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, conducting Petersfield Orchestra and Southampton Concert Orchestra for around thirty years, and producing 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 is conductor of Penzance Orchestra Society and Cornwall Chamber Orchestra, and in the same year was awarded the honour of an ARAM from the Royal Academy.
In 2005 she was made a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth for services to music in Cornwall.
I Sing of a Maiden is a simple but evocative setting of the beautiful Medieval lyric poem celebrating the Annunciation and coming birth of Christ.…
I Sing of a Maiden is a simple but evocative setting of the beautiful Medieval lyric poem celebrating the Annunciation and coming birth of Christ. Written in a modern but lyrical and accessible idiom, Judith Bailey’s choral piece features chordal writing which is both radiant and dramatic.
The piano accompaniment is used sparingly, providing a colourful and harmonically inventive framework, contrasting a unison rhythmic design for the choir. The slow moving harmonies create musical landscapes of atmospheric beauty providing music which is suitable for choirs both large and small.
I Sing of a Maiden was first published by Recital Music in 2012.