Huddersfield Contemporary Records

Perhaps the most consistently and fearlessly challenging of UK new music labels … releasing some of the most unforgettable stuff I’ve heard this year" - Simon Cummings, 5:4

Founded in 2009, Huddersfield Contemporary Records (HCR) is a label devoted to new music. Based at the University of Huddersfield, and established in partnership between CeReNeM (the Centre for Research in New Music), Huddersfield University Press, and hcmf//, HCR features both established and emerging artists at the cutting edge of music making, including diverse innovations in instrumental composition, electronics, and free improvisation. HCR releases have been recorded and produced both in-house at the university and with a broad selection of professional partners, including hcmf//, ZKM, and Radio Bremen, and have attracted exceptional press attention for a label of its size.

HCR produces outward-facing compilations, internationally contextualised but centred on new music in the UK. The label develops concept-driven releases, typically featuring a single performing artist and multiple composers, often drawing on the resources of CeReNeM’s industry partnerships and its international research network.

Since 2015, HCR has been exclusively distributed by NMC Recordings. Browse the entire catalogue at https://www.nmcrec.co.uk

Three Descriptions of Place and Movement

Quatuor Bozzini

Bryn Harrison

Temporality of the Impossible

Dejana Sekulić, solo violin

Music by Clara Iannotta, Dario Buccino, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Cathy Milliken, and Aaron Cassidy

Singing in Tongues

ELISION Ensemble

Liza Lim, operas and vocal works 1993–2008

Smoke, Airs

Wet Ink Ensemble

Charmaine Lee | Bryn Harrison | Kristina Wolfe | Pierre Alexandre Tremblay

spilled out from tangles

Juliet Fraser (soprano)

Lisa Illean | Sivian Eldar | Nomi Epstein | Lawrence Dunn

Coming Up For Air

Kathryn Williams (flute)

40 works for a single breath, including contributions from Chaya Czernowin, Oliver Coates, Amber Priestley, Andy Ingamells, Larry Goves, Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh, Mary Bellamy, Stephen Chase, Mauricio Pauly, and Brian Ferneyhough