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John Hardy
12+ albums
composerSoundtrackafricaClassicalfilm
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John Hardy is a British composer for live performance and film. His music has been described by listeners as 'heart-warming', 'incredibly moving' and 'brilliant', and by critics as 'gripping and intensely theatrical' (Opera Now), 'engrossing...unique' (Guardian) 'epic' (Daily Telegraph) and 'achingly beautiful' (Composers of Wales). More of John's music is available at www.johnhardymusic.com or at record label www.ffinrecords.co.uk He studied music & composition at Oxford and the Guildhall, and worked with theatre & dance companies including Cardiff Lab and Brith Gof, composing and producing the music for theatre shows, films & TV projects, radio dramas A Clockwork Orange, Under Milk Wood, In Parenthesis, The Sicilian Expedition, Stardust, Sunbathing In The Rain & How I Live Now. Orchestral works include Fever for the Welsh Proms, and Blue Letters From Tanganyika, commissioned by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, who performed it five times and broadcast it several times on BBC Radio 3. A recording of Blue Letters is due to be released after Easter 2009. Choral and vocal music includes De Profundis, commissioned by Westminster Abbey Choir, BBC Singers & London Brass; two chamber operas for Music Theatre Wales; and a community opera about the 1797 French Invasion, commissioned by Welsh National Opera. 2004 saw the premiere, later broadcast on Radio 3, of an R.S.Thomas cycle Not Darkness But Twilight, commissioned, & performed twice, by the BBC National Chorus Of Wales.
