A NEW season of music is getting underway at Huddersfield University with more than 60 events planned between now and next spring.

There will be plenty of chances for the university’s own students to perform, either as soloists or in any one of a whole raft of ensembles on offer.

The university has also brought in a wide range of visiting performers whose musical skills will seek to challenge and inspire the next generation of young music-makers.

Those skills and those of the students mean plenty of opportunities for audiences to hear some super musical talents perform.

This year also sees the deepening of the partnership between the university and the Sheffield-based Ensemble 360.

This eleven strong ensemble of world class musicians has visited Huddersfield before but now strengthen those connections by becoming the university’s ensemble-in-residence.

It is a move that has been welcomed warmly by the university and the ensemble and should guarantee some exciting times ahead for students and for audiences.

Elsewhere in the programme there is much to enjoy whether your musical interests lie in classical or contemporary music, in pop or electronic sounds.

All of those and more will be on offer throughout the winter and on until early summer at either of the university’s major music spaces, St Paul’s Hall or the Phipps Hall in the Creative Arts Building.

Next week, Peter Martin will transport audiences at St Paul’s back to the 16th century with a programme of music played on the lute.

His programme will draw on the most important collection of English lute music, housed in Cambridge University Library. This is a lunchtime recital at 1.15pm.

That same evening in the Phipps Hall, Philip Thomas will play the first in a series of three concerts this year which will feature the piano works of Morton Feldman.

On October 11, join Charlie Russell and Brad Spence, again in the Phipps Hall to hear how they went from being students to successful producers.

Charlie has worked with George Michael, Kylie Minogue, Madonna and Will Young while Brad has worked with Coldplay, Radiohead and the Stereophonics.

They will play some of the recordings they were involved in and discuss how they were made. It’s a free event at 6.15pm and one for all budding recording moguls.

And for an example of the range of music on offer in this new season, look no further than the concert by university organist Graham Cummings and violinist Duncan Druce.

Together they will take a musical journey through the Baroque courts and cities of Italy, Austria and south and north Germany.

Masterclasses feature with performers such as singer songwriter Sally Doherty, musicians Mike Heaton and Steve Firth from the band Embrace, jazz trumpeter Steve Waterman and guitarist Seth Josel.

For full details of the season, pick up a leaflet or check online: www.hud.ac.uk/music-concerts