Nicholas Duggan

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Nicholas Duggan, born in Milford Haven, Wales in 1962 is a British composer.

Attended several schools from Stromness Academy in the Orkney Islands (Scotland) to Freeport High School on Grand Bahama Island (Bahamas)and later studied at The Welsh College of Music and Drama, The City of Leeds College of Music, (studyng Composition with Charles Bodmin Rae,) Goldsmiths College London - University of London, Thames Valley University and currently undertaking PhD studies in Composition at the University of Wales, Bangor with Professor Andrew Lewis.

Winner of the Michael Grady Memorial Prize for Composition (1985)and the William Lincer Foundation Prize (2004) Duggan is essentially an advocate of Diatonic music although he has composed works in a variety of genres. His Electro-acosutic works "Rime of the Ancient Mariner", " Hoksip" and "The First Sign of Trouble" are examples of employing absract and concrete sounds with a traditional harmonic language in order to emphasise both.