As composer-in-residence at the 41st edition of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival – or hcmf// for short – Christian Marclay will premiere a new piece for 20 pianos titled Investigations. HIs residency is highlighted by an exhibition of graphic scores, plus performances of his existing scores by past collaborators including Thurston Moore, Shelley Hirsch and John Butcher.

Other premieres include The Arditti Quartet performing James Dillon’s ninth string quartet and a new work for piano by Christopher Fox. The programme also features new versions of classic works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Julius Eastman; Jennifer Walshe’s A History of the Voice – Self Care II; Marco Blaauw’s The Monochrome Project; Anthony Braxton, Enno Poppe, Bozzini Quartet performing Eliane Radigue’s Occam Delta XV; three recent pieces by Rebecca Saunders, including the entirety of her 75 minute work Yes, performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik and soprano Juliet Fraser; and the UK premiere of Hilda Paredes’s chamber opera Harriet. Produced by Belgium’s Musiektheater Transparant in association with The Hermes Ensemble, Harriet is about the African-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman’s struggles against slavery.

Finally, the festival’s twin themes of space and spirituality will connect works by Stockhausen, Terry Riley and Supriya Nagarajan.

For a full overview of events, visit hcmf//’s website.