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This is
the personal website of composer Bernard Hughes, containing information
about his work, music excerpts to listen to and links to related
websites.
Bernard’s music has been performed by several leading performers and ensembles including the BBC Singers and has been heard at venues including Coventry Cathedral and London’s South Bank Centre. His children’s opera Chincha-Chancha Cooroo was premiered to acclaim in 2006 and the American premiere will take place in the spring of 2009, and an Indian production is planned for 2010.
Bernard Hughes’ music has been broadcast on Radio 3, and he appeared as a conductor on the recent Channel 4 series Howard Goodall’s Twentieth Century Greats. He writes regularly in the new music periodical Tempo, including a major article on the music of Param Vir.
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Bernard Hughes’ choral setting of the Norse myth of The Death of Balder will receive its concert premiere by the BBC Singers on Friday 3 July 2009 at St Giles, Cripplegate as part of the City of London Festival.
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The first international production of Chincha-Chancha Cooroo was performed to acclaim by North Cambridge Opera in Cambridge, Massachusetts in April 2009.
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Music by Bernard Hughes appears on the CD ‘60x60’, launched by the Vox Novus label in New York. The CD is available to order online.
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Bernard has recently been awarded a PhD in Composition from London University.
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