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David Hindley (1933-2018)
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Composer, Ornithomusicologist,
former Head of Music
Homerton College, Cambridge (1963-1985)
www.davidhindley.org
https://youtube.com/@davidhindley2784

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David Hindley (1933-2018) @wrotebirdsong.bsky.social · Sep 30
BCMG “Bird Fanfares” concert videos are out now 🎶🐦🦤 whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmgs-hindle... @composersed.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social @ballioloxford.bsky.social
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BCMG’s Hindley Concert Videos - What's New
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s concert of David Hindley works is now available to watch on YouTube.
whatsnew.composersedition.com
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the experience of witnessing dementia break down a close relative & witnessing ecosystem breakdown… environmental generational amnesia @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social @dementiauk.bsky.social
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October 15, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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What are we talking about when we talk about extinction? 🐦 @bcmg.bsky.social @phillauri.bsky.social #birder @quaker.org.uk
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October 13, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Jo Hindley introduces her Dad’s music at BCMG #BirdFanfares concert 15/6/25
Rolf Hind performs TRANSCRIPTION (Skylark) #skylark 🎶🐦by David Hindley
youtu.be/3Bas7Vu1Zlk?...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Rolf Hind, pianist and composer, speaks about birdsong, Olivier Messiaen and David Hindley at BCMG “Bird Fanfares” Pre Concert Talk youtube.com/@davidhindle... @composersed.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social #birdsong #messiaen #davidhindleycomposer 🎶🐦
September 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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BCMG “Bird Fanfares” concert videos are out now 🎶🐦🦤 whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmgs-hindle... @composersed.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @homertoncollege.bsky.social @ballioloxford.bsky.social
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BCMG’s Hindley Concert Videos - What's New
Birmingham Contemporary Music Group’s concert of David Hindley works is now available to watch on YouTube.
whatsnew.composersedition.com
September 30, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Human connection to nature has declined 60% in 200 years, study finds
Prof Miles Richardson says people risk ‘extinction of experience’ in the natural world without new policies
www.theguardian.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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Read Jo Hindley’s, daughter of David Hindley, guest post reflecting on BCMG’s June concert of the composer’s
work and the importance of birdsong to his practice
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July 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Reflecting on BCMG’s Bird-Fanfares concert whatsnew.composersedition.com/hindleys-bir... @composersed.bsky.social photos at Knepp @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @dilfhorn.bsky.social @kneppwilding.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social
June 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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🙏🏻 to ALL who supported #BirdsFanfares 🎶 📣🐦 #newmusic www.davidhindley.org inspired by birdsong #CornBunting #Nightingale #Woodlark #Dodo #Skylark @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdlifeglobal.bsky.social @kneppwilding.bsky.social
June 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group perform their ‘Bird Fanfares’ concert this Sunday at the CBSO Centre, featuring works by David Hindley.

