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Hanna Hartman is composer in residence for Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival 2019

hcmf// includes open call for young curators with its line-up announcement

Happening between 15–24 November, the programme of this year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival is built around the work of Swedish composer-in-residence Hanna Hartman.

Artists also premiering new music in Huddersfield include Ann Cleare, Naomi Pinnock, Jürg Frey, Marcus Granberg and Georg Friedrich Haas. And on 23 November Frank Denyer's 1990s work The Fish That Became The Sun gets its long delayed first public performance.

Other participants include Jenny Hval, Christine Sun Kim, Ellen Arkbro, Kelly Jayne, Nadah El Shazly, Philip Thomas, Irmin Schmidt and Claudia Molitor, as well as Seth Parker Woods honouring the legacy of Charlotte Moorman, Evan Parker marking his 75th birthday, and Heiner Goebbels giving a rare piano performance.

Finally, the programme has put out an open call for young curators aged between 18–30 aimed at developing talent and leadership for music programmers, promoters and curators of the future. Deadline: 4 October.