Ed Hughes Recordings

Ed Hughes studied composition at Cambridge with Robin Holloway and Alexander Goehr, and at Southampton with Michael Finnissy. Commissions include The Opera Group, London Sinfonietta, Glyndebourne/Photoworks, I Fagiolini, Mahogany, and, for the Brighton Festival, Cuckmere (2018), Brighton: Symphony of a City (2016), Battleship Potemkin (2005) and Memory of Colour (2004) which transferred to the Sydney Festival; performances include BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and many ensembles and soloists. His choral work, A Buried Flame (2010), was selected for performance at the 2012 ISCM World Music Days in Antwerp by Aquarius. The Birds, an opera after Aristophanes with writer Glyn Maxwell, was premiered at the City of London Festival. When the Flame Dies, a chamber opera after Jean Cocteau with writer Roger Morris, was premiered at the 2012 Canterbury Festival. His work has been recorded on Metier Records, NMC and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and internationally. The New Music Players, an ensemble he founded and directs, recorded his original music to silent films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yasujiro Ozu for release by Tartan and BFI. He won a British Composer Award for Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey. He is Professor of Composition at the University of Sussex, His music is published by UYMP. Ed’s album ‘Time, Space & Change” (Metier MSV 28597) was chosen as one of the top 100 albums of 2020 by the Sunday Times.(https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-best-albums-of-2020-wqxgzpd98)

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