Well known conductor and player David Hirst was delighted to return to his home town in Yorkshire recently to appear as composer and performer at the 2014 Holmfirth Film Festival.

Sound tracks

The high profile week-long event featured a variety of film and media themes, with David working alongside a number of celebrated musicians and composers to bring to life new sound tracks for a series of short film productions surrounding the forthcoming Tour de France, which will pass through the famous Holmfirth village next month.

I was honoured to be invited to the festival and to work on such an interesting project, with the added pleasure of being involved as a performer as well as composerDavid Hirst

Pleasure

David told 4BR: "I was honoured to be invited to the festival and to work on such an interesting project, with the added pleasure of being involved as a performer as well as composer."

David worked alongside internationally renowned composer Barry Russell, Julio d’Escrivan and Phil Maguire from the University of Huddersfield’s Sound Music Image Research Centre.