Bernard Hughes’s music has been performed by ensembles including the BBC Singers and the London Mozart Players at major British venues including the Royal Albert Hall and St Paul’s Cathedral, and regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. Bernard Hughes’s BBC commission “Birdchant” was premiered at the Proms in August 2021, the culmination of the composer’s long relationship with the BBC Singers, which also included a major portrait concert in January 2020.

An album of Bernard Hughes’s choral music, “I am the Song,” performed by the BBC Singers, was released on Signum Classics in 2016. His orchestral works for family concerts, “Bernard & Isabel” and “The Knight Who Took All Day” are frequently performed around Britain and were recorded by the Orchestra of the Swan on a release from February 2020. An album of choral music, “Precious Things,” sung by the Epiphoni Consort, was released in May 2022 and was described by Judith Weir as “choral music as we rarely hear it - generous, light-footed, surprising.”

Releases in 2023 included “Bagatelles,” an album of piano music, and the song cycle “Songs for Our Times.” In 2024 “Hear My Heart Sing” was premiered by the Bath choir Lucis, and it has gone on to receive a number of further performances, including by the National Youth Choir in 2025. Bernard Hughes lives in London where he is Composer-in-Residence at the St Paul’s Girls’ School.

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