Mar 012010

Fantastic News!!!

If you are interested in joining the Phil for their next concert then getting your tickets couldn’t be easier. Not only is it easier but you get to select the seats you want yourself.

Simply visit here, select the Hudds Phil event on the 24th of April and choose your ..read more

Feb 142010

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

Feb 092010

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

Feb 032010

More mention of the Phil in the local press.

Jan 302010

The Society’s current President, Paul Mulcock, was interviewed recently by the newspapers’ Cultural Editor, Val Javin. You can read the resulting article entitled “Join the town’s Phil on a musical journey” by following this link.

Dec 242009

In addition to being Principal Conductor of the Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra, Natalia is Musical Director of the Haffner Orchestra in Lancaster and the Hallam Sinfonia in Sheffield. Since winning the second prize at the Maazel-Vilar Conductors’ Competition in New York in 2002, she has worked with orchestras both in the ..read more

Dec 232009
An die Musik

An die Musik

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

Dec 232009
Dance band on the Titanic

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

Dec 222009

Concert review by William Marshall, Huddersfield Examiner

Felix Mendelssohn, born in 1809, is one of a roster of composers whose various anniversaries are being celebrated this year. And the Huddersfield Phil paid him a heartfelt tribute in the town hall on Saturday.

When one takes into account that wintry weather had disrupted ..read more

Dec 222009

Review by William Marshall, Huddersfield Examiner

Saturday’s concert included accomplished performances of a Beethoven symphony and of Elgar’s most famous orchestral work. When this is added to the fine account of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique at the orchestra’s spring concert, it would certainly seem that, under principal conductor Natalia Luis-Bassa, ..read more