register your interest, please contact Heidi Johnson on 01484 471116; or email h.johnson@hud.ac.uk by Friday 6 November.

Supported by Besbrode Pianos

Laptop Revolutionaries Wednesday 18 November Laptop Revolutionaries Café Ollo The Media Centre 8pm

Catch Kirklees’ brightest young talent performing at this pre-Festival event; selected musicians working at the cutting edge of music technology will be performing original works using a diverse mix of hardware, software and live electronics.

Tickets £2 on the door Produced by supported by The Media Centre www.hcmf.co.uk

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vocalise: CPD Programme for Music Leaders

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hcmf has joined forces with Sing Up to present a series of inspirational workshops for music leaders, introducing different approaches to using the voice in creative music projects. Each session is delivered by a leading practitioner and is open to secondary, middle and primary school music teachers/co-ordinators, as well as community musicians and music students working with children and young people. There’s no need be a vocal specialist to take part! All workshop participants will also receive a copy of the vocalise Resource Pack written by Kate Pearson, which contains a wealth of imaginative ideas for running creative vocal projects.

Wednesday 30 September Kate Pearson: Paper Pieces A participatory session focusing on using paper sculpting techniques to model textures and structures for vocal work. This session is also running at the West Park Centre, Leeds (8 October); Heath Training Centre, Halifax (20 October); Bradford (3 November); and Manygates Centre, Wakefield (17 November).

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vocalise: CPD Programme for Music Leaders

Wednesday 14 October Barry Russell: Aural Landscapes Creating and running workshop sessions where imaginations are free to wander and voices are free to experiment!

Thursday 12 November Anna Myatt: Songs and Games Learn songs and games for helping with in-tune singing, part-singing and composing.

Particularly relevant for those working with primary school children.

Thursday 26 November Phil Minton: Phil Minton’s Feral Choir Learn about Phil Minton’s Feral Choir project whereby non-professionals are encouraged to take a vocal leap and explore vocal possibilities through exercises and improvisations.

All sessions are held at the University of Huddersfield from 4.30pm – 6.30pm. To book a place at any of the workshops please download a booking form from www.hcmf.co.uk; email: h.johnson@hud.ac.uk or call 01484 471116.

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CeReNeM &

composer masterclasses University of Huddersfield 9am – 10.45am

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In this new series, PhD students from the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) at the University of Huddersfield present their work in discussion with featured composers from this year’s festival.

Tuesday 24 November: Composer t.b.a.

CAMG/01 Friday 27 November: Jonathan Harvey Castle Hill Suite Saturday 28 November: Rebecca Saunders Castle Hill Suite http://mhm.hud.ac.uk/cerenem/ Free Event

And finally, there are our usual great ticket offers and curriculum support for school and community groups. New for schools this year vocalise resource pack, written is the

by Kate Pearson, which offers a wealth of imaginative ideas for running creative vocal projects with children and young people.

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Profile

Jonathan Harvey: Composer in Residence Jonathan Harvey knows when he heard his future calling. He was eleven, and a chorister.

“I remember exactly the moment,” he says. “I was coming out of the church and the organist hit a wild dissonance. With that chord, I said to myself, ‘I’m going to be a composer’, and I wrote it down mentally. I remembered it for two years, five years, ten years, and now sixty years.”

Jonathan Harvey is Composer in Residence at hcmf 2009 and with an honorary doctorate from the University of Huddersfield among his many accolades, the career of one of the world’s leading contemporary composers spans orchestral, choral, chamber, opera and tape works, in settings ranging from concert hall and campus to sacred spaces and the ultra-modernist bunker of IRCAM in Paris.

Harvey’s music sees ancient spiritual texts newly illuminated through electro-acoustic experimentation, and inanimate instruments digitally wedded to living voices.

Jonathan Harvey’s work will be performed as part of hcmf 2009 by Ralph van Raat, the Arditti Quartet, New London Chamber Choir, Remix Ensemble, musikFabrik and London Sinfonietta.

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Exhibitions & Installations Friday 20 November

Tim Head: Raw Material

Launch Event Friday 20 November Huddersfield Art Gallery 2.30pm Runs until Saturday 9 January 2010 Open daily throughout the Festival; otherwise closed Sundays and Bank Holidays Monday – Friday 10am – 5pm Saturday and Sunday 10am – 4pm

This exhibition brings together recent work by Tim Head exploring the contrary nature of the digital medium, its elusive material substance and its unsettled relationship with both ourselves and with the physical world.

The exhibition includes recent digital work, alongside a selection of drawings and an outdoor projection on the Library and Art Gallery building.

The exhibition is curated by Sotiris Kyriacou with the support of Sarah Brown and Robert Hall, Huddersfield Art Gallery, in collaboration with Kettles Yard, Cambridge and funded by Arts Council, England and the Henry Moore Foundation.

Free Event

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Exhibitions & Installations Friday 20 November

Jonathan Harvey: Mortuos Plango Installation by Visual Kitchen Launch Event Friday 20 November St Thomas’ Church 4pm Open daily throughout the Festival 2pm – 6pm

Nearly 30 years after its realisation, Jonathan Harvey’s electronic tape piece Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco remains one of the most fascinating adventures in electro-acoustics and one of the composer’s best pieces.

Devised by curator Lieven Bertels and the video collective Visual Kitchen (Brussels), the video installation complements Harvey’s piece and invites listeners to engage with the ‘surround sound’ nature of the music more actively. The audience is invited to become part of an enchanting sequence of abstract video tableaux projected on a square surface on the floor. commissioned by Produced by Gaida Festival; supported by Réseau Varèse; also supported by British Council Free Event

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Arditti Quartet & 01. The Hilliard Ensemble St Paul’s Hall 6pm Wolfgang Rihm -ET LUXUK PREMIERE

Arditti Quartet Irvine Arditti violin Ashot Sarkissjan violin Ralf Ehlers viola Lucas Fels cello

The Hilliard Ensemble and the Arditti Quartet, two of the most distinguished ensembles in their respective fields, join together to perform the UK premiere of -ET LUX-, by one of the world’s greatest composers, Wolfgang Rihm.

