The Huddersfield Philharmonic and Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestras will be performing together in the Huddersfield Town Hall in a concert featuring the best of local musical talent.  

Featuring prize winners in the 2010 Mrs Sunderland Competition Lindley Junior School Choir and Katrina Lee (runner-up winner in Kirklees Young Musician of the Year 2010) ..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

Unashamedly patriotic music is programmed for our next concert, falling as it does on the day after St George’s Day.  A concert featuring twentieth-century English music by Vaughan Williams, Arnold and Elgar. 

For those of you who have enjoyed the well-known tunes included in the concert on 6 February, the overture ..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

HPO Conductors:

Previous Leaders of the Orchestra:

Past Presidents:

2007-09      Mr Chris Leyland

2005-07      Dr Donald Ireland

2003-05      Mrs Karen Moyle

1999-2001   Mrs Karen Moyle

1996-98      Mr G. H. Smith

1994-96      Mr Stuart Sandys

1986-88      Mr J Gordon Sykes

1984-86      Mrs J M Jameson

Download the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra Brochure for 2009-2010 Kirklees Booking Offices Tel: 01484 223200/222444 or 01924 324501

Huddersfield Town Hall

Ramsden Street, Huddersfield, HD1 2TA

Offenbach: Overture – Orpheus in the Underworld Elgar: Suite No 2 – The Wand of Youth Dukas: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Grieg: Suite No 1 – Peer Gynt Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

Conductor: Natalia ..read more

The orchestra was founded by the Rev J.H. Thomas in 1862, going at first under the name of “Mr Thomas’s Band”. Later it took on the rather grander title of the “Fitzwilliam Street Philharmonic Society”, and adopted its present name shortly after the founder’s death in 1884, giving its first ..read more

2004 marked the 50th anniversary of an Anglo-German exchange between Huddersfield and Brunswick (Braunschweig). In September 1954, the Brunswick Symphony Orchestra (Conductor: Fritz Glahe; Leader: Hans Buttner; Cello Soloist: Annlies Schmidt) performed a programme of Gluck, Haydn and Beethoven in Huddersfield Town Hall. They also performed in Halifax ..read more

Most people know the story of the sinking of the Titanic… and that the band played on nobly as the ship went down. What you may not know is that the band leader – Wallace Hartley – was a former member of the Phil.

He appears to have ..read more

This extract from a newspaper article from the 1890s throws some light on William Henry Cross, the first conductor of the “Phil” under its new name (adopted in 1884). The article was supplied by Margaret Hall, an Australian descendant of Mr Cross, and reads:

“Although the composer is doubtless ..read more