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Robert Hugill (born 1955) is a British composer, journalist, lecturer and blogger. He runs classical music blog "Planet Hugill". [1]
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Robert Hugill (born 1955) is a British composer, journalist, lecturer and blogger. He runs classical music blog "Planet Hugill". [1]
The Genesis of Frankenstein (setting a libretto by the composer based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) was premiered by the Helios Collective at the CLF Art Cafe, Peckham on 28 October 2015, directed by Ella Marchment, choreography by Sarah-Louise Kristiansen, musical director Noah Mosley. [2]
When a Man Knows (setting a libretto by the composer based on Alan Richardson's play of the same name) was premiered at the Bridewell Theatre, London on 31 March 2011 [3] The production was directed by Ian Caddy and musical director was David Roblou, Dario Dugandzic was the Man and Zoe South the woman.
Three pieces from the Book of Common Prayer for viola and piano was premiered by Rosalind Ventris (viola) and James Willshire (piano) at Cheltenham Cheltenham Contemporary Concerts in Dean Close School, Cheltenham on 11 Feb 2018. [4]
The motet Dominus Illuminatio mea was premiered on 8 December 2016 at Priory Church of the Order of St John, St John's Square, Clerkenwell Road, London, EC1V 4JJ, by London Concord Singers, conductor Jessica Norton as part of the choir's 50th-anniversary concert. [5]
The cycle of 70 motets for the church's year, Tempus per Annum, is available for free download from www.cpdl.org
The pair of cantatas Out of the Shadows and Et expecto resurrectionem were premiered on 3 February 2023 at Hyde Street Methodist Church in London [6]
Chapelle du roi, conductor Alistair Dixon, premiered the motet Videte Miraculum at St John's Smith Square on 19 December 2009. [7]
The disc Quickening: Songs by Robert Hugill to English and Welsh poets, released in September 2017 on the Navona Records label features Robert Hugill's settings of poems by Rowan Williams, Ivor Gurney, A. E. Housman and Christina Rossetti performed by Anna Huntley (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Herford (baritone), Rosalind Ventris (viola) and Will Vann (piano). [8] In reviewing the disc for Music-Web International Rob Barnet referred to Hugill's 'candid gift for gracious melody' [9]
Robert Hugill's songs also feature on the disc Sappho, Shropshire and Supertramp, released in January 2018 on the Divine Art label. [10] The disc features songs by English composers associated with the English Poetry and Song Society performed by Sarah Leonard (singer) (mezzo-soprano), Johnny Herford (baritone) and Nigel Foster (piano). Robert Hugill's songs on the disc include settings of Hart Crane and Rabindranath Tagore.
Robert Hugill's motet, Populos Sion features on Harmonia Sacra and conductor Peter Leech's disc Lux Memoriaque on the Nimbus Alliance label. [11]
Max Bruch was a German Romantic composer, violinist, teacher, and conductor who wrote more than 200 works, including three violin concertos, the first of which has become a staple of the violin repertoire.
William Elden Bolcom is an American composer and pianist. He has received the Pulitzer Prize, the National Medal of Arts, a Grammy Award, the Detroit Music Award and was named 2007 Composer of the Year by Musical America. He taught composition at the University of Michigan from 1973 until 2008. He is married to mezzo-soprano Joan Morris.
John Harris Harbison is an American composer, known for his symphonies, operas, and large choral works.
Wilfrid Howard Mellers was an English music critic, musicologist and composer.
Sir James Loy MacMillan, is a Catholic Scottish classical composer and conductor.
Robert Saxton is a British composer.
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Dame Judith Weir is a British composer serving as Master of the King's Music. Appointed in 2014 by Queen Elizabeth II, Weir is the first woman to hold this office.
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David Earl is a South African composer and pianist. He was educated at Rondebosch Boys' High School. He made his professional debut at the age of sixteen when he broadcast Bach, Chopin and Chabrier on the SABC. In 1968, he performed Felix Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No 1 with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra. In 1971, he moved to London where he studied at Trinity College of Music. He studied under Jacob Kaletsky and Richard Arnell. After a live début broadcast recital on BBC Radio 3 in 1974, his first recital at Wigmore Hall was reported as "stylish and powerful" by The Times. In 1975, he was selected as one of the Young Musicians of the Year by the Greater London Arts Association. He also won first prize in the 1976 SABC Piano Competition. He was described by The Daily Telegraph as having "remarkable gifts of style, technical mastery and artistry". He made his début as a composer in the 1977 when he premiered his own Piano Suite No 1 Mosaics at Wigmore Hall. His concerto repertoire includes the Viennese classics, many from the nineteenth century, and amongst those from the 20th, the piano concertos of Arthur Bliss and John Joubert, both of which he studied with the composers. Conductors he has appeared with include Hugo Rignold, Maurice Handford, Piero Gamba and Christian Badea.
Kenneth Allen Woods is an American conductor, composer and cellist, resident in the UK.
Huw Thomas Watkins is a British composer and pianist. Born in South Wales, he studied piano and composition at Chetham's School of Music in Manchester, where he received piano lessons from Peter Lawson. He then went on to read music at King's College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Alexander Goehr, and completed an MMus in composition at the Royal College of Music, where he studied with Julian Anderson. Huw Watkins was awarded the Constant and Kit Lambert Junior Fellowship at the Royal College of Music, where he used to teach composition. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music.
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Andrew March is an English composer. He was the winner of the first-ever Masterprize Composition Competition with his piece Marine — à travers les arbres. Andrew studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Jeremy Dale Roberts, graduating in 1996.
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