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
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
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
More mention of the Phil in the local press.
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.
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
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
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
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
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