Alun Hoddinott
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Alun Hoddinott (born 1929) is a Welsh composer.
Hoddinott was educated at University College, Cardiff, and studied with Arthur Benjamin. His first major composition, the Clarinet Concerto, was performed at the Cheltenham Festival of 1954 by Gervase de Peyer and Sir John Barbirolli. This brought Hoddinott a national profile which was followed by a string of commissions by leading orchestras and soloists. These commissions have continued to the present day and he has been championed by some of the most distinguished singers and instrumentalists of the 20th Century. These include singers including Dame Margaret Price, Dame Gwynneth Jones, Sir Thomas Allen, Jill Gomez, Sir Geraint Evans and more recently Jeremy Huw Williams. Instrumentalists have included Ruggiero Ricci, Rostropovich, Dennis Brain, Osian Ellis, John Ogden to name a few, and more recently Euphonium player David Childs and song pianist Andrew Matthews-Owen.
It is symphonic, orchestral and operatic work which has showed Hoddinott's mastery of composition, his style evolving over a long and distinguished career. He has been awarded Honourary Doctorates from numerous leading Musical Institutions including the Royal Academy of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. As well as the Walford Davies Award and the CBE.
In 2005, Hoddinott produced a fanfare to be performed at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Camilla Parker Bowles, having previously written works to celebrate Prince Charles' 16th Birthday and his investiture...
In 1997 Alun Hoddinott received the Glyndwr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival. Also a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts Council of Wales in 1999, Fellowship of the Welsh Music Guild and the presentation of a medal to him by Queen Elizabeth II on the occasion of the official opening of the Wales Millennium Centre
Bibliography
- Michael Kennedy (musicologist) (Editor): The Oxford Dictionary of Music (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994) ISBN 0198691629
- Chambers Biographical Dictionary (Chambers, Edinburgh, 2002) ISBN 0550100512