CeReNeM | Centre for Research in New Music

24/04/2026

EVENT: A concert given by Australia's international contemporary music ensemble ELISION - Carl Rosman (clarinets) and Alex Waite (piano), featuring works by Cassidy, Barrett, Johnson, Karski, Lim and Morgan-Williams.
St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, Sunday 26 April, 7pm
FREE ENTRY

Programme:

Aaron Cassidy - 27. Juni 2009 (2021) 10’30″ for Eb clarinet

Liza Lim - Transcendental Étude (2022) 9’ for solo piano with shruti box

Evan Johnson - contemptus mundi (2021) 14′ for clarinet in C and piano

Bethan Morgan-Williams - Gêmdisyn (2020) 9′ for Eb clarinet

Dominik Karski - Ultimae Paginae (2022- 26) 9’40” for solo piano

Richard Barrett - Flechtwerk (2004-06) 15′ for clarinet in A and piano

Photo Credit: Lauren Murphy

27/03/2026

REMINDER EVENT TODAY: A concert given by world renowned violinist/violist Marco Fusi
St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, Friday 27th March, 7:30pm
FREE ENTRY
(Photo by Alex Matthews for The Qualcomm Institute)
The program features works for solo viola and solo viola d’amore by CeReNeM composers including a work by CeReNeM Alumni Timothy McCormack heard for the first time in Huddersfield.
Programme:
Flo Christman: New Work (2026) - for viola d’amore and electronics (World Premiere)
Paul Dunkerley - The Reflection is Wrong (2026) - for solo viola (World Premiere)
Timothy McCormack - …, stretched across its axes - for solo viola (2025)
This concert stretches the instrumental affordances of a string instrument across time and space, opening up to electrified resonances, fractured time and memories, and physical touch and pressure. Through very different time spans, each piece build its own world, made of sounds in dialogue, bodies, and perceptions. A single performer on stage is the common ground, the guide through these sonic landscapes.

21/03/2026

EVENT: A concert given by world renowned violinist/violist Marco Fusi
St Paul’s Hall, Huddersfield, Friday 27th March, 7:30pm
FREE ENTRY

(Photo by Alex Matthews for The Qualcomm Institute)

The program features works for solo viola and solo viola d’amore by CeReNeM composers including a work by CeReNeM Alumni Timothy McCormack heard for the first time in Huddersfield.

Programme:

Flo Christman: New Work (2026) - for viola d’amore and electronics (World Premiere)

Paul Dunkerley - The Reflection is Wrong (2026) - for solo viola (World Premiere)

Timothy McCormack - …, stretched across its axes - for solo viola (2025)

This concert stretches the instrumental affordances of a string instrument across time and space, opening up to electrified resonances, fractured time and memories, and physical touch and pressure. Through very different time spans, each piece build its own world, made of sounds in dialogue, bodies, and perceptions. A single performer on stage is the common ground, the guide through these sonic landscapes.

28/11/2025

HCR: Out now, DecibelNewMusic's 'Tuned Darker'. Stuart James’ n dimension refers to the ‘dark’ quantity of higher abstractions of space beyond three-dimensions, evoking this through slow drumming and phasing effects between polyrhythmic pulses, spatialised mixing, and discordant sustained tones. The end result is the evocation of unique sonic shapes that play out fluidly and non-linearly to hypnotic effect. Hear James talk about his work in this interview with ensemble leader Cat Hope.

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On the release of the new 10 year anniversary edition of Tuned Darker, this interview between artistic director Cat Hope and composer Stuart James focuses on...

27/11/2025

HCR: Out now, DecibelNewMusic's 'Tuned Darker'. Cat Hope’s The Lowest Drawer, crafts a sonic shadow play, with each instrument descending into a space of acoustic resonance, interwoven with electronic tones. Weighty low frequencies are not simply heard but felt, experienced as pressure, mass, and a darkening of the auditory field, shaping a slow yet graceful unfolding. Hear Hope speak on this work in this interview with ensemble member Lindsay Vickery.

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Founding member of Decibel new music ensemble Lindsay Vickery interviews artistic director, composer and fellow Decibel member Cat Hope about her piece 'The ...

26/11/2025

HCR: Out now, DecibelNewMusic 'Tuned Darker'. Lindsay Vickery’s expansive song cycle Night Fragments draws on the surrealist technique of ‘sleep-writing’, pairing impressionistic verse, sung by guest vocalist Caitlin Cassidy, with counter-melodic and counter-rhythmic musical choices that drive the fractured dream narrative, playing with the absurd and banal through displacement and estrangement of the familiar. Hear Vickery speak on this work in this interview with ensemble leader Cat Hope.

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Founding member of Decibel new music ensemble Lindsay Vickery interviews artistic director, composer and fellow Decibel member Cat Hope about her piece 'The ...

24/11/2025

HCR: Available now, DecibelNewMusic's third LP 'Tuned Darker' – Originally released in 2015 on the now defunct Listen|Hear label, HCR is proud to release a remastered and expanded version of this groundbreaking release. 'Tuned Darker' presents the group’s creative vision at its most cohesive: collecting works composed by ensemble members that explore changing shades of mood, tone, and aesthetics that evoke a sense of darkness, while showcasing Decibel’s unique blend of classical music experimentation with noise, sound art, and song-like sensibilities. OUT NOW

Release Date: 21 November 2025 “The light has changed; middle C is tuned darker now” This line, taken from Louise Glück’s poem October (2004), is the guiding concept for Australian new music ensemble Decibel’s third LP, Tuned Darker, originally released in 2015. The album presents the group...

15/09/2025

HCR: New Release – Glass Feathers: Following on from the success of 2018’s Beyond Pythagoras, HCR is thrilled to announce the release of Glass Feathers. Paulina Sundin, Monty Adkins, Jens Hedman, and Ylva Q Arkvik have crafted works of intricate and varied beauty, drawing on virtuosic performances by the Stockholm Saxophone Quartet’s alto saxophonist Jörgen Pettersson and renowned percussionist Jonny Axelsson to create an album that expertly blends the acoustic with the electronic. Available now from NMC Recordings and Huddersfield Contemporary Records!

Release Date: 12 September 2025 Following on from the success of 2018’s Beyond Pythagoras, HCR is thrilled to announce the release of Glass Feathers. Paulina Sundin, Monty Adkins, Jens Hedman, and Ylva Q Arkvik have crafted works of intricate and varied beauty, drawing on virtuosic performances by...

21/06/2025

TOMORROW - FREE CONCERT: lovemusic, 2025 winners of the Ernst von Siemens Ensemble Prize perform new works by CeReNeM composers Sophie Cooper, Ben Ellin, Graham Young, Geoff Cox, + Sam Gillies, St Paul's Hall, University of Huddersfield, 12pm Sunday 22nd June. FREE ENTRY