Parry-Jones, John Metcalf and Christopher Painter. He was awarded honorary doctorates from numerous leading musical institutions, including the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal Northern College of Music and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, as well as the Walford Davies Award. He was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1983 New Year Honours. In 2005, Hoddinott produced a fanfare to be performed at the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, to Camilla Parker Bowles, having previously written works to celebrate Prince Charles' 16th birthday and his investiture. In 1997 Alun Hoddinott received the Glyndŵr Award for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales during the Machynlleth Festival. He also received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Arts Council of Wales in 1999, and Fellowship of the Welsh Music Guild. On 1 March 2007 (Saint David's Day) soprano Helen Field and baritone Jeremy Huw Williams gave the world première of his orchestral song cycle Serenissima with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at St David's Hall. It was announced on this occasion that the new home of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff would include a specially built 350-seat concert hall, named BBC Hoddinott Hall (). The new hall was inaugurated with an opening festival held between 22 January and 1 February 2009, with live performances broadcast on BBC Radio 3. The opening piece was a show piece by Hoddinott himself. Alun Hoddinott died on 11 March 2008 at Morriston Hospital, Swansea, aged 78, the day after the world première at the Wigmore Hall of his Music for String Quartet, given by the Sacconi Quartet. His very last work, the orchestral tone poem "Taliesin", was premièred by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales at the Swansea Festival of Music in October 2009. Chronological worklist late 1940s two student string quartets 1948 Cello Concerto 1948 Prelude and fugue for string trio 1949 Nocturne for orchestra 1950 Op. 1 String Trio ? Op. 2 Two Songs for bass voice and piano 1953 Op. 3 Clarinet Concerto 1, +str 1954 Op. 4/1 Lullaby, voice and piano 1954 Op. 4/2 Fugal Overture 1953 Op. 5 Nocturne for Orchestra (first published work) 1953 Op. 6 Clarinet Quartet 1954-5 Op. 7 Symphony 1 1955 Op. 8 Concerto for Oboe and Strings 1956 Op. 9 Nocturne 1 for piano 1956