About.Hazel Hudson now in her 80's still composes music which she typesets herself on her computer. Below is a brief autobiography.
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Hazel Hudson
Miss Hazel Hudson, B.A. (Duneim), B.Muss. (Liverpool), L.R.A.M.(Piano Accompaniment), A.R.C.M. (Piano Teaching), A.R.C.O. (Organ), Dip. Ed. (Dunelm)
In Sept. 1950, I joined St. Mary's College, having been awarded a Durham Colleges Open Engtrance Scholarship in Music. After spending three happy years at Durham, the big disappointment was that I only received a third-class honours degree. So I underwent further training, culminating with a Sabbatical year at Liverpool University, where I was awarded an upper second class B.Mus. in 1967.
My teaching career ended in 1991 with a Senior Lectureship at what at that time was the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education but now is Hope University, Liverpool. Then, until a stroke seriously affected my right side, I was deputy-organist at my local Anglican church, where I am still the choir-mistress.
My publications include a number of arrangements, chiefly quodlibets and mainly for school use, which came out in the 1970's, and some more recent S.A.Men items for church choirs. The Small Choirs website (www.small-choirs.org.uk) features some dozen or so of my works for performers of limited ability. I am a subscriber and occasional contributor to the magazine WorshipLive, previously published by Stainer and Bell, but now produced electronically. Stainer and Bell have also published my Four Hymn-Tune Quodlibets for organ (elementary - intermediate standard), and I have composed/harmonized/arranged more than two hundred hymns written by contributors to WorshipLive.
Hazel Hudson composed the music of "Spirit of Peace" with words by Joan Heybourn, and this won 1st prize of the Second Class of the Small Choirs Composing Competition 2013. It was recorded at the Tenth Anniversary Small Choirs Festival on Saturday 8 February 2014. The video is available below.
In Sept. 1950, I joined St. Mary's College, having been awarded a Durham Colleges Open Engtrance Scholarship in Music. After spending three happy years at Durham, the big disappointment was that I only received a third-class honours degree. So I underwent further training, culminating with a Sabbatical year at Liverpool University, where I was awarded an upper second class B.Mus. in 1967.
My teaching career ended in 1991 with a Senior Lectureship at what at that time was the Liverpool Institute of Higher Education but now is Hope University, Liverpool. Then, until a stroke seriously affected my right side, I was deputy-organist at my local Anglican church, where I am still the choir-mistress.
My publications include a number of arrangements, chiefly quodlibets and mainly for school use, which came out in the 1970's, and some more recent S.A.Men items for church choirs. The Small Choirs website (www.small-choirs.org.uk) features some dozen or so of my works for performers of limited ability. I am a subscriber and occasional contributor to the magazine WorshipLive, previously published by Stainer and Bell, but now produced electronically. Stainer and Bell have also published my Four Hymn-Tune Quodlibets for organ (elementary - intermediate standard), and I have composed/harmonized/arranged more than two hundred hymns written by contributors to WorshipLive.
Hazel Hudson composed the music of "Spirit of Peace" with words by Joan Heybourn, and this won 1st prize of the Second Class of the Small Choirs Composing Competition 2013. It was recorded at the Tenth Anniversary Small Choirs Festival on Saturday 8 February 2014. The video is available below.