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 further productions are planned in India and the USA in 2009.

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.

NEWS

Bernard Hughes’ new opera Dumbfounded! will be premiered at the Tête à Tête Opera Festival on the 8 and 9 of August at the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith, London. Tickets are available from July.

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.