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Musical Composition was one of the subjects Julian Bream studied at the Royal College of Music. Bream occasionally enjoyed composing when the mood would strike him but he never recorded any of his compositions, and only rarely has he performed them in concert. Occasionally, when he has performed a personal composition, it has always been as an encore therefore it is not documented on the concert programme. It appears that he always made sure that there was no one in the audience that might ask him about the encore. We have not come across anyone one close to Bream that remembers hearing a Bream composition.

When Julian Bream performed at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1970, he performed one of his compositions titled "Interlude" in the Thomas Hardy programme.

In 1971, the film Bream at Stratford was aired on Omnibus. Bream had held a 10 day masterclass in Stratford, Ontario earlier that year, Bream composed a theme especially for the film that's named "The Bream Theme". Unfortunately this film has yet to be posted on YouTube.

Calgary Herald, July 9, 1971, p. 72.

"I have actually trotted out some of them for encores - unannounced of course - but I haven't even done that in years. Composing is something I have to do to get it out of my system; it's a bit like going to the shrink".

FRETS magazine 1981

Julian Bream the Composer