David Russell Hulme

[3][4] He completed his PhD thesis, "The operettas of Sir Arthur Sullivan: a study of available autograph scores", in 1986 at the University of Wales.

[6] Russell Hulme regularly conducts throughout Britain and Ireland and in 2019 appeared for the first time as guest conductor with the Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra in Ukraine.

[4] He was the recipient of the 2012 Glyndŵr Award for "an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales" presented at the 2012 Machynlleth Festival.

2 and a 2002 score of Haydn's Missa in tempore belli (Mass in Time of War), among other pieces.

[3] He has reconstructed songs cut from Gilbert and Sullivan operas where the music had been partially lost, including the Duke's first act aria from Patience.

[15] He was Senior Music Advisor and a conductor at the Sir Edward German Music Festivals at Whitchurch, Shropshire in 2006, 2009 and 2014 and created The Edward German Archive, a collection of the composer's manuscripts and papers now held by the British Library.

[16] Russell Hulme conducted (and also edited the score and wrote liner notes for) the first complete recording of Tom Jones, by Edward German, released by Naxos in 2009.