Judith Bailey(b.1941)

Judith Bailey was born in Cornwall and studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, specialising in clarinet, piano, conducting and composition. Since 1971 she has worked freelance, conducted the Petersfield Orchestra and Southampton Concert Orchestra for around thirty years, and has produced a substantial amount of music which is widely performed and published. In 2001 she returned to live and work in her native Cornwall where she became conductor of the Penzance Orchestral Society and Cornwall Chamber Orchestra, and in the same year was awarded the honour of an ARAM from the Royal Academy of Music. In 2005 she was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to music in Cornwall.