London-born Elaine Hugh-Jones (1927) has enjoyed a multi-faceted career as a professional pianist, accompanist, composer and teacher. Her keyboard training was with Dr. F. W. Wadsley, Harold Craxton and Julius Isserlis, and composition lessons with Sir Lennox Berkeley. Elaine Hugh-Jones was an official accompanist for the BBC for 37 years. While playing for various radio and television productions in Birmingham she also taught piano at various institutions including 25 years at Malvern Girls’ College and later at Malvern College until her retirement in 1997. The pianist Michael Jones has written "Hugh-Jones’s songs are particularly notable for their richly imaginative piano parts allied to frequently memorable vocal lines. In recent years her piano writing has moved towards a more orchestral conception...." Her writing is almost entirely vocal and choral work and her latest song cycle, completed in 2003, Songs of War, settings of Wilfred Owen’s magnificent war poems, is scored for tenor or soprano voice with piano accompaniment, and also voice with full orchestra.

Many of her songs have been broadcast and during the past few years there have been many performances in Switzerland (10 concerts), America (4 concerts), 2 concerts in Norway, one in Paris, Italy and London, and several in the Midlands.

Her publishers are William Elkin, Micropress, and OUP.