The following story appeared in the Sunday Mirror of 27 March 2011 and, cpmplete with illustrations, is accessible on line at

www.mirror.co.uk/…/found-at-last-the-violin-played-by-the-titanic- bandmaster-as-the-ship-went-down-115875-23018075/ -

Other posts on this site document the link between Wallace Hartley and Huddersfield Philharmonic Orchestra

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The missing violin played by the Titanic’s band ..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:

- 2010      Mrs Mary Rafferty

Past Presidents:

2009 – 10     Mr Paul Mulcock

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