ABOUT EDEd studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won the Marjorie Thomas Art Song Prize, the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize and was supported by the International Opera Awards Foundation.
He made his professional debut creating the title role in Macbeth by Luke Styles for the Glyndebourne Festival Opera Jerwood Programme with performances in the Jerwood Studio at Glyndebourne and at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House. Recent and Forthcoming roles include the title role in Algernon Montcrief in Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest for Novel Opéra Fribourg with performances in the Théâtre Equilibre in Fribourg and Théâtre l'Athénée in Paris, Avenant in Philip Glass Die Schöne und das Biest for Theater Koblenz, Pandolfe Cendrillon for Theater Freiburg, title role Werther (1901 baritone version), Marco Gianni Schicchi, cover Count Almaviva The Marriage of Figaro for English Touring Opera, cover 2nd Priest/Jude of the Dead in Harrison Birtwistle The Mask of Orpheus for English National Opera and workshop showcases of The Conifers by Joel Rust, The Raft by Jesse Jones and Bermondsey, 1983 by Robert Reid Allan for the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme at Snape Maltings. For Royal Academy Opera his roles included Tarquinius The Rape of Lucretia, Pandolfe Cendrillon and Madhouse Keeper The Rake’s Progress, for British Youth Opera Truffaldino in Jonathan Dove’s The Little Green Swallow and cover Chao Lin in Judith Weir’s A Night at the Chinese Opera, for Dartington Aeneas Dido and Aeneas and Demetrius A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Edinburgh Fringe. His many concert appearances include work with the Britten Sinfonia, the Orchestra of St John, the Orchestra of St Paul's, Sounds Baroque and the Academy of Ancient Music and in venues including the Royal Albert Hall, the Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place, the Royal Festival Hall and King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. Forthcoming engagements include Handel Israel in Egypt with Capella St. Crucis in Hannover, Handel Italian Cantatas with Sounds Baroque in Dumfries and Fauré Requiem with the Faust Chamber Orchestra. Whilst at the Royal Academy of Music, he was a soloist in the acclaimed Royal Academy of Music/Kohn Foundation Bach Cantata Series and a member of the Academy Song Circle, with whom he made his Wigmore Hall debut. He is a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a ENOA Young Artist, an Opera Prelude Young Artist and was a Finalist in the London Handel Singing Competition and the Royal Overseas League Singing Competition. Ed is immensely grateful for the support, past and present, of an International Opera Awards Foundation Bursary the Maidment Scholarship and two Sybil Tutton Opera Awards administered by Help Musicians UK, a Howard de Walden Award, Carr-Gregory Scholarship and Clumber Studio Scholarship administered by the Royal Academy of Music, The Lady Clare Fund, The Kathleen Trust, The John Wates Charitable Trust, Ollie Strachan and Claire Wills, The Josephine Baker Trust, and for scholarships to the Britten-Pears Young Artist Programme, the Dartington International Summer School and the North Sea Vocal Academy in Denmark. Born in London, Ed began singing at the Temple Church and was as a Choral Scholar in Clare College Choir and King’s College Choir in Cambridge, where he read History. He was a featured soloist on the 2009 BBC Television Broadcast of ‘Carols from King’s’. |
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