The Ensemble’s continuing collaboration with the Quartet has made it possible to add a number of new commissions to their core repertoire around which they can build a variety of new programmes.

-ET LUX- is commissioned Presented by

by KölnMusik, Festival d’Automne à Paris and Carnegie Hall; supported by British Council and Goethe Institut, London Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

The Hilliard Ensemble David James countertenor Rogers Covey-Crump tenor Steven Harrold tenor Gordon Jones baritone

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Barrett / ELISION I Bates Mill 8pm

Opening of the Mouth, commissioned by David Blenkinsop for the 1997 Perth Festival, fittingly receives its UK premiere at hcmf.

Richard Barrett Opening of the Mouth

Composed for an ensemble of two singers, nine musicians and live electronics, it is a major cycle and a landmark piece in the ongoing artistic relationship between composer Richard Barrett and the ELISION ensemble.

UK PREMIERE

ELISION

The work takes its point of departure from an ancient Egyptian ritual performed during the process of mummification. The ritual restored the power of speech to the dead soul, enabling them to bear witness to their life before the judges of the Underworld.

The texts are taken from the poet Paul Celan, whose own ‘mouth was opened’ by the Holocaust: to those whose mouths were empty before being closed. Celan’s language itself is a tongue from beyond the fascist destruction of the German language in Celan’s words the ‘thousand darknesses of death-bringing speech.’

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Braxton Solo Piano 1

Phipps Hall 11pm

Geneviève Foccroulle performs three contrasting works for solo piano by Anthony Braxton. Composition No 1 is inspired by the post-Schoenberg European avant-garde.

Composition No 10 is a graphically scored piece consisting of 68 pictures that allow the performer to make improvised decisions, not only about which pictures they will play, but also about key, rhythm, harmony and duration.

Composition No 32 creates chords that are sustained throughout the piece.

Anthony Braxton Composition No 1 UK PREMIERE

Anthony Braxton Composition No 10 UK PREMIERE

Anthony Braxton Composition No 32 UK PREMIERE

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Geneviève Foccroulle piano

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Saturday 21 November

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Sarah Nicolls

Phipps Hall 1pm

Sarah Nicolls aims to embed instinctive performance into technology.

Michel van der Aa Transit WORLD PREMIERE

Atau Tanaka new work for pianist and sensors

Her most recent collaboration with Atau Tanaka sees the hands and arms in a fluid relationship with the piano, teasing out sound from the space around – as well as inside – the instrument.

Pierre Alexandre Tremblay Un clou, son marteau, et le béton

Tremblay brings the sonic focus right to the instrument by using a tight-knit array of speakers, creating drama in both improvised and vocal passages, whilst Michel van der Aa’s Transit sets the pianist as a live component in a poignant film about loneliness.

Sarah Nicolls piano

supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum Nederland and NFPK+; also supported by British Council

WORLD PREMIERE

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Ensemble Exposé

Bates Mill 3pm

Writing at the cutting edge of the performable, the composers Roger Redgate, Paul Archbold and David Gorton have created works that explore instrumental techniques, challenge traditional chamber music boundaries and re-think relationships between soloist and ensemble, improvisation and notation, and the relationships between electronics and acoustic instruments.

Roger Redgate Concerto for Improvising Soloist and 2 Ensembles (hcmf commission) WORLD PREMIERE

David Gorton Schmetterlingsspiel WORLD PREMIERE

Paul Archbold new work WORLD PREMIERE

Ensemble Exposé Roger Redgate artistic director

Redgate’s work is for improvising soloist and two ensembles (one instrumental and the other consisting of laptops, turntables and VJ). Gorton’s Schmetterlingsspiel describes a chaotic relationship between the solo oboe and the ensemble. Archbold’s work for oboe, ensemble and electronics (laptop and keyboard) will explore the oboe’s multi-phonic potential which is, in turn, developed by the ensemble. and sound and music; Co-produced by Concerto for Improvising Soloist and 2 Ensembles is commissioned by with funds from the Britten-Pears Foundation supported by British Council; part of Sound and Music’s Cutting Edge Tour Tickets £14 (£12 concession; £9 online)

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Ralph van Raat: Harvey / Boulez

Phipps Hall 6pm

Sharing Schoenberg and Messiaen as two of their most important early influences, Harvey and Boulez both derive their musical language from serial and spectralist influences, both having been influenced by music and thought from the Orient. However, where Boulez is foremost concerned with breaking away from the role of the past and inducing a musical revolution, Harvey has always, in non-tonal colours, sought spiritual impulse and expression of the visionary. In this spectacular concert, which is an overview of Harvey’s complete piano music, combined with Boulez’s historical and monumental Second Sonata for piano, one conclusion certainly is evident: both composers demand the utmost virtuosity from their interpreters.

