Judith Bingham entered the Royal Academy of Music in 1970 to study composition and singing, winning the Principal’s Prize in 1971. After graduating, she continued her studies with Hans Keller and composed her first commission for the Finchley Children’s Music Group. Named as BBC Young Composer of the Year in 1977, a plethora of awards, appointments and performances soon followed: Salt in the Blood, premiered at the Proms in 1995; the Barlow Prize for A Capella (2004); British Composers Awards for Christmas Truce (2004), Missa Brevis (2004), My Heart Strangely Warm’d (2006) and Fantasia (2008); Fellow of the Royal Northern College of Music (2005); Fellow of the Royal School of Church Music (2007); an oboe concerto The Angel of Mons (2014). Judith’s contribution to music was recognised with an Order of the British Empire in 2020.
