Bringing world-class chamber music to the heart of Kirklees

Huddersfield Music Society (HMS) is a Registered Charity which was formed in 1918. It promotes seven high quality chamber music concerts from September to April each season.

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Huddersfield Music Society

Huddersfield Music Society (HMS) is a Registered Charity which was formed in 1918. It promotes seven high quality chamber music concerts from October to April each season. Concerts are held monthly on Monday evenings in St Paul’s Hall at the University of Huddersfield. HMS promotes performances by established professionals and newly emerging musicians. Some of the biggest names in classical music have performed for HMS in the last century, including pianists Solomon, Louis Kentner, Clifford Curzon, Angela Hewitt and Benjamin Grosvenor, singers such as Peter Pears (with Benjamin Britten), Kathleen Ferrier, Emma Kirkby with the Rose Consort of Viols, and Roderick Williams; instrumentalists including the Amadeus String Quartet, the Pražák, Ysaÿe and Takács String Quartets, the Lindsays and the Carducci Quartet. HMS is pleased to work with the Making Music organisation and with the Countess of Munster Musical Trust, the City Music Foundation, and the Young Classical Artists Trust.

2024-2025 season (106th)

Concerts and Tickets

LUMAS WINDS

December 2, 2024
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Doors open at 7pm, Concert starts at 7.30pm

Beth Stone (flute), Ewan Millar (oboe), Rennie Sutherland (clarinet) Flo Plane (bassoon), Benjamin Hartnell-Booth (horn)

György Ligeti  Six Bagatelles (1953)
Valerie Colman  Rubispheres for flute, clarinet and bassoon (2015)
Pavel Haas  Wind Quintet Op 10 (1929)
George Gershwin  Porgy and Bess Suite (Extracts)
Carl Nielsen  Wind Quintet Op 43 (1923)

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BRIDGE QUARTET

January 27, 2025
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Doors open at 7pm, Concert starts at 7.30pm

Colin Twigg & Catherine Schofield (violins), Michael Schofield (viola), Lucy Wilding (cello)

Mozart  Quartet in D minor K421
Arnold Cooke  Quartet No 2
Brahms  Quartet in C minor, Op 51 No 1

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TRIO MEISTER RARO

February 17, 2025
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Doors open at 7pm, Concert starts at 7.30pm

Robert Plane (clarinet), Rachel Roberts (viola), Tim Horton (piano)

Max Bruch  Selection from 8 Pieces for clarinet, viola and piano, Op 83
Huw Watkins  Speak Seven Seas
Robert Schumann  Märchenerzählungen Op 132
Rebecca Clarke  Prelude, Allegro and Pastorale
Mozart  Trio for Clarinet, Viola and Piano in E flat major K. 498, (Kegelstatt)

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LUMIC QUARTET

March 24, 2025
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Doors open at 7pm, Concert starts at 7.30pm

Martyn Jackson (violin), Will Newell (violin), Jane Atkins (viola), Nathaniel Boyd (cello)

Beethoven  String Quartet No 7 in F major Op 59 No 1 (Razumovsky)
Joey Roukens  Visions at Sea
Beethoven  String Quartet No 9 in C major Op 59 No 3 (Razumovsky)

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HEARTWOOD STRING QUARTET (RNCM)

April 7, 2025
St Paul’s Hall, University of Huddersfield

Doors open at 7pm, Concert starts at 7.30pm

Janáček   String Quartet No 1 (Kreutzer Sonata)

Haydn   String Quartet in E-flat major, Hob.III:38 (Joke)

J Montgomery  Strum for string quartet (2006, rev. 2012)

Dvorak   String Quartet No 12 in F major, Op. 96 (American)

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