Jonathan Harvey Four Images after Yeats Jonathan Harvey Haiku Jonathan Harvey Homage to Cage… À Chopin (und Ligeti ist auch dabei) Jonathan Harvey Tombeau de Messiaen Jonathan Harvey FF Jonathan Harvey Vers Pierre Boulez Second Sonata

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Arditti Quartet:

Jonathan Harvey 07. 4th String Quartet St Paul’s Hall 8.15pm Hilda Paredes In Memoriam Thomas Kakushka James Dillon String Quartet No 5 WORLD PREMIERE

James Clarke String Quartet No 2 (hcmf commission) WORLD PREMIERE

Jonathan Harvey String Quartet No 4

The world renowned Arditti Quartet present a captivating programme including world premieres of James Clarke’s String Quartet No 2, written for and dedicated to the Arditti Quartet, James Dillon’s String Quartet No 5, written for and premiered here at the quartet’s 35th anniversary, and Hilda Paredes’ tribute to the late Thomas Kakushka of the Alban Berg Quartet. A performance of hcmf Composer in Residence Jonathan Harvey’s spiritual String Quartet No 4 completes this exceptional programme.

String Quartet No 2 Produced by is co-commissioned by and MaerzMuzik|Berliner Festspiele; supported by British Council Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

Irvine Arditti violin Ashot Sarkissjan violin Ralf Ehlers viola Lucas Fels cello

Gilbert Nouno IRCAM computer music designer

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IRCAM technical team Jérémie Henrot sound engineer Arshia Cont computer production

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Braxton Solo Piano 2

Phipps Hall 11pm

“The composition Trip is a composite interpretation of all of the notated piano music compositions. This is a ‘Trip’ into the notated domain of the music system...”

Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton The Trip UK PREMIERE

Geneviève Foccroulle piano

“The process of creativity is so interesting for the pianist – having to choose extracts from pieces, make decisions about form, the order of the different parts, and realise a new interpretation – changing for each concert. As a pianist-performer-improviser, playing precise notated scores with creative perspective at the same time is maybe the most exciting thing in Anthony’s piano music!”

Geneviève Foccroulle Produced by Tickets £10 (£8 concession; £6 online)

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Sunday 22 November

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Ictus Ensemble

Lawrence Batley Theatre 12 noon

Two pioneering composers with a strong reputation in new music, James Dillon and Brice Pauset, will encounter the Flemish Primitive painter Roger Van der Weyden. For James Dillon, the job of resolutely working out the aesthetic principles characteristic of Van der Weyden in a modern musical language resulted in a monumental 46-minute work.

He sought inspiration in the music of the Master’s contemporaries (Guillaume Dufay, among others). The job couldn’t have found a better fit than with Brice Pauset, who has been fascinated for a long time with the Last Judgement (Hospice de Dieu, Beaune) and canon techniques in 15th-century music.

The Ictus Ensemble is totally enthusiastic about these world premieres, which they will perform with passion.

Brice Pauset Theorie der Tränen: Atem UK PREMIERE

James Dillon The Leuven Triptych UK PREMIERE

Ictus Ensemble

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le grain de la voix

Phipps Hall 2pm

At the core of le grain de la voix there are immediate physical expressions. It is not the distinctiveness of the message that is the aim, but the conjunction of body and language in a “stereophony of sensuousness” (Roland Barthes).

Sam Hayden Actio UK PREMIERE

blablabor hirsch hirn hornisse UK PREMIERE

canto battuto Christoph Brunner percussion Eva Nievergelt voice

In Sam Hayden’s Actio this is achieved not only by repeatedly scanning the underlying text but also by intensifying the vocal and instrumental sounds that are being recorded from close-by. The term ‘sounding material’ is hence taken literally.

Questions and statements in four languages serve as a starting point in the performancelike work of the explorative radio duo blablabor.

The singer and percussionist distil melodies and rhythms from spoken language.

Semantics is temporarily interrupted in order to achieve a topography of language with canyons, plains, mountains and valleys. commissioned by Produced by canto battuto; supported by British Council Tickets £14 (£12 concession; £9 online)

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New London

Chamber Choir: 11. Jonathan Harvey St Paul’s Hall 5pm Kaija Saariaho Nuits, adieux Kaija Saariaho Sept Papillons Jonathan Harvey The Summer Cloud’s Awakening New London Chamber Choir James Weeks director

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New London Chamber Choir celebrates the 70th birthday of its long-time collaborator Jonathan Harvey with a rare UK performance of his masterpiece The Summer Cloud’s Awakening, for flute, cello, choir and electronics, setting Buddhist texts and a line from Richard Wagner.

Saariaho’s mystical Roubaud setting Nuits, adieux (a cappella version) and Sept Papillons for solo cello complete the programme.

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Sunday 22 November

12. Rumpelstiltskin Bates Mill 7pm David Sawer Rumpelstiltskin: a grotesque fable for our times Birmingham Contemporary Music Group Martyn Brabbins conductor

The thrilling Brothers Grimm tale of greed and come-uppance, with its age-old themes of transformation, ritual and revelation, told as you’ve never heard it before, through dance, action and music alone.

This world premiere tour of Rumpelstiltskin is created by the internationally renowned David Sawer (composer), Richard Jones (director) and Stewart Laing (designer) and performed by six dancers and Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Martyn Brabbins. in association with Presented by BCMG and Tramway Glasgow; commissioned through BCMG’s Sound Investment Scheme; supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council England, Britten-Pears Foundation, John Feeney Charitable Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, PRS Foundation – Scottish Arts Council – Esmée Fairbairn Foundation Joint Commissioning Scheme, RVW Trust and Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung; also supported by British Council Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

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For Braxton

Lawrence Batley Theatre 9.30pm

Apartment House restructure their inner(sub)conscious hypothetical space, with a new sounding through the work of Anthony Braxton, Christian Wolff and sax/ clarinet musicomposer-(re)performer Frank Gratkowski. They present highly structured, yet liberated, sub-contexualised musings and sonica, through the quatro-voicings of guitar, piano, cello, sax/bass clarinet, including a newly commissioned work by Gratkowski.

