Judith Bailey (composer)

Judith Margaret Bailey was a Cornish clarinettist, composer and conductor.
Bailey was born in Camborne, Cornwall. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music from 1959 to 1963. From 1971 she worked as a composer and conductor. Bailey conducted the Southampton Concert Orchestra and Petersfield Orchestra for almost 30 years before returning to her native Cornwall around 2001 where she conducted the Cornwall Chamber Orchestra and the Penzance Orchestral Society.
In 2001 Bailey was honoured as an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, for showing distinction amongst her peers and in 2005 as a Bard of the Gorsedh Kernow for her contributions to music in Cornwall. She was a member of the Composers' Guild of Great Britain, the Cornish Music Guild, as well as a Trustee for the Cornwall Music Service Trust.
Bailey died on 16 March 2025 in Cornwall after a short illness.

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