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Ed holds the Harvey Lohr Award at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is studying for an MMus in Composition with Philip Cashian.
Ed graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama in 2008 under tutors Lynne Plowman and Timothy Raymond. Additional tutors have included Peter Maxwell Davies, James MacMillan, Robert Spearing, John Hardy, Alasdair Nicholson, Pete Judge and Michael Rafferty.
During 2008-09 Ed was composer-in-residence for the stem-cell research inspired “Reaching for the Sky” project at St. Gregory’s Catholic College. Funded by the Wellcome Trust, the position involved workshops with primary and secondary school pupils, regular classroom composition lessons and producing, directing and conducting music for a multi-arts show with dance and stage art.
Ed’s music has been performed at the Wales Millennium Centre, the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama, St. Magnus Festival, Ashton Court Festival, National Museum Cardiff and on Channel 4. Concert and workshop performers include Music Theatre Wales, BBC National Orchestra of Wales with Jac van Steen, Barry Choral Society, Emperor string quartet, PM Ensemble, Mavron String Quartet, Kate Price, Sara Watts, Graham Jones, Darragh Morgan and Mary Dullea.
Instrumental music includes orchestral works Darkroom Shavings and Tree; Blue & Gold for the Davies Sisters’ collection exhibition at National Museum Cardiff; Pixel Ballet for a project by Thalia Myers; and Blue Thread, selected for the Vox Novus 60x60 2006 UK Mix. Film projects include the natural history film Bay of Life for Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and Welsh schools, and music for the Channel 4 programme ‘Chaos at the Zoo’.
Ed’s vocal music has twice been awarded the Barry Choral Society Composition prize. Key works include Visions Through Translucent Time, The Falling Star and Snowfall, written under the guidance of Sir Peter Mawell Davies, Alasdair Nicolson and Sally Beamish at St Magnus Festival Composers’ Course in Orkney, for which Ed was awarded a bursary.
In 2008, selection and participation in the Music Theatre Wales ‘Make an Aria’ project led to the creation and performance of an operatic scene for one character from Michael Berkeley/Ian McEwan’s opera For You. The aria Not Being Charles Frieth was created with writer Bethan James and developed in a workshop with Judith Weir.
In 2007 Ed produced the first joint concert of music by composers from both the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama and Cardiff University.
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