Anthony Braxton Composition No 50 UK PREMIERE

Frank Gratkowski new work (hcmf co-commission) WORLD PREMIERE

Christian Wolff Exercises Anthony Braxton Composition No 322 (+ 139) UK PREMIERE

Apartment House + Frank Gratkowski The Braxton Project WORLD PREMIERE

ELISION + John Butcher

ELISION performs interpretations and composed responses to the work of Anthony Braxton. Curated by saxophonist and composer Timothy O’Dwyer, this extended piece explores scores for small and large ensembles from the past four decades of the Braxton canon, interspersed with compositions and improvisations by the ELISION Ensemble, inspired by the organisational concepts of Braxton’s recent large group compositions – particularly that of 9 Compositions (Iridium).

Frank Gratkowski’s Produced by new work is co-commissioned by hcmf and November music supported by British Council Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

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Monday 23 – Friday 27 November

Philip Thomas: Michael Pisaro CAB Atrium 11am daily Mon 23 – Fri 27 Nov Michael Pisaro pi (1-2594) Philip Thomas piano

Michael Pisaro’s pi (1-2594), composed in 1998, is a collection of pieces for one piano, each setting a certain number of decimal places of the constant pi (π, or Archimedes constant).

Each day a piece, or pieces, will be chosen for performance using chance methods, resulting in a performance which will last anywhere between five minutes and one hour.

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Monday 23 November

shorts LBT & Creative Arts Building 1pm – 5pm

These short performances provide up and coming musicians and ensembles with a valuable platform to perform at the UK’s leading new music festival. The series takes place on one intensive day of activity, and is accompanied by a marketplace where emerging artists can meet industry representatives to find out about exciting opportunities available to them.

LBT 1pm

CR:ACC Christian Wolff’s seminal work, Burdocks, will be performed by a new and exciting improvising group from Glasgow. Burdocks was first performed in August 1971 and consists of ten sections. Whilst it is the most performed of his indeterminate scores, Wolff’s output is rarely heard today.

CR:ACC Ensemble Christian Wolff Burdocks

Phipps Hall 1.40pm Jonathan Sage clarinet Richard Glover Bi-linear Steve Reich New York Counterpoint

Minimal and Minimalist New York Counterpoint is written for 11 clarinet parts, with the performer prerecording and multi-tracking the 10 accompanying parts and then playing the solo part over the top. Richard Glover’s Bi-linear is a piece with minimal pitch and rhythm content.

Free Events

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Monday 23 November

shorts CAB Room CAA 2/01 2.20pm G. Douglas Barrett A Few Silence

Phipps Hall 3pm Richard Uttley piano

G. Douglas Barrett A Few Silence is a piece in which the very site of performance becomes the subject of documentation. In it, performers create ‘live’ written transcriptions of the sounds of their surroundings and then perform their respective scores using various instruments and objects.

Richard Uttley Three recent British works centring on various manifestations of ecstasy.

Joe Cutler Clavinova Music Thomas Adès Traced Overhead, op.15 Chris Willis Burning Up

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Phipps Hall 3.40pm Ignacio Agrimbau Anatomy of the Self

CAB Atrium 4.20pm Workers Union Ensemble David Ibbett new work

Ignacio Agrimbau Anatomy of the Self is the name given to a performance / recording project based around the electronic elaboration and manipulation of originally acoustic material, which is usually half-improvised. The pieces presented here, Anatomy of the Self II and III, are based on Oud and Ma-Wu performances with added drums.

Workers Union Ensemble Our collaboration focuses on the enlargement, refinement, re-organisation and intensification of the ensemble’s sound via electronics. Through juxtapositions and dialogues between the instruments and their recorded selves, an extended timbral palette is created with increased scope, technique and texture – creating a world which is rich yet unified.

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Piano Phasing

Town Hall 6.30pm

Piano Phasing is based on a vision of the work’s composer, Kristoffer Zegers.

Kristoffer Zegers Piano Phasing UK PREMIERE

As a child, Zegers was fascinated by the rhythmic phases of church-bells, which never ring in time. When he began to compose, he noticed that even pieces of music with minimal rhythmical differences are sometimes subject to these phases. It is this ‘weakness’ (which often appears just by playing) that is the strongest element of Piano Phasing, making rhythmical variations possible despite the piece being fully composed and notated.

50 pianists and 25 pianos come together in this exciting large-scale performance. supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum Nederland, NFPK+ and Besbrode Pianos Free Event

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Monday 23 November

Nieuw Ensemble 1

St Paul’s Hall 7.30pm

Four world premieres from the region’s most exciting emerging composers mark the culmination of the first year of the hcmf & Nieuw Ensemble Composers’ Professional Development Programme.

Ben Isaacs new work WORLD PREMIERE

Jenny Jackson new work WORLD PREMIERE

Lauren Redhead the empiricist view WORLD PREMIERE

Dimitris Maronidis Anamorphosis WORLD PREMIERE

Earlier this year, Ben Isaacs, Jenny Jackson, Dimitris Maronidis and Lauren Redhead participated in a series of workshops in Amsterdam, where they had the opportunity to try out new ideas with the ensemble and receive advice and guidance from the tutors. supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum Nederland, NFPK+ and Musicians Benevolent Fund Free Event

Nieuw Ensemble

Open rehearsal

Bas Wiegers conductor Joël Bons artistic director

You can drop in to hear the Nieuw Ensemble rehearsing the first works from the hcmf & Nieuw Ensemble Composers’ Professional Development Programme on Sunday 22 November, St Paul’s Hall, 7pm – 10pm.

