Trevor Hughes is a Graduate of the Royal College of Music, winning the Colles Prize, and an Associate of the Royal College of Organists, winning the Doris Wookey prize. He has accompanied recitals in the Purcell Room, the Wigmore Hall, and on BBC Radio 3, as well as in many music clubs over the country, and his freelance work as both accompanist and choral conductor has taken him three times to the USA as well as on numerous trips to Europe, including Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, and Holland.
In addition to teaching piano, organ, keyboards and theory, he has conducted many musicals in the theatre. From 1985-90 he was Musical Director of the Stevenage Lytton Players, and since 1988 has been the Musical Director of the Stevenage Choral Society. Having directed the Society in concert tours to Austria and Germany, he took it on its first tour of the USA over Easter 1996, giving concerts in Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In January 1995 he became Musical Director of the London-based female choir Jubilate!, and since Easter 1995 he has been Organist and Choirmaster at Holy Saviour Church in Hitchin. In September 1995 he also became Conductor of the Stevenage Youth Orchestra.
Since 1985 he has regularly played keyboards, and been musical director and arranger, for BBC Schools Music programmes. He has also played in a number of West End shows, and in 1994, as an Adjudicator-Member of the British Federation of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech, he spent three weeks adjudicating at the Hong Kong Schools’ Music Festival, an event which embraces some 70,000 participants!
November 1996