Judith Bingham
Born in Nottingham, and raised in Mansfield and Sheffield, Judith Bingham began composing as a small child, and then studied composition and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was awarded the Principal’s prize in 1971, and 6 years later the BBC Young Composer award.
Bingham was a member of the BBC Singers for many years, and between 2004 and 2009 was their ‘Composer in Association’, during which time she wrote a series of choral works. Several of these were for the BBC Singers, but there were also pieces for other professional, amateur and collegiate choirs, including Salt in the Blood, written for the BBC Symphony Chorus to perform at the Proms, a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for King’s College Cambridge, and diverse anthems and church works for several UK cathedrals. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music for distinguished services to church music.
Although Bingham’s output is marked by the number and variety of its choral works, the scope of her activities has further included pieces for brass band, symphonic wind ensemble and various chamber groups and solo instruments, concertos, and several impressive works for large orchestra. She has written a substantial body of pieces for organ including Jacob’s Ladder, a concerto written for Stephen Cleobury and Philip Brunelle. Her large scale work for solo organ The Everlasting Crown was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011. Her anthem, Ghostly Grace, was composed for the reinterment of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral in 2015.
Born in Nottingham, and raised in Mansfield and Sheffield, Judith Bingham began composing as a small child, and then studied composition and singing at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was awarded the Principal’s prize in 1971, and 6 years later the BBC Young Composer award.
Bingham was a member of the BBC Singers for many years, and between 2004 and 2009 was their ‘Composer in Association’, during which time she wrote a series of choral works. Several of these were for the BBC Singers, but there were also pieces for other professional, amateur and collegiate choirs, including Salt in the Blood, written for the BBC Symphony Chorus to perform at the Proms, a Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for King’s College Cambridge, and diverse anthems and church works for several UK cathedrals. In 2007 she was made a Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music for distinguished services to church music.
Although Bingham’s output is marked by the number and variety of its choral works, the scope of her activities has further included pieces for brass band, symphonic wind ensemble and various chamber groups and solo instruments, concertos, and several impressive works for large orchestra. She has written a substantial body of pieces for organ including Jacob’s Ladder, a concerto written for Stephen Cleobury and Philip Brunelle. Her large scale work for solo organ The Everlasting Crown was premiered at the BBC Proms in 2011. Her anthem, Ghostly Grace, was composed for the reinterment of Richard III at Leicester Cathedral in 2015.
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