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Bernard Clements Barrell (1919-2005) was an English musician, music educator and composer. He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, England and studied at Trinity College of Music, London. He served in World War II and returned to England, where he took various teaching appointments in Hollesley Bay Borstal, Ipswich schools, the Suffolk Rural Music School and the Workers’ Educational Association. He served as conductor of the Woodbridge Orchestra and as an adjudicator for the British Federation of Musical Festivals. He married composer Joyce Howard Gedye.[1][2]

Works

Selected works include:

  • From the Waveney Valley Op.129, symphonic movement, 1993
  • East Anglian Holiday Overture
  • Suffolk Celebration
  • A Norfolk Sketchbook (7 piano pieces)
  • A Suffolk Notebook (7 piano pieces)
  • Dunwich Op.92 for choir and orchestra to a poem by Victor Allen *Southwold Railway Centenary Pieces Op.88, 1979.
  • Symphony for Strings Op.62

References

  1. ^ "Bernard and Joyce Barrell papers". Retrieved 21 December 2010.
  2. ^ Kay, Ernest (1985). International who's who in music and musicians' directory: Volume 10.