Free Event

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Monday 23 November

Bates Mill 10pm Bill Thompson electronics Rick Reed electronics Keith Rowe guitar/electronics Bill Thompson Shifting Currents (hcmf commission)

Devised in collaboration with Le Weekend in Stirling and sound in Aberdeen, this new commission looks at the very idea of place as part of its starting concept. Bates Mill in Huddersfield, the Church of the Holy Rude in Stirling and the Fraserborough Lighthouse share nothing in common except possibly their uniqueness. Bill Thompson has taken field recordings from each location and has built a sound world, which will create the backbone for the three musicians to explore the shifting sonic environment. co-commissioned by Produced by , Le Weekend and sound; supported by PRS Foundation, EsmĂŠe Fairbairn Foundation and Scottish Arts Council Free Event

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Genevieve Lacey

Phipps Hall 1pm

This programme is born of a recording project, which was half a decade in the making. Titled weaver-of-fictions, it takes its name from a haunting solo by Liza Lim, prelude to her opera The Navigator. We finish with another solo from the same opera, and in between the journey takes us via Australian bird miniatures from John Rodgers, to electro-acoustic works by Brett Dean, Bob Scott, Steve Adam and Damian Barbeler, and another solo for the beautifully expressive Ganassi recorder, by cult UK jazz figure, John Surman. The programme also includes a single contemporary recorder classic, Romitelli’s Seascape (1994), for amplified contrabass. Apart from this, all the works were written for Genevieve Lacey.

Liza Lim weaver-of-fictions UK PREMIERE

Brett Dean & Bob Scott Miss Genevieve’s Nocturne EUROPEAN PREMIERE

John Rodgers The Grey Thrush EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Damian Barbeler Confession 2 EUROPEAN PREMIERE

John Rodgers The Magpie EUROPEAN PREMIERE

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Steve ‘Stelios’ Adam et døgn EUROPEAN PREMIERE

John Surman In the Distance EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Fausto Romitelli Seascape John Rodgers Jackie Winter and friends EUROPEAN PREMIERE

John Rodgers Little Brown Honeyeater EUROPEAN PREMIERE © Elizabeth O’Donnell

Liza Lim the long forgetting UK PREMIERE

Genevieve Lacey recorder

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Š Grenville Charles

Tuesday 24 November

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Phipps Hall 4pm Joseph Kudirka fidelity WORLD PREMIERE

Christian Wolff Small Preludes 1-5 WORLD PREMIERE

Larry Polansky tooaytoods 1-4 UK PREMIERE

G. Douglas Barrett Derivation IIIa UK PREMIERE

Larry Polansky tooaytoods 5-8 UK PREMIERE

Christian Wolff Small Preludes 6-10

mall Preludes, Aytoods S and other new music from America This programme of American music introduces a number of emerging young experimentalists to the UK alongside recent pieces by three key figures whose influence upon experimental music in the USA is undisputed.

Christian Wolff, Larry Polansky and Michael Pisaro, as well as being utterly original composers, are well known as teachers, performers, publishers (Polansky’s Frog Peak Publications is a treasure-trove of American music) and advocates of the experimental tradition.

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WORLD PREMIERE

Craig Shephard Weehawken

G. Douglas Barrett Derivation IIIc

WORLD PREMIERE

UK PREMIERE

Travis Just And I am not being frivolous now, either.

Christian Wolff Small Preludes 16-20

WORLD PREMIERE

G. Douglas Barrett Derivation IIIb UK PREMIERE

Christian Wolff Small Preludes 11-15 WORLD PREMIERE

Michael Winter a chance happening...

WORLD PREMIERE

Larry Polansky tooaytoods 9-11, 14a, 14b UK PREMIERE

Michael Pisaro fields have ears UK PREMIERE

Philip Thomas piano

UK PREMIERE

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Tuesday 24 November

© Thomas Lenden

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Nieuw Ensemble 2

St Paul’s Hall 7.30pm

l’Ecriture, the composer’s craftsmanship that is traditionally held in high esteem in France and Italy, is omnipresent in two breathtaking virtuoso works by Italians Bellon and Francesconi. With his poetic and original sound world Gérard Pesson sets an example to the younger French generation. The programme is completed by the masterly oboe concerto by Korean composer Seung-Ah Oh and two works of young composers from Turkey and Colombia.

Luca Francesconi A fuoco UK PREMIERE

Gérard Pesson Récréations françaises UK PREMIERE

Stefano Bellon En roscas de cristal serpiente breve UK PREMIERE

Erçin Kaya Brackets – [], (), {}, <>

supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum Nederland and NFPK+ Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

UK PREMIERE

Natalia Dominguez Speech Perceptions UK PREMIERE

Seung-Ah Oh JungGa UK PREMIERE

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© Anika Neese

Tuesday 24 November

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Sebastian Berweck

Phipps Hall 10pm

How to escape the romantic piano? Five young composers from Germany give five radical and radically different answers by (mis)using the piano and other veritable instruments. So let’s go inside the piano, turn the volume up and use a pianist’s skills to extend the piano and its great heritage into our time. Because it’s about time.

Thomas Wenk Taurus CT-600 UK PREMIERE

Benjamin Lang ABDucensparese UK PREMIERE

Johannes Kreidler Klavierstück 5 UK PREMIERE

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Michael Maierhof splitting 28.1 UK PREMIERE

Enno Poppe Arbeit UK PREMIERE

Sebastian Berweck piano, cassette, recorders, keyboards

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Wednesday 25 November

© Karoly Effenberger

18.

Louis Andriessen 70: Andriessen Peanuts

Bates Mill 2pm

In June 2009, Louis Andriessen had his 70th birthday. hcmf has invited some of his best friends to present his work in two concerts, with some birthday presents included. The afternoon brings some diamonds from his lesser-known small-scale work, featuring Ensemble Nieuw Amsterdams Peil (NAP), pianist Gerard Bouwhuis, violinist Heleen Hulst and the two soloists for whom Andriessen has written many works in the last decade: singer Cristina Zavalloni and violinist Monica Germino. And, not to forget: Andriessen himself.

