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About Ed
Born in London, Ed studied at Cambridge University, the Royal Academy of Music and with Royal Academy Opera. Winner of the Maidment Scholarship, the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, the Marjorie Thomas Song Prize, two Sybil Tutton Opera Awards and a scholarship from the International Opera Awards Foundation, he was a Finalist in the Royal Overseas League and Handel Singing Competition, a Britten Pears Young Artist and ENOA Young Artist. On the operatic stage, Ed has worked with companies across Europe including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, English National Opera, English Touring Opera, Opera Zuid, Nouvel Opera Fribourg, Theater Koblenz, Theatre Freiburg, at The Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. He has also worked widely with smaller companies such as Shadwell Opera, Dartington Opera, The Grimeborn Opera Festival, British Youth Opera, Opera in Oborne, with the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme and at the Edinburgh Fringe. He has particularly focused on modern and contemporary opera, where his roles include Algernon Montcrief (Gerald Barry, The Importance of Being Ernest), Chao Lin (Judith Weir, A Night at the Chinese Opera), Truffaldino (Jonathan Dove, The Little Green Swallow), Macbeth (Luke Styles, Macbeth), Avenant (Philip Glass, Die Schöne und das Biest), Tarquinius (Britten, The Rape of Lucretia), Demetrius (Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Nick Shadow (Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress). Further roles include Werther (Massenet, Werther 1903 Baritone Version), Count Almaviva (Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro), Guglielmo (Mozart, Cosi fan Tutte), Marcello (Puccini, La Boheme), Pandolfe (Massenet, Cendrillon) and Aeneas (Purcell, Dido and Aeneas). On the concert platform, his performances include Handel Messiah in the Royal Albert Hall and King’s Place, Bach St John Passion in St Paul’s Cathedral, Bach St Matthew Passion in Trinity College Chapel, Bach Christmas Oratorio in Lichfield Cathedral, Monteverdi Vespers in St Martin-in-the-Fields, Handel Israel in Egypt in the Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover, Handel Saul in Oxford Town Hall, Haydn The Creation in Chichester Cathedral, Haydn Nelson Mass in St John's Smith Square, Mozart Requiem in Guildford Cathedral, Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music in the Royal Festival Hall, Five Mystical Songs in Birmingham Cathedral, Sea Symphony in West Road Concert Hall and Mass in G in King's College Chapel and, during his time at the Royal Academy of Music, Bach Cantatas BWV 8, 32, 61, 62, 100, 157 and 201 as part of the Kohn Foundation/Royal Academy of Music Bach Cantata Series. As a consort singer, Ed is on the fixing list for many of the UK’s leading vocal ensembles including The Sixteen, Polyphony, The Monteverdi Choir, Tenebrae, The BBC Singers, The Dunedin Consort, Sonoro, English Voices and London Voices and he holds a permanent position in the world famous St Paul’s Cathedral Choir. He began singing as a chorister at the Temple Church under Stephen Layton and was subsequently a Choral Scholar in Clare College Choir and a Lay Clerk in King’s College Choir in Cambridge, where he was a featured soloist in the television broadcast of Carols from King’s. |
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