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Commissioned for the BBC Proms 2021, premiered by the BBC Singers. A response to Le Chant des Oiseaux by Clement Janequin.

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Bernard Hughes is a composer of exciting and appealing choral music. He has twice been shortlisted for the Ivor Novello Composer Awards, most recently in 2020. Bernard has also a wide catalogue of instrumental music, with notable success for his family pieces for narrator and orchestra. The album Not Now, Bernard and Other Stories, performed by the Orchestra of the Swan and Alexander Armstrong, was released in 2020. Other recent releases include Bagatelles, a recital of Bernard's complete piano music, and the song cycle Metropolis as part of the album Songs for Our Times, both released by Divine Art Records. Bernard Hughes is Composer-in-Residence at St Paul's Girls' School in London, and in that capacity has written numerous works including the anthem L'Imagination, premiered at St Paul's Cathedral, and Ada, a one-act opera commissioned by the school. Bernard's music featured on the Horrible Histories film Bill (2015).

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