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Judith Margaret Bailey (born 18 July 1941) is an
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clarinettist, composer and conductor. She was born in Camborne,
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, and studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1959–63, and. Since 1971 she has been working as a composer and conductor. She conducted the Southampton Concert Orchestra and Petersfield Orchestra for almost 30 years before returning to her native Cornwall around 2001 where she has been conducting for the Cornwall Chamber Orchestra and the Penzance Orchestral Society. She is a Cornish composer; in 2001 she was honoured as an "Associate of the Royal Academy of Music" for showing distinction amongst her peers and in 2005 as a Bard of the
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for her contributions to music in Cornwall. She is a member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, the Cornish Music Guild, as well as a Trustee for the Cornwall Music Service Trust.


Selected works

*''Trencrom'', symphonic poem, 1978 *''Symphony'', 1981 *''Symphony'', 1982 *''Seascape'', for women's chorus, woodwind trio and orchestra, 1985 *''Penwith'', overture, 1986 *''Fiesta'' for orchestra, 1988 *''Concerto'' for clarinet and strings, 1988 *''Havas'' for orchestra, 1991 *''Joplinesque'' for wind band *''Festive Concert Piece'' for wind band *''A widow bird'' (in Three Settings of Poems by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) *''Music'' (in Three Settings of Poems by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley) *''Neap-Tide'' (Text: Algernon Charles Swinburne) *''To the moon'' (in Three Settings of Poems by Shelley) (Text: Percy Bysshe Shelley)Composer: Judith Margaret Bailey
''www.lieder.net'', accessed 15 December 2020


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bailey, Judith 1941 births Living people 20th-century classical composers British women classical composers English classical composers People from Camborne 20th-century English composers 20th-century English women musicians Musicians from Cornwall 20th-century women composers