ABOUT EDEd studied at Clare College, Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he won the Marjorie Thomas Art Song Prize, the Elena Gerhardt Lieder Prize, the Grabowski Connell Prize and the Douglas Samuel & Birdie Matthews Award.
Since graduating he has played the title role in Macbeth by Luke Styles for Glyndebourne Festival Opera, with performances in the Jerwood Studio at Glyndebourne and the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, the title role in Massenet’s Werther (1902 baritone version), Shackleton in Russell Hepplewhite Shackleton's Cat, Marco in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and cover Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro for English Touring Opera, Pandolfe in Massenet's Cendrillon for Theater Freiburg and Nick Shadow III/cover Nick Shadow in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress for the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. Future plans include Algernon Montcrief in Gerald Barry's The Importance of Being Earnest for Opéra de Fribourg with performances in Fribourg and Paris, house debuts in Germany, workshops for the Jerwood Opera Writing Programme at Snape Maltings and concerts with the London Handel Festival. Other roles include; for Royal Academy Opera, Tarquinius in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia; 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 in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas; for the Edinburgh Fringe, Demetrius in Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream; for Shadwell Opera Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan Tutte; for Vivo d'Arte, Marcello in Puccini's La Boheme. His many concert appearances include performances at the Royal Albert Hall, the Cadogan Hall, St John’s Smith Square, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Kings Place and King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, amongst others. 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 also a Britten-Pears Young Artist, a ENOA Young Artist, an Opera Prelude Young Artist and was recently a Finalist in the London Handel 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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