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Robert Hugill is a London based composer, journalist, blogger and lecturer. Robert runs the highly regarded classical music blog, Planet Hugill. Robert’s setting of Ruth Padel’s Learning to Make an Oud in Nazareth was premiered by Alistair Dixon and Chapelle du Roi in July 2015. Robert's cantata The Testament of Dr. Cranmer was issued on the Divine Art label. His opera When a man knows was performed in 2011 at the Bridewell Theatre, London, and his short one act opera The Genesis of Frankenstein is being premiered by The Helios Collective in October. Robert has recently completed Tempus per Annum, a cycle of 70 motets for the church’s year with over 45 hours of music. His songs were placed in the English Poetry and Song Society’s A E Housman and the Ivor Gurney competitions. Robert has given a number of lectures for Divas and Scholar’s study days at the Cadogan Hall, including an illustrated lecture on Rossini’s Neapolitan operas, a study of Verismo which was combined with a masterclass by Rosalind Plowright and a study of the life and work of Bellini which included and interactive collaboration between Robert and the soprano Nelly Miricioiu. Robert will be giving a course of five, two hour lectures An Introduction to Opera for the The Course at the Mayfair Womens’ Club in 2016.