Hugh’s parents were both cathedral choristers at Rochester: unsurprisingly, his formative years were spent in the English choral tradition. At school, piano and clarinet were soon cast aside for drums and orchestral percussion.
Hugh has played for most, if not all, of the amateur ensembles in Leicestershire and beyond over the last fifteen-odd years, while still somehow managing to hold down a full-time job as a computer network engineer.
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of a woman.
To play a wrong note is insignificant; to play without it is inexcusable. Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.
Ludwig van Beethoven
The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
There are four instrument families in the orchestra.
They are the strings, the woodwinds, brass, and percussion.