Louis Andriessen Passeggiata (trio version) UK PREMIERE

Trepidus Image de Moreau Bells for Haarlem XENIA Double Track Letter from Cathy Le voile du bonheur Y Despues Jay Alan Yim Driving School WORLD PREMIERE

Johann Sebastian Bach trio sonata ‘Hadewijch’ slow part Martijn Padding Mordants Julia Wolfe Hope and Trust UK PREMIERE

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supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum nederland and NFPK+ Tickets £18 (£16 concessions; £12 online) Louis Andriessen Nieuw Amsterdams Pell Cristina Zavalloni voice Monica Germino violin Gerard Bouwhuis piano Heleen Hulst violin

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Wednesday 25 November

19.

Louis Andriessen 70: Andriessen in black and white

Bates Mill 8pm

Louis Andriessen A very sharp trumpet sonata

The evening Andriessen event brings in his old friend Stravinsky followed by some groundbreaking pieces from the 70s and 80s.

De Staat will be performed in the exciting two-piano version by two former members of the group Hoketus, Gerard Bouwhuis and Cees van Zeeland, who will also join Icebreaker in a performance of the piece Hoketus. Icebreaker will return to the origins of the group with James Poke’s arrangement of Velocity.

Louis Andriessen A very sad trumpet sonata

supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum nederland and NFPK+

Igor Stravinsky Fanfare for a New Theatre Igor Stravinsky (arr. Igor Stravinsky) Agon

Louis Andriessen (arr. The Piano Duo) De Staat Louis Andriessen Hoketus Louis Andriessen (arr. James Poke) Velocity (De Snelheid) Louis Andriessen The Hague Hacking Scrap UK PREMIERE

The Piano Duo Gerard Bouwhuis piano Cees van Zeeland piano Icebreaker

Tickets £18 (£16 concessions; £12 online)

Louis Andriessen 70: films Phipps Hall hcmf presents two short films 6pm featuring the music of Louis

Andriessen, including The New Math(s) (Dir. Hal Hartley), which tells the story of two students and a teacher who struggle over a mathematical equation.

Free Event

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Thursday 26 November

Š Duncan Chapman

The Music of Electricity

Huddersfield Art Gallery 11.30am

A-level students and primary school pupils perform a series of pieces inspired by digital artist Tim Headâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, following a series of workshops with sonic artist Duncan Chapman, including explorations of twitching speakers and tiny fragments of sound!

Free Event

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ELISION 2

St Paul’s Hall 1pm

A programme of premieres conducted by Manuel Nawri exploring the physicality of sound: the choreography of action and timbre pushing the limits of instrumental possibility, sometimes violently, sometimes gently, but often with unpredictable or unstable sonic outcomes.

Timothy McCormack Disfix UK PREMIERE

Bryn Harrison new work WORLD PREMIERE

Liza Lim Invisibility WORLD PREMIERE

Einar Einarsson new work WORLD PREMIERE

© Justin Nicholas

New works from Liza Lim, Aaron Cassidy, Bryn Harrison,Timothy McCormack and Einar Torfi Einarsson. in association with Produced by The University of Huddersfield Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

Aaron Cassidy

Because they mark the zone where the force is in the process of striking (or Second Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) WORLD PREMIERE

Aaron Cassidy

What then renders these forces visible is a strange smile (or, First Study for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion) UK PREMIERE

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Thursday 26 November

21.

Noriko Kawai: Nunes

St Paul’s Hall 6pm

Noriko Kawai returns to the Festival to give a solo recital featuring two large-scale works

by Emmanuel Nunes, Litanies du feu et de la mer I and II, dating from 1969 and 1971.

The programme also includes three world premieres: a new work by Thomas Simaku and two miniatures from James Dillon.

Emmanuel Nunes Litanies du feu et de la mer I Thomas Simaku Stepping Up WORLD PREMIERE

Emmanuel Nunes Litanies du feu et de la mer II

part of the Emmanuel Produced by Nunes Portrait supported by Réseau Varèse Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

James Dillon Charm WORLD PREMIERE

James Dillon Dragon-fly WORLD PREMIERE

Noriko Kawai piano

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Š Kai Bienert for MaerzMusik, Berliner Festspiele

Thursday 26 November

22.

Words and Beyond

Bates Mill 8pm

Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi is inspired by the life and poems of a very notable courtesan from ancient Korea.

Seung-Ah Oh Words and Beyond: Hwang Jin-Yi

A lower class woman, Hwang Jin-Yi worked her way into the world of aristocracy, literature and politics, developing into an enlightened thinker whose fame still appeals in 21st-century.

UK PREMIERE

Slagwerkgroep Den Haag Magriet van Riesen voice Kenzo Kusuda dancer

A singer, a dancer and four percussionists express Hwang Jin-Yi’s transition, her inner conflict and feelings of despair. The performers act as slowly moving sculptures in a set that is designed as an art installation, with the audience surrounding them.

‘Intriguing Asian atmosphere and emotions very much in control’ Volkskrant supported by Produced by Muziek Centrum Nederland and NFPK+ Tickets £14 (£12 concessions; £9 online)

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Friday 27 November

© Astrid Ackermann

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Rolf Hind: Liza Lim

Phipps Hall 1pm

‘New pieces from Italy, Germany, Australia and the UK, all trying to make sense of the piano’s place in the repertoire.

Rolf Hind A jasmine petal, a single hair, seven mattresses, a pea

Liza Lim’s first piece for piano is a major work, typically thoughtful, energetic and beautiful.