R. Isaac Boulter, conductor
Rolf Hind, soloist
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June 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Don’t miss this opportunity to hear public premiere performance of David Hindley’s birdsong works for piano solo: woodlark, nightingale, skylark www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f...
Bird Fanfares - 15/06/2025 16:30:00
David Hindley (1933-2018) - “a man who writes birdsong” - transcribed into musical manuscript the songs of birds, allowing these avian melodies to be perceived and appreciated by human ears in new way...
www.bcmg.org.uk
June 11, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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And this is how extinctions too often happen, if we let them. Incrementally, cumulatively via isolated ‘development’ projects which on their own seem innocuous. Strategic landscape environmental assessment is essential: far better than project-specific EIAs.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘All the birdsong in the world in one sound’: England’s nightingale haven at risk from planning bill
Conservationists warn that losing Lodge Hill in Kent to housing could be a catastrophe for one of Britain’s most at-risk birds
www.theguardian.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Read about the BCMG concert featuring David Hindley’s music coming up Sunday 15th June whatsnew.composersedition.com/bcmg-david-h... @composersed.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social
BCMG David Hindley Concert | Composers Edition News | open . new . music
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June 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🎶📣🐦 www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f...
May 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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#DavidHindleymusic expansive avian landscape piano pieces, brass sextet corn bunting fanfare, electronic recreation of the dodo’s call from the beyond of extinction 🦤 www.bcmg.org.uk/Event/bird-f... @dilfhorn.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social
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Bird Fanfares - 15/06/2025 16:30:00
David Hindley (1933-2018) - “a man who writes birdsong” - transcribed into musical manuscript the songs of birds, allowing these avian melodies to be perceived and appreciated by human ears in new way...
www.bcmg.org.uk
April 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Premiere performance of FANFARE: Corn Bunting (1994) by DGH yesterday at BCMG’s Cherry Blossom 🌸 Concert Oozells Square youtube.com/shorts/ibtBC... 🎶🎺🐦 @bcmg.bsky.social @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @composersed.bsky.social @btobirds.bsky.social @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social #davidhindley #birdsong
March 24, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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The cherry blossom is out 🌸 in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace (in front of Ikon gallery) ahead of BCMG’s FREE Cherry Blossom concert coming up this Sunday 23rd March 3pm www.bcmg.org.uk/event/cherry... @royalbirmcons.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @ikongallery.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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The BCMG FREE concert 3pm is part of an array of spring blossom events 🌸 in Oozells Square, Brindleyplace on Sunday 23rd March www.brindleyplace.com/event/cherry... @ikongallery.bsky.social @bcmg.bsky.social @nationaltrust.bsky.social
Cherry Blossom Day - Brindleyplace, Birmingham
We’ve got lots of fun activities for all the family to enjoy and a nature-inspired concert to finish the celebrations off – all with the amazing backdrop of Brindley’s beautiful blossoms! 12 noon unti...
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March 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Birmingham Contemporary Music Group will perform David Hindley’s ‘Fanfare: Miliaria calandra 21.7.63’ at the Cherry Blossom open air event in Birmingham this Sunday!
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March 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Cambs wildlife sound recording society gifted this picture of David taken in the 90s. Victor C Lewis’ birdsong recordings became David’s source for transcription, analysis and composition. Fanfare to be premiered a week today is based on Lewis’ recording of a corn bunting 🎶 in Wiltshire on 21.7.63
March 16, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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“The more we know about it
The more we appreciate it
The less likely we’re going to let it disappear”. Catch up with “Birdsong” on iplayer
@seanronayne.bsky.social 🙏🏼 sharing your sense of wonder and loss, helping people appreciate other species and how human actions have impact.
#birdsongkin
seanronayne.bsky.social Seán Ronayne @seanronayne.bsky.social · Mar 12
UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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seanronayne.bsky.social
UK friends! Tonight Birdsong makes its UK TV debut on BBC4 at 9pm. It will also be available on BBC Player thereafter. Please spread the word! Extract taken from The Times.
March 12, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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We’ve got not one but two Bird Camps in England this year! 😀 Discover more and apply ➡️ www.bto.org/bird-camp

These residential weekends for secondary school students under 18 are completely FREE and full of bird and nature adventures! 🐦🦋🌿
Image of a young person sitting in a meadow with a notebook alongside the wording: Bird Camps England 2025. Lancashire, 2 - 4 May. New Forest, 25 - 27 July. For secondary school students under 18. Totally free of charge. Apply today! bto.org/bird-camp. BTO Youth logo sits top right of the image.
March 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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🚜 On 11 March, the Government announced a pause in nature-friendly farming payments—the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI).

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

👇 Here's why that’s disastrous for climate and nature. 🧵
Government under fire over abrupt closure of key nature-friendly farming scheme
Ministers said the budget for the sustainable farming incentive had been spent.
www.independent.co.uk
March 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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bardseyben.bsky.social
Crank up the volume and lap up those joyous sounds of early spring. A little film from Pen Llŷn last week with some of my favourite sound recordings, including the pure dusk chorus of Blackbird and explosive dawn greeting of Song Thrush. Mwynhau, enjoy 🎧🎶
#PlantPotParabolic

youtu.be/k_Enr8CspkE?...
Dusk and Dawn: celebrating the return of spring birdsong
YouTube video by Ben Porter
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March 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM