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Howard Goodall
Almost everyone knows one of Howard Goodall's popular
TV themes for Blackadder, Mr Bean, Red Dwarf, The Catherine
Tate Show, Q.I. or The Vicar of Dibley. Other television
scores include The Borrowers and his BAFTA-nominated The
Gathering Storm. In the theatre his musicals have been
performed throughout the world. The Hired Man, which he
wrote with Melvyn Bragg in 1984, won The Ivor Novello
Award for Best Musical (1985), 4 Olivier Award nominations,
in Holland a John Kraaijkamp Musical Award (2001), 7 Waterford
International Musical Festival awards and in 2004 the
TMA Award for Best Musical. Girlfriends (1986) was premiered
in London's West End in 1987 and in the USA in May 2003.
Days of Hope (1990) was a co-production of Hampstead Theatre
and the Oxford Stage Company, Silas Marner was commissioned
by the 1993 Salisbury Festival and subsequently revived
by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera. The Kissing-Dance
(1999) and The Dreaming (2001) were both commissioned
by the National Youth Music Theatre and toured extensively
after seasons at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden's
Linbury Theatre. A Winter's Tale was premiered at the
Sage Gateshead in December 2005. He is a prodigious writer
of choral music. In Memoriam Anne Frank was performed
at the first National Holocaust Memorial concert in January
2001, O Lord God of Time and Eternity at the 2003 Service
of Remembrance for the Iraq war in St Paul's Cathedral,
and his settings of Psalm 23 and Love Divine are amongst
the most performed of all contemporary choral works.
As well as presenting the BBC's Choir of the Year since
1990, he has written and presented his own highly-acclaimed
music documentaries for Channel 4. Howard Goodall's Organ
Works won him an RTS Award in 1998, Howard Goodall's Big
Bangs won in 2000 the prestigious BAFTA Huw Weldon award
in the UK, a Peabody award (USA) for Journalism &
Mass Communication, and an IMZ TV award for Best Documentary
(Austria). Howard Goodall's Great Dates in 2002 was BAFTA-nominated.
In December 2004 he presented a South Bank Show on youth
music in the UK, Musical Nation, and his new series for
Channel 4, Howard Goodall's 20th Century Greats, won an
RTS Award for Education and was nominated for a BAFTA
Award and an International Rose d'Or.
Howard is a proud trustee of the The Sage Gateshead, Youth
Music, the Purcell School Foundation and The Voices Foundation.
He was a Cultural Ambassador for London's successful 2012
Olympic bid and a founder signatory of The Music Manifesto,
for which he chairs the National Vocal Strategy.
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Other
Judges
Ken
Burton
Eugene
Skeef
David
Lawrence
Tim
Sutton
Gillian
Dibden
Michael
Morwood
Susan Digby
Stuart Barr
Richard
Sisson
Tolga Kashif
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