My own piece is a kind of fairytale and the first overtly virtuosic thing I’ve ever written for the piano. In Thomalla’s piece the piano and its repertoire is deconstructed and the instrument becomes, literally and figuratively, an echo chamber, while Mauro Lanza’s piece is fast, funny and hurtles relentlessly to a brutal conclusion.’

Rolf Hind

UK PREMIERE

Hans Thomalla Piano counterpart UK PREMIERE

Mauro Lanza Predellino Liza Lim The Four Seasons (after Cy Twombly), 2009 UK PREMIERE

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Rolf Hind piano

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© Thomas Agerfeldt Olesen

Friday 27 November

24.

Jexper Holmen Portrait

St Paul’s Hall 6pm

Frode Haltli, Torben Snekkestad, Frode Andersen and Enjar Kanding perform the premieres of three pieces for accordions, saxophone and electronics by Danish composer Jexper Holmen.

Jexper Holmen Lullabies WORLD PREMIERE

Eris WORLD PREMIERE

Oort Cloud UK PREMIERE

Frode Haltli accordion Frode Andersen accordion Torben Snekkestad soprano saxophone Jexper Holmen accordion Ejnar Kanding sound engineer

‘Lullabies explores the unspoken ghastliness of the lullaby. Eris is named after the ancient Greek goddess of strife. Oort is a 40-minute sphere of sound, inspired by the cloud of comets believed to surround the solar system a light-year away. The music is extremely slow and relentless, not unlike a cosmic disaster’ Jexper Holmen supported by Produced by SNYK and the Danish Composers’ Society Tickets £10 (£8 concession; £6 online)

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Friday 27 November

25.

Musica Elettronica Viva

Phipps Hall 8pm

Spanning continents, styles, high and low technologies and around for four decades, Musica Elettronica Viva occupies a unique place in contemporary music.

Alvin Curran Frederic Rzewski Richard Teitelbaum

Founded in Rome in 1966 to play avantgarde composition, the group evolved into an improvising ensemble deploying sophisticated synthesiser technology alongside tin cans and panes of glass, leaving no potential sound-source unexplored.

Recent collaborations with veteran British improvisers AMM and festival appearances by members Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski and Richard Teitelbaum attest to the durability of MEV’s generous aesthetic.

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Saturday 28 November

26.

Frederic Rzewski

Phipps Hall 12 noon

American composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Rzewski performs his own music in a rare and special performance at hcmf.

Frederic Rzewski Nanosonatas Books III - VI

‘The basic idea of a nanosonata is a form in which different elements come together as they do in a sonata, but do not develop.

Instead of developing, they are left hanging, something like the characters that frequently appear in Tolstoy, who are described in a few words in a way that makes it clear that a whole book could be written about them, but isn’t. A nanosonata should seem too short.’

Frederic Rzewski

Frederic Rzewski piano

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Saturday 28 November

© Guy Vivien

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Quatuor Diotima

St Paul’s Hall 2pm

Quatuor Diotima’s 21st-century programme features a BBC-commissioned quartet by Matthew Shlomowitz, the fourth section of Alberto Posadas’ Liturgia Fractal, Radius by York-based composer Thomas Simaku, and the UK premiere and second performance of Improvisation IV by Emmanuel Nunes.

Matthew Shlomowitz Theme Street Parade (BBC Radio 3 commission) WORLD PREMIERE

Alberto Posadas Arborescencias (from Liturgia Fractal) UK PREMIERE

Thomas Simaku Radius - String Quartet No 2 Emmanuel Nunes Improvisation IV l’électricité de la pensée humaine

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UK PREMIERE

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© Pedro Claúdio - Casa da Música

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Remix Ensemble 1

Town Hall 4pm

The music of Jonathan Harvey performed by the Portuguese Remix Ensemble takes you on a fantastic journey through distant and exotic landscapes.

Jonathan Harvey Jubilus Emmanuel Nunes Nachtmusik 1 UK PREMIERE

Jonathan Harvey Moving Trees James Dillon Überschreiten Remix Ensemble Rolf Gupta musical director David Ryan video

The isolation and awe-inspiring austerity of a Buddhist monastery is portrayed in Jubilus.

Moving Trees was written to accompany a dance film by Anne Teresa de Keersmaker that showed three beautiful girls moving amongst trees and leaves.

These two introspective works provide an effective contrast with the pieces by Nunes and Dillon. part of the Emmanuel Produced by Nunes Portrait supported by Réseau Varèse Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

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Saturday 28 November

© Klaus Rudolph

musikFabrik 1: 29. Sringara Chaconne St Paul’s Hall 7pm Jonathan Harvey Sringara Chaconne UK PREMIERE

Rebecca Saunders Disclosure EUROPEAN PREMIERE

Liza Lim Songs found in Dream Richard Glover new work (hcmf commission) WORLD PREMIERE

musikFabrik perform pieces from some of the finest English-speaking composers of our time, spanning three generations and reflecting the variety in new music today.

Of the four, Liza Lim is the most far-reaching and open to outer-European influences, whilst Jonathan Harvey is deeply rooted in European contemporary music and Rebecca Saunders represents the younger generation.

What the new voices have to offer can be heard in the world premiere of Richard Glover’s new work. supported by Produced by The German Federal Foreign Office Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

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London Sinfonietta / 30. fORCH Bates Mill 9.15pm

A concert to celebrate Richard Barrett’s versatility both as a composer and performer, in his 50th year.

