Huw Belling is a composer and conductor, and the Principal Artistic Associate of Sydney Chamber Opera. He has read for a Doctorate in composition at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford, a Masters of Music at the Royal College of Music, London, and a Bachelor of Music (Hons) at the Conservatorium of Sydney. He is a represented artist with the Australian Music Centre.
Huw’s works are performed in Australia and worldwide with commissions in the repertoire at Westminster Abbey, and the gramophone-award winning Ensemble Plus Ultra. Huw has conducted premieres with Sydney Chamber Opera, and is a director of the Inner West Voices and St Stephens Macquarie St.
Recent commissions include Sydney Chamber Opera & the 20th Biennale of Sydney, Ensemble Offspring, ANAM, Sydney Bach Society, the Manchester Collective and the Australia Piano Quartet.
Huw’s research has concerned itself with rhythm in the music of Thomas Adès, and with appropriation and quotation in recent composition (his own and others’ including Robin Holloway, Wolfgang Rihm, and Alfred Schnittke). He has been based in in Sydney since completing his doctorate.
Huw Belling 