Due to an unexpected problem, you may not have received a reply to enquiries about the orchestra during the last 2 to 3 weeks. This problem has now been rectified. We apologise for this and would request that, if you have not already done so, you re-send the enquiry.  This will ..read more

Season brochure 10 11 final

You can use this brochure to find details of the concerts and see how you can purchase tickets.  If you wish, you can print out the brochure, complete the booking form and send it to the ticket and subscription secretary along with your cheque, rather than wait ..read more

Up-dated with information about a service of thanksgiving for Andrea:

There will be a service of thanksgiving for Andrea on Monday 26 July at 2.45 pm at Fartown Methodist Church. (Huddersfield Philharmonic members will know the location as our alternative rehearsal rooms.) Stuart Sandys will formally represent the Philharmonic but anyone ..read more

This preview featured in Huddersfield Examiner on Friday 14 May 2010.

Nine cellists will line-up to play a concert in Outlane tomorrow (May 15), four months after the original event was called off because of snow.

Bad weather forced the cancellation of the original concert planned for early January. Now the musicians ..read more

Come and hear the cello section of the orchestra in concert at Outlane Methodist Church.  No advance tickets.

Saturday 15 May 2010 at 7.30 pm

Featuring soprano Charmaine Beaumont

Bachianas Brasileiras numbers 1 and 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, plus other music for multiple and solo cellos.

There will be a retiring collection, refreshments to ..read more

REVIEW: by William Marshall. from Huddersfield Examiner 26 April 2010

DURING her introductory remarks, conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa raised doubts over whether she, a Venezuelan, could do interpretive justice to an all-English programme.

She was being light-hearted. But if the programme had been all-German, all-Italian or all-French, the jest would probably not have ..read more

Apr 23 2010 by Val Javin, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

 WHAT more could you ask for, musically speaking, on St George’s Day than a concert of English music?

And that is what Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra has in store at Huddersfield Town Hall tomorrow (April 24) with a programme that celebrates the best of ..read more

An innovation in this concert was that conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa spoke at some length to the audience in between items, describing and analysing them quite humorously.

It perhaps says something about the entrenched formality of classical music concerts that it should be such a surprise when lines of verbal communication are ..read more

Here’s where you could help us. Nowadays, we feature the biographies of our conductors regularly in our concert programmes. Back in the 1920s and 1930s they barely got a mention.  So we know that J Fletcher Sykes took up the baton as conductor in 1920 and that he was succeeded ..read more