New compositions for Huddersfield

Next month, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival celebrates 25 years of bringing cutting-edge classical music to Britain's shores. Artistic Director Susanna Eastburn, who will be presenting her first full programme after taking the reigns from her predecessor (and festival founder), Richart Steinitz, speaks to Michelle Draper.
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When Susanna Eastburn left her job with music publisher Chester Novello after eight years, to move to Huddersfield, she wondered if she would ever get the chance to work again with the composers she met through the company and in her travels abroad.

Although Eastburn moved to the northern town jobless, life fell into place in that uncanny way it does, and she soon found herself drawing on years of knowledge and contacts, after landing the job of Artistic Director of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music festival in April 2001.

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Michelle Draper
About the Author
Michelle lived and worked in Rome and London as a freelance feature writer for two and a half years before returning to Australia to take up the position of Head Writer for Arts Hub UK. She was inspired by thousands of years of history and art in Rome, and by London's pubs. Michelle holds a BA in Journalism from RMIT University, and also writes for Arts Hub Australia.