Howard Lindsay Goodall is an English composer of musicals, choral music and music for television.
14 Facts About Howard Goodall
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Howard Goodall presents music-based programmes for television and radio, for which he has won many awards.
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Howard Goodall then went on to Stowe School and Lord Williams's School.
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Howard Goodall read music at Christ Church, Oxford, where he gained a first-class degree.
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Howard Goodall is married to Val Fancourt, who is a classical music agent, and they have two daughters.
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Howard Goodall has composed the main themes and incidental music for UK comedy programmes including Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Mr Bean, The Thin Blue Line, The Vicar of Dibley, The Catherine Tate Show, 2point4 Children, Words and Pictures and QI, on which he has appeared twice as a panellist.
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In March 2009, Classic FM released Howard Goodall's Enchanted Voices, a modern exploration of ancient chant, scored for upper voices, cello, organ, handbells and synthesiser.
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Howard Goodall's Enchanted Voices was followed by Howard Goodall's Enchanted Carols and Pelican in the Wilderness.
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Howard Goodall arranged an orchestral and choir score for Psalm 122 for Tonbridge School to commemorate their chapel which burnt down in the 1980s.
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Howard Goodall was commissioned by Truro Cathedral to write a new work for all four of the Cathedral's choirs: Truro Cathedral Choir, St Mary's Singers, Cornwall Youth Choir and Cornwall Junior Choir.
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Steadfast, with music and lyrics by Howard Goodall, was released on 14 October 2014, in aid of Global's Make Some Noise, a charity that helps disadvantaged children in the UK.
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Howard Goodall received a Royal Television Society award for Organworks and the 2000 BAFTA Huw Wheldon award for Big Bangs, which won several international prizes.
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Howard Goodall has been awarded honorary Doctorates of Music from Bishop Grosseteste University College in Lincoln, the University of Bolton, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts with the University of East Anglia and Doctor of Literature from the Institute of Education, University College London.
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In January 2011, Howard Goodall was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to music education.