Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Archive is the UK’s largest international festival of new and experimental music. It was established in 1978 and continues to take place in venues all over Huddersfield across 10 days during November. Over the last 30 years the Festival has presented 381 world premieres, 813 UK premieres, and since 1991 its education programme has involved over 5,745 individuals in 50 different projects. Musical Journey During the 2009 Festival the archival records of hcmf// were transferred to the University to enable public access and research into this unique collection. The collection contains all kinds of archives, from financial and marketing records to performer contracts, musical scores and audio-visual recordings of concerts. These records chart the exciting history of the Festival from its modest beginnings to an internationally renowned event on the contemporary music stage. The Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Archive presents a truly fantastic resource for researchers of all levels, with the significance of the collection not just limited to the development of hcmf// itself. These records also reflect and tell the much bigger story of the local, national and international development of new and experimental music throughout the world in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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2013 A. a shadow opera Š Brian Slater
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2003, Music Theatre Wales
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