John Hardy (composer)
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John Hardy is an English-born composer who has been commissioned by the Arts Council/National Lottery, the BBC, Welsh National Opera and the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, among others.
Based for most of his working life in Wales, and honoured to be regarded as a Welsh composer by many Welsh people, he won a BAFTA Cymru award in 1994 for the multi-award-winning, and Oscar-nominated film Hedd Wyn, about a Welsh poet, Elis Ifans, who was conscripted into the British army during the First World War, and killed during his first hour in action at Ypres, just a few days before posthumously winning the ceremonial Chair for best long poem at the 1917 National Eisteddfod (cultural Festival). The film, directed by Paul Turner, was shot on super 16mm film, and only later blown up to make a 35mm print. The director took out a personal bank loan to be able to record a small orchestra playing the elegiac and romantic musical score.
