Judith Bingham is a British composer

Composer

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 and mezzo-soprano

Mezzo-soprano

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 singer.

Born in Nottingham in 1952 and educated at High Storrs Grammar School for Girls in Sheffield, she attended the Royal Academy of Music

Royal Academy of Music

The Royal Academy of Music in London, England, is a conservatoire, Britain's oldest degree-granting music school and a constituent college of the University of London since 1999. The Academy was founded by Lord Burghersh in 1822 with the help and ideas of the French harpist and composer Nicolas...

 (1970–73), where her teachers were Malcolm MacDonald

Malcolm MacDonald

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, Eric Fenby

Eric Fenby

Eric William Fenby OBE was an English composer and teacher who is best known for being Frederick Delius's amanuensis from 1928 to 1934. He helped Delius realise a number of works that would not otherwise have been forthcoming....

, Alan Bush

Alan Bush

Alan Dudley Bush was a British composer and pianist. He was a committed socialist, and politics sometimes provided central themes in his music.-Personal life:...

 and John Hall

John Hall

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 (composition), and Jean Austin-Dobson (singing). After leaving, she continued her composition studies privately with Hans Keller

Hans Keller

Hans Keller was an influential Austrian-born British musician and writer who made significant contributions to musicology and music criticism, as well as being an insightful commentator on such disparate fields as psychoanalysis and football...

 (1974–80).

List of works

• Chartres (orchestra
  Orchestra
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  l), 1988
• Beyond Redemption (orchestra
  Orchestra
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  l), 1994–5
• The Temple at Karnak (orchestra
  Orchestra
  An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...
  
  l), 1996
• Passaggio (concerto for bassoon
  Bassoon
  The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers, and occasionally higher. Appearing in its modern form in the 19th century, the bassoon figures prominently in orchestral, concert band and chamber music literature...
  
   and orchestra), 1998
• The Shooting Star (concerto for trumpet
  Trumpet
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  and orchestra), 1999

External links

• MusicWeb page about Bingham