Jonathan Harvey Bhakti

Inspired by artefacts found on ancient archeological sites, Richard Barrett’s Mesopotamia has a dense, multi-layered structure that imitates the successive destruction and re-building of communities throughout history. Scored for 17 instruments and electronics, the piece forms the fifth part of a series of compositions collectively entitled resistance & vision. Mesopotamia will be played alongside Jonathan Harvey’s Bhakti – a reflective, spiritual exploration of Sanskrit hymns, some of the world’s oldest religious texts.

Richard Barrett Mesopotamia WORLD PREMIERE

Richard Barrett & fORCH fOKT 6 London Sinfonietta Pierre - André Valade conductor Sound Intermedia fORCH Richard Barrett electronics

Mesopotamia is Produced by commissioned by the London Sinfonietta with generous support from the London Sinfonietta Commissioning Circle; part of this concert will be broadcast live by BBC Radio 3.

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Š Luis Neuenhofer

fORCH was formed in 2005, based around the electro-acoustic duo FURT (Richard Barrett & Paul Obermayer). The duo is combined with two vocalists and four instrumentalists, all leading players in experimental music who have developed their own unprecedented sounds and techniques, so that the boundary between electronic and acoustic sound may be constantly crossed from either direction.

Sunday 29 November

© Pedro Claúdio - Casa da Música

31. Remix Ensemble 2 St Paul’s Hall 1pm Antonio Augusto Aguiar Pandora (improvisation for indetermined instruments) UK PREMIERE

Luis Tinoco O curso da águas (The Drift of the Waters) Rebecca Saunders Fury – for solo double bass

A varied programme of chamber music from Portuguese composers starts with a musical game of cards by one of the performers and includes major works from the world renowned composer Emmanuel Nunes.

The wind quartet The Drift of the Waters by Luís Tinoco provokes the imagination with strong references to visual imagery. part of the Emmanuel Produced by Nunes Portrait supported by Réseau Varèse Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

UK PREMIERE

Emmanuel Nunes Versus II UK PREMIERE

Emmanuel Nunes Rubato, registres et résonances UK PREMIERE

Remix Ensemble Rolf Gupta musical director

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Sunday 29 November

Š Brian Slater

vocalise

Town Hall 4pm Alvin Curran OH MAN OH MANKIND OH YEAH A Community Sing (hcmf commission) WORLD PREMIERE

vocalise Huddersfield Choral Society Instrumentalists from the University of Huddersfield

OH MAN OH MANKIND OH YEAH is a contemporary community-sing for over one hundred voices of the Huddersfield Choral Society, , a singing ramâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s horn and an instrumental ensemble of six players and four bass drums.

This work is about singing, transforming ponderous mass into weightless matter, singing invisibly together, singing in reckless conflict and sweet harmony, singing with you...so join in at the end if you like! vocalise was formed earlier in 2009 as part of an initiative for young people in North Kirklees to create and explore new vocal music.

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Sunday 29 November

© Michael Bölter

musikFabrik 2: 32. Poppe/Heiniger Lawrence Batley Theatre 7.30pm Enno Poppe / Wolfgang Heiniger Tiere sitzen nicht UK PREMIERE

musikFabrik

Developed over almost a year, Tiere sitzen nicht (animals don’t sit) is a co-production of the work of composers Enno Poppe and Wolfgang Heiniger and the ensemble musikFabrik.

Both the musicians and the composers were led by the idea of creating an artistic process which lacks a single directing authority and is, instead, influenced by the sounds and movements of the musicians themselves, using a computer program developed especially for this work to enable the participants to bring forth their own ideas. supported by Produced by The German Federal Foreign Office Tickets £18 (£16 concession; £12 online)

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The discounted ticket scheme for 17 – 25 year olds is sponsored by the Royal Philharmonic Society.

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Information Please Note Latecomers to performances will not be admitted until a suitable break can be found in the programme. hcmf will do everything reasonable to ensure the performance of the published programme but reserves the right to change artists and programmes or cancel a concert in the event of circumstances beyond its control.

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Programme Book An indispensible guide packed with information about this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performers, composers and music. Programme books cost ÂŁ2 each and are free to Benefactor and Patron level Members. A free Festival Programme book is also available to Full Festival Saver bookers.

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Travel Information

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Cedar Court Hotel hcmfâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s accommodation partner is Cedar Court Huddersfield, the townâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only 4-star hotel. Located approximately 3 miles from the town centre, close to J24 of the M62, Cedar Court has 114 bedrooms, excellent restaurant and bar facilities, health club and plentiful parking. During the Festival a shuttle bus will operate between the Hotel and the town centre. Limited numbers of rooms are available. Call 01422 375431, www.cedarcourthotels.co.uk

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festival hub @ The Lawrence Batley Theatre is right at the heart of hcmf 2009, as home to the Festival Hub. A social hub for Festival audience, artists and composers the LBT is the place to drink, eat and meet - offering a combination of good food (served upstairs in The Upper Bar) and wine and beers (served in The Bar on the ground floor).

Open daily throughout the Festival from 10am until late.

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SCHOOL OF ARTS INTERFACE AND INNOVATION Music at Brunel is delighted to be represented at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival by the brilliant pianist Sarah Nicolls. Sarah is one of the team of contemporary music specialists, led by composers Christopher Fox and Peter Wiegold and soon to be joined by Jennifer Walshe, who make up Brunelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Centre for Contemporary Music Practice.

Situated in West London, Brunel offers postgraduate students a rich musical environment, including opportunities to work with associate artists such as Piano Circus and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

Applications are invited for the MMus/MA contemporary Music for Sept 2010.

For further details on the above and for information on our MPhil and Phd research degrees contact: sue.ramus@brunel.ac.uk 01895 266569 We have an exciting range of BA and BMus programmes.

For further details please contact: suzanne.wills@ brunel.ac.uk 01895 266248

www.brunel.ac.uk/music