Ed Dudley Hughes (born 1968) is a British composer, born in
Bristol
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.
Work
His work as a composer has included ensemble, orchestral, solo and choral/vocal compositions, many of which have been performed in the UK and abroad, and broadcast on
BBC Radio
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3.
Commissions have come from City of
London
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Festival/The Opera Group (an opera, The Birds), Brighton Festival (''Memory of Colour'', ''Battleship Potemkin''),
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
Glyndebourne Festival Opera is an annual opera festival held at Glyndebourne, an English country house near Lewes, in East Sussex, England.
History
Under the supervision of the Christie family, the festival has been held annually since 1934, e ...
/
Photoworks (''Auditorium'', a film with
Sophy Rickett), Tacet Ensemble,
I Fagiolini, amongst others.
His work has been featured at De La Warr Pavilion, Sydney Opera House Studio, Barbican Centre, Buxton Opera House, Salamanca Festival, British Library Atrium (Breaking the Rules), Glyndebourne, Jerusalem Music Centre, Hanns Eisler Conservatoire Berlin, and many other venues. Nominations include British Composer Awards for New Media and Sonic Art. He is Senior Lecturer in Music at Sussex University.
His scores to
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (russian: Сергей Михайлович Эйзенштейн, p=sʲɪrˈɡʲej mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ ɪjzʲɪnˈʂtʲejn, 2=Sergey Mikhaylovich Eyzenshteyn; 11 February 1948) was a Soviet film director, scre ...
's classic silent films
Battleship Potemkin
'' Battleship Potemkin'' (russian: Бронено́сец «Потёмкин», ''Bronenosets Potyomkin''), sometimes rendered as ''Battleship Potyomkin'', is a 1925 Soviet silent
drama film produced by Mosfilm. Directed and co-written by S ...
and
Strike were specially recorded by the New Music Players and released in 2007 on Tartan DVD in Dolby Digital and DTS (5.1).
He collaborated with the author
Roger Morris on a new opera entitled ''Cocteau In The Underworld'', which has received work-in-progress performances through the OperaGenesis scheme, an ROH2 initiative with the support of the Genesis Foundation.
Examples of his work can be heard on his website. His work is published by University of York Music Press.
References
External links
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University of York Music PressNew Music Players official site
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British composers
Living people
1968 births