Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra are delighted to have been invited to be the resident orchestra for a new venture, Huddersfield Youth Opera, whose opening concert “excerpts from the world’s favourite operas” will be on Saturday 25th September 2010, 7.30pm at the Lawrence Batley Theatre. We are particularly happy that our leader, Mary Barber, ..read more

We intend to perform an exciting series of three ‘themed’ subscriber concerts this season, the run up to our 150th Anniversary in 2012.

Dates booked for the Huddersfield Town Hall (”subscriber” season 2010-11) are as follows, with the final musical programmes as indicated. 

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

Among a number of highly favourable reviews of Saturdays’ concert on April 24th 2010 in the Town Hall the following positively glowing comment was kindly posted on the HPS website by Mr Brian Kay.

“It was such a pleasure to be able to hear The Phil’s St George’s Day concert – all top quality ..read more

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

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

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

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