Judith Bailey was born in Cornwall and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, specialising in clarinet, piano, conducting and composition. Since 1971 she has worked freelance, conducting Petersfield Orchestra and Southampton Concert Orchestra for around thirty years, and producing a substantial amount of music which is widely performed and published.
In 2001 she returned to live and work in her native Cornwall where she is conductor of Penzance Orchestra Society and Cornwall Chamber Orchestra, and in the same year was awarded the honour of an ARAM from the Royal Academy.
In 2005 she was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to music in Cornwall.
Judith Bailey's Divertimento is a lively and rhythmically charged one movement piece, lasting around five minutes, which explores the middle register of the double bass…
Judith Bailey’s Divertimento is a lively and rhythmically charged one movement piece, lasting around five minutes, which explores the middle register of the double bass in music of character, colour and great charm.
Written in a modern but instantly accessible and enjoyable idiom, this is a great addition to the duet repertoire and is published with piano accompaniments for both solo and orchestral tunings.
Divertimento was composed in 2023 and was commissioned jointly by David Heyes and Susan Hagen. It is also published with string orchestra accompaniment, in both solo and orchestral tuning.
