Robert Hugill

Robert Hugill is a London based composer, journalist, blogger and lecturer. Robert runs the highly regarded classical music blog, Planet Hugill Robert’s setting of the Advent Prose was premiered by Alistair Dixon and Chapelle du Roi in December 2014, and they premiered Robert’s setting of Ruth Padel’s Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth in 2015. Robert's cantata The Testament of Dr. Cranmer was issued on the Divine Art label. His opera When a man knows was performed in 2011 at the Bridewell Theatre, London. Robert has recently completed Tempus per Annum, a cycle of 70 motets for the church’s year with over 45 hours of music. His songs were placed in the English Poetry and Song Society’s A E Housman and the Ivor Gurney competitions. As a lecturer Robert has recently completed a five-lecture Introduction to Opera series for The Course, and will be returning to the Conway Hall for further pre-concert talks.