Laurence Hughes

Laurence Hughes (born 1952) is a British composer known for his work in choral and vocal music. Hughes' musical style has been described as "the new lyricism", and is generally of a melodic, tonal and modal nature, though not without moments of harmonic and rhythmic tension.

Career

Lawrence Hughes has been composing seriously since the early 1980s. His music achieved some success in the 1980s and early 1990s with performances in many venues in the UK and abroad, and broadcasts on BBC Radio and TV.

Hughes has specialized in recent years in choral and vocal music, and has produced works ranging from small barber-shop arrangements, through varied church and concert works for choir, to large scale pieces for chorus, soloists and orchestra. Examples of such work include "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity" and "Towards the Light", which is a five movement symphony for soloists, chorus, and large orchestra.

Since the mid-1990s, his work has suffered some neglect and is little heard at present, although he continues to produce new work and revise earlier pieces while putting them into computerised form.

External links

* [http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/lah/ Official web site]