Bernard Hughes
@bernardhughes.bsky.social
Sadly I didn’t win at the Ivors Classical Awards tonight but very delighted to be nominated - and in very good company. Had fun hanging out with my collaborator on Hear My Heart Sing, Helen Eastman
November 11, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Sadly I didn’t win at the Ivors Classical Awards tonight but very delighted to be nominated - and in very good company. Had fun hanging out with my collaborator on Hear My Heart Sing, Helen Eastman
A fun visit to the excellent John le Carré exhibition at the Bodleian library with fellow le Carré nut and old Oxford pal @philtinline.bsky.social. Nostalgia and espionage: the perfect combination
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
A fun visit to the excellent John le Carré exhibition at the Bodleian library with fellow le Carré nut and old Oxford pal @philtinline.bsky.social. Nostalgia and espionage: the perfect combination
Look what’s literally just come through my front door!
October 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Look what’s literally just come through my front door!
Date night with Mrs H. Brazilian dinner in Tooting Market just before she heads off for three weeks in real Brazil
October 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Date night with Mrs H. Brazilian dinner in Tooting Market just before she heads off for three weeks in real Brazil
‘Where do you want this golden trellis, mate?’
Always love a visit to the Courtauld.
Always love a visit to the Courtauld.
October 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
‘Where do you want this golden trellis, mate?’
Always love a visit to the Courtauld.
Always love a visit to the Courtauld.
Happy to be back in York for the ABCD annual convention - having lots of good conversations at my stand
October 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Happy to be back in York for the ABCD annual convention - having lots of good conversations at my stand
Great evening at the Barbican to hear John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London play Vaughan Williams, Britten, Delius (😐), Elgar and - best of all - a scintillating performance of Arthur Bliss’s Music for Strings
October 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Great evening at the Barbican to hear John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London play Vaughan Williams, Britten, Delius (😐), Elgar and - best of all - a scintillating performance of Arthur Bliss’s Music for Strings
I'm really chuffed to have been shortlisted for the Best Choral Composition category of this year's Ivors Classical Awards for Hear My Heart Sing. It's a real honour and the boost I needed as I navigate the depths of Covid. Thanks to the Academy for the nomination!
October 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I'm really chuffed to have been shortlisted for the Best Choral Composition category of this year's Ivors Classical Awards for Hear My Heart Sing. It's a real honour and the boost I needed as I navigate the depths of Covid. Thanks to the Academy for the nomination!
Post you from a different era
Me and the now Mrs H up a glacier in New Zealand on our post-university gap year jaunt
Me and the now Mrs H up a glacier in New Zealand on our post-university gap year jaunt
October 13, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Post you from a different era
Me and the now Mrs H up a glacier in New Zealand on our post-university gap year jaunt
Me and the now Mrs H up a glacier in New Zealand on our post-university gap year jaunt
I like this, and identify strongly with it. I long ago arrived at it as an explanation of why I write music (which I also started doing at about the age of 8): most people stop at some point, I just never stopped
October 7, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I like this, and identify strongly with it. I long ago arrived at it as an explanation of why I write music (which I also started doing at about the age of 8): most people stop at some point, I just never stopped
What more fitting tribute to my late father than a letter in @vizcomic.bsky.social recalling perhaps his most memorable low-level parenting fail? Bless him
September 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
What more fitting tribute to my late father than a letter in @vizcomic.bsky.social recalling perhaps his most memorable low-level parenting fail? Bless him
More of it!? Nooooo.
(And ‘occasionally irritating’?)
(And ‘occasionally irritating’?)
September 16, 2025 at 5:58 AM
More of it!? Nooooo.
(And ‘occasionally irritating’?)
(And ‘occasionally irritating’?)
With the lovely @davidshoukry.bsky.social in front of an amazing sky and the Albert Hall
September 7, 2025 at 9:05 PM
With the lovely @davidshoukry.bsky.social in front of an amazing sky and the Albert Hall
Loved loved loved The Cut Throat Trial, the new novel by @barristersecret.bsky.social - gripping, convincing and very, very twisty
September 6, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Loved loved loved The Cut Throat Trial, the new novel by @barristersecret.bsky.social - gripping, convincing and very, very twisty
Felt like some Bach, and this has really hit the spot
August 24, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Felt like some Bach, and this has really hit the spot
I found my university Finals orchestration submission - in the beautiful calligraphy I could then do - and I've put it into my notation software, so I could hear it for the first time, after 30 years. Some things I winced at, but not a bad effort by the young me
August 20, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I found my university Finals orchestration submission - in the beautiful calligraphy I could then do - and I've put it into my notation software, so I could hear it for the first time, after 30 years. Some things I winced at, but not a bad effort by the young me
An unlikely Bartók fan
August 17, 2025 at 5:10 PM
An unlikely Bartók fan
In 1999 I played the Edinburgh Fringe - and today was the first time since then I‘ve been back in the venue - the Pleasance Below. Felt good to be back at the scene of my greatest triumph*
*birth of children not included
*birth of children not included
August 16, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In 1999 I played the Edinburgh Fringe - and today was the first time since then I‘ve been back in the venue - the Pleasance Below. Felt good to be back at the scene of my greatest triumph*
*birth of children not included
*birth of children not included
Last time I saw @watsoncomedian.bsky.social was at a very low-key 2021 Edinburgh Fringe - great to see him being brilliant tonight at a sold-out Pleasance
August 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Last time I saw @watsoncomedian.bsky.social was at a very low-key 2021 Edinburgh Fringe - great to see him being brilliant tonight at a sold-out Pleasance
I’ve loved the film Sing Street for a long time so was relieved to also love the musical @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social
August 12, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I’ve loved the film Sing Street for a long time so was relieved to also love the musical @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social
30 years exactly since this amazing album came out. I didn’t discover Ben Folds till a few years later, and via the second album, but there’s so much to love about this first one, from the intro to Jackson Cannery to the extraordinary end of Boxing
August 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
30 years exactly since this amazing album came out. I didn’t discover Ben Folds till a few years later, and via the second album, but there’s so much to love about this first one, from the intro to Jackson Cannery to the extraordinary end of Boxing
Finally come to see The Mousetrap and wow it’s hokey. The lines spoken like ritual incantation, it’s a secular service not a play
August 7, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Finally come to see The Mousetrap and wow it’s hokey. The lines spoken like ritual incantation, it’s a secular service not a play
Yesterday we dug the compost out of the bottom of the compost heap. It’s as near to magic as anything I know: fruit peel and grass cuttings go in the top, actual proper soil comes out the bottom. I find it miraculous
August 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Yesterday we dug the compost out of the bottom of the compost heap. It’s as near to magic as anything I know: fruit peel and grass cuttings go in the top, actual proper soil comes out the bottom. I find it miraculous