Elaine Hugh-Jones is a Welsh

Welsh people

The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

 pianist, music educator and composer. She was born in London

London

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 and studied piano with Harold Craxton

Harold Craxton

Thomas Harold Hunt Craxton, OBE was an English pianist and composer.Craxton studied piano at the Tobias Matthay Pianoforte School and made a name for himself early in his career as an accompanist with performers such as Dame Nellie Melba, Dame Clara Butt, Lionel Tertis and John McCormack.In 1919...

, Julian Isserlis and with Lennox Berkeley

Lennox Berkeley

Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley was an English composer.- Biography :He was born in Oxford, England, and educated at the Dragon School, Gresham's School and Merton College, Oxford...

. After completing her studies, she took a position as an accompanist with the BBC

BBC

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where she worked for 37 years. She also taught music at the Malvern Colleges.

Works

Selected works include:

• A back view (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• Bicker's Cottage (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• Echo (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
• Ghosts (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
• Night song (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• Silver (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
• The hare (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
• The madman and the child (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• The old woman at the flower show (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• The ride‑by‑nights (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)
• The road to Coursegoules (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• The watch (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• To a young cat in the orchard (in Eight Cornford Songs) (Text: Frances Cornford)
• Winter (in Six de la Mare Songs) (Text: Walter de la Mare)

Hugh-Jones' songs were broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and have been recorded and released on CD, including:

• Poésie et musique au féminin (The Feminine in Poetry and Music) Audio CD (April 9, 2002) Gallo, ASIN: B000063COE
• In Flanders Fields Audio CD (May 9, 2006) Quartz, ASIN: B000E1P33Y

She has also been featured in British Music: Some Views of Richard Arnell; Bantock & Newman; Holst, Purcell & Morley College; Elaine Hugh - Jones; Tobias Matthay; Music in Birmingham: v. 29 by Paul Jackson and Roger Carpenter (Paperback - Oct 31, 2007) British Music Society, ISBN 978-1-870536-29-5