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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.

composer based in cologne, germany.
here you'll find mainly solo improvisations or together with other musicians, as well as excerpts of electronic and instrumental compositions.

Soprano Juliet Fraser has a repertoire dominated by the very old and the very new. Specialising in the gnarly edges of contemporary classical music, she is an active commissioner of new music and has worked particularly closely with composers Pascale Criton, Bernhard Lang, Cassandra Miller, Matthew Shlomowitz and Rebecca Saunders. She regularly performs as a guest soloist with ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Musikfabrik, Ensemble Modern, Plus-Minus and Talea, and has created duo projects with percussionist Maxime Echardour, double bassist Florentin Ginot and pianist Mark Knoop. Juliet is founder and artistic director of the eavesdropping festival in London, co-director of all that dust, a new label for new music, and co-founder and a core member of EXAUDI vocal ensemble.

*** This is a collection of B-sides, rarities, various live performances, and some unreleased studio recordings over the last 20+ years — none of this duplicates any of the materials available on YouTube, Vimeo, or the various commercial CD releases. A complete discography is available at http://aaroncassidy.com/category/discography/ *** 

Aaron Cassidy is an American composer and conductor. His work has been programmed by leading international contemporary music specialists including ELISION, Ensemble Musikfabrik, EXAUDI, Ensemble SurPlus, ensemble recherche, Ictus Ensemble, Talea Ensemble, Line Upon Line, and the Kairos, Diotima, and JACK string quartets. His work has been presented at major international festivals and venues including Donaueschingen, Ultraschall, Warsaw Autumn, Huddersfield, Darmstadt, Gaudeamus, Dark Music Days, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Bludenz, Mixtur, Bendigo (BIFEM), Monday Evening Concerts, NYCEMF, June In Buffalo, the ISCM World Music Days, Southbank Centre, Merkin Hall, Miller Theatre, and Sendesaal Bremen, and has been supported through grants and commissions from the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, Südwestrundfunk, the American Music Center, British Council, PRS Foundation, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), New York Foundation for the Arts, Haupstadtkulturfonds Berlin, the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, allerArt Bludenz, RMIT Gallery Sonic Arts Collection, ASCAP, and the London Cultural Olympiad 2012. Recordings of his work are available on 12 commercial CD releases from NEOS, Kairos, NMC, HCR, and New Focus Records.

Also active as a conductor, Cassidy has appeared with Ensemble Musikfabrik, ensemble mosaik, ELISION, Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Proton Bern, Ensemble Interface (then as IEMA), International Contemporary Ensemble, and the Northwestern University Contemporary Music Ensemble. From 2008–13 he served as conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra and New Music Ensemble at the University of Huddersfield. Notable recent appearances as a conductor include performances with Ensemble Musikfabrik in the Großer Saal of the Berlin Philharmonie for Musikfest Berlin; ensemble mosaik in works by Laura Bowler, Sara Glojnarić, and Sergej Newski at MaerzMusik; ELISION and violinist Harry Ward in the Australian premiere of Liza Lim’s Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus at the Melbourne Recital Centre; and as Musical Director for the premiere of Ann Cleare’s opera The Little Lives at the Munich Biennale. He has recorded as a conductor for the Kairos and HCR labels, with two further releases forthcoming on Wergo.

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