Ed Hughes - Composer

Selected works

ORCHESTRA                           CHORAL
Crimson Flames                       Six Poems of Osip Mandelshtam
Concerto                                  Sun, New Moon and Women Shouting
                                           Why Weepest Thou in Wild Array?
ENSEMBLE
Chamber Symphony                 SOLO
Chroma                                  Music for Liz (piano)
Memory of Colour                     Orchids 1-6 (piano)
Sextet                                      Etude: On Time (violin)

ENSEMBLE WITH VOICE      OPERA
The Sibyl of Cumae                   The Birds
                                                Cocteau in the Underworld
CHAMBER
Quartet                                  FILM SCORES
                                               Auditorium (Sophy Rickett, 2007)
                                               Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
                                               I Was Born But (Ozu, 1932)
                                               Rain (Ivens, 1929)
                                               Strike (Eisenstein, 1924)

‘A richly sonorous music’
Sunday Times 13 April 1997 on Chroma

‘A fine example of the hidden gems the Brighton Festival can produce’
Evening Argus 12 May 2004 on Memory of Colour

‘Pure magic...A rip-roaring vital spectacle...a show of terrific vitality and verve’
Independent 1 July 2005 on The Birds

‘truly emotional...an atmosphere of deeper resonances’
Times 1 July 2005 on The Birds

'Hughes's score is by far the highlight of this Potemkin'
Sight & Sound November 2007 on Battleship Potemkin

'A very effective score by Ed Hughes'
Sight & Sound November 2007 on Strike