Andrew Hugill
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Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, performer, writer
Writer
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, professor and researcher.
Biography
Andrew Hugill studied composition with Roger Marsh at the University of Keele between 1976 and 1980, and in 1983 he founded the ensemble "George W. Welch". He began lecturing at Leicester Polytechnic in 1986, working alongside Gavin BryarsGavin Bryars
Richard Gavin Bryars is an English composer and double bassist. He has been active in, or has produced works in, a variety of styles of music, including jazz, free improvisation, minimalism, historicism, experimental music, avant-garde and neoclassicism.-Early life and career:Born in Goole, East...
and Dave Smith
Dave Smith
-In sports:*Dave Smith , Scottish football goalkeeper*Dave Smith , Scottish football fullback for clubs including Burnley, managed several clubs in the 1970s/1980s...
, eventually becoming subject-leader for the BA Performing Arts: Music. He founded the Music, Technology and Innovation programme in 1997 at De Montfort University
De Montfort University
De Montfort University is a public research and teaching university situated in the medieval Old Town of Leicester, England, adjacent to the River Soar and the Leicester Castle Gardens...
and taught Creative and Negotiated Projects, Musicianship and Internet Music.
he serves as Director of the Institute of Creative Technologies at De Montfort University in Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
, UK. He is also an Associate Researcher at the Universite de la Sorbonne, Paris and a National Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2006 he was Highly Commended for the Most Imaginative Use of Distance Learning by the Times Higher Education Awards.
Compositions
Hugill's compositions include music for solo instruments and ensembles, orchestral music and electronic and digital music.In 2004, Hugill was nominated for the BT Digital Music Awards for his internet project with the Philharmonia Orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
The Philharmonia Orchestra is one of the leading orchestras in Great Britain, based in London. Since 1995, it has been based in the Royal Festival Hall. In Britain it is also the resident orchestra at De Montfort Hall, Leicester and the Corn Exchange, Bedford, as well as The Anvil, Basingstoke...
– The Sound Exchange.
Some of his well-known works are: Pianolith (2003); the internet music project Symphony for Cornwall (1999); the electroacoustic composition Island Symphony (1995), an electroacoustic and subsequently orchestral work, inspired by St. Georges's Island; Brisset Rhymes (1990) and Catalogue de Grenouilles (1988) for massed frog recordings and human musicians.
Nocturne, for two pianos and percussion, was commissioned by BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3
BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
in 1997. His Sonneries Parfumees for piano solo won a prize in the Piano 2000 competition in Tokyo. Simon and Ennoia (1987) for small ensemble, was broadcast by the BBC
BBC
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in 1990.
Research
Hugill's current research includes a large-scale digital mapping project that comprises a range of human factors as well as navigable imaging, and the development of a digital sensory room for hospiceHospice
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s.
In 2008 Hugill published 'The Digital Musician' in which he identifies the possibilities and challenges new technologies offer the modern musician.