Scottish Music Centre - Industry Directory

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John Hearne was born Reading, with his parents having came from Wales. Since 1970 he has lived in Scotland. He studied in St Luke's College, Exeter, and at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth where he gained a First Class Honours degree and a Masters degree. For a time he taught music in Iceland, and for 17 years was a lecturer at Aberdeen College of Education. He was the first Chairman of the Scottish Society of Composers, and was the Chairman of the Scottish Music Advisory Committee of the BBC from 1986 to 1990. He is now a free-lance composer, singer and conductor, and was Chairman of Gordon Forum for the Arts in Aberdeenshire for three years. He was Warden for the Performers and Composers Section of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, and is a former member of the Executive Committee of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain.

In 1985, John's suite for Brass and Percussion, The Four Horsemen, was premièred at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. It was voted the best new work heard on the Fringe that year and the composer received the Festival City Radio Trophy from Radio Forth. This work has since been performed many times by a number of different groups, including the BBC Scottish Brass Ensemble and The Wallace Collection. In January 1998, he was asked to form a new choral society in his local town of Inverurie.

In July 2003, John was a guest composer at the Victoria International Arts Festival in Gozo, Malta. His choral song The Seagull, based on a folksong from Skye, was featured by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain in their 2003 tour of Australia and Singapore, and was a spectacular success.

John was recently (2004) awarded the degree of Doctor of Music (D.Mus.) from the University of Wales, the first time this degree has been conferred in more than thirty years. The award was based on a portfolio of his compositions. He graduated in Aberystwyth in July 2005.

Artists | Classical | Conductors/Choral Directors

Conductor of the Stonehaven Chorus and Inverurie Choral Society. He is also composer and copyist.

Suppliers and Services | Copyists | Computer

Using Sibelius 7. Competitive rates including printing and binding of scores and parts.