Judith Bailey: Biography
Judith Bailey
ARAM, B.Mus (Lond) GRSM, LRAM, ARCM
Judith Bailey was
born in Camborne, Cornwall in 1941. She studied conducting with Maurice
Miles, composition with Andrew Byrne, clarinet with Stephen
Waters and piano with Leslie England at the Royal Academy of
Music in London. Following a short career as a peripatetic woodwind
teacher in Hampshire, from 1971 she has worked as a freelance composer,
conductor and clarinettist, returning to Cornwall in 2001.
Her compositions
include two symphonies, five string quartets, concertos for clarinet and strings
and double-bass and strings, some choral works and a substantial amount of music for wind.
Judith was conductor of the Southampton
Concert Orchestra and Petersfield Orchestras for around
30 years. She has been the conductor of Cornwall Chamber Orchestra
since September 2002, and was conductor of the Penzance
Orchestral Society from April 2003 until March 2023.
In 2001 Judith was appointed an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music (ARAM), a discretionary award to ex-students for distinguished service to the music profession,
and in 2005 she was made a bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to music in Cornwall.
A more detailed article about the composer's life and work was published in Spirited, the Gazette of the English Music Festival in 2021. This can be read via this link.
Judith passed away on 16 March 2025 after a short illness.
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