News
Cocteau in the Underworld at Grimeborn:
Fri 20 and Sat 21 August 2010
The first opportunity to hear all 70 minutes of Ed's opera Cocteau in the Underworld in a new staging by director Poppy Burton-Morgan further exploring the use of film to create an inter-disciplinary work of live and pre-recorded video and opera. Live characters who inhabit the space interact with visually pre-recorded (but live sung) characters who physically break through into the live space. Performed as a 'work in progress' with piano, the show will feature five outstanding young singers and top contemporary music pianist Richard Casey with video by designer Will Reynolds.
Ed Hughes and New Music Players at
Kings Place: Out Hear series: Mon 27 September 2010 at 8pm
This event features concert music written for The New Music Players by its founder Ed Hughes, including Quartet, Sextet and a brand new piece Chamber Concerto. Also current collaborations with David Chandler, (director of Photoworks) and filmmakers Lizzie Thynne and Adrian Goycoolea, examining music's intersection with the still image in documentary and abstract film.
Tickets now available online price £9.50 from the Kings Place website.
Cocteau in the Underworld in 'Exposure' at the Royal Opera House, 14 and 16 April 2010
A ten minute extract of Ed's opera Cocteau in the Underworld will be featured at the Royal Opera House ROH2 Exposure event at the Linbury Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in April. The extract will be performed semi-staged with new video by director Poppy Burton-Morgan and lighting / video designer Will Reynolds. Buried Flame: Feature article in Choir and Organ
Choir and Organ magazine ran a 3-page feature article on Buried Flame, Ed's new work for choir, electronics and bass guitar, to be premiered by Bath Camerata and Nigel Perrin in Wells Cathedral on Good Friday. Please see 'Press and Comment' for full details.Buried Flame: World Premiere at Wells Cathedral, Good Friday 1 April 2010
The PRS Foundation has funded a commission from prize-winning Bath-based chamber choir Bath Camerata, directed by ex-King's singer Nigel Perrin. The new work will be premiered in Wells Cathedral on Good Friday, 2010 and features settings of poems written by prisoners incarcerated in Guantanamo Bay, interspersed with texts from Psalm 69.Ed Hughes blog
Extracts and videos of several recent works are available on Ed's blogspot.
Lewes performance of Chamber Concerto - world premiere of first movement
The Musicians of All Saints, a Lewes-based chamber orchestra of professional musicians dedicated to the presentation of both new and unusual works together with a standard repertoire of better-known pieces, gave the world premiere of the first of a projected four movements of Ed's Chamber Concerto on Sunday 28 February 2010.
AUDITORIUM continues to tour internationally
AUDITORIUM, Ed's Glyndebourne Education commission to a film by Sophie Rickett, continues to tour internationally, with installations in Tokyo, Barcelona, London, Derby, Alsace and Berwick-on-Tweed in 2009.
Violin premiere and AUDITORIUM at the Courtauld Institute
Violinist Anna Blackmur gave the world premiere performance of Etude: On Time as part of an evening of events exploring the concept of Time in various different genres on Friday 22 May 2009. The evening also featured a film showing of AUDITORIUM, Ed's Glyndebourne Education commission to a film by Sophy Rickett.Cocteau in the Underworld: sold-out performance at Brighton Festival
Ed's new opera Cocteau in the Underworld, with a libretto by Roger Morris, played to a full house at the Brighton Festival on Monday 4 May. Presented as part of a series of 'Platform' events featuring work-in-progress, acts 1 and 3 were performed fully-staged in Brighton's Pavilion Theatre, directed by John Lloyd Davies with musical director David Angus. ROH2 OperaGenesis Workshop for opera Cocteau in the Underworld
Cocteau in the Underworld was workshopped by ROH2 OperaGenesis in November 2008, resulting in a fully-staged performance of 35 minutes of music. The workshop was directed by ROH Head of Opera Development John Lloyd Davies with musical director David Angus and pianist Liz Rowe.
Below:
Owen Gilhooly as Cocteau and Andrew Radley as Raymond in Cocteau in the Underworld workshop performance
The People Show, Bethnal Green, 14 November 2008 (Photo: John Lloyd Davies)
MP3s available on Critical Notice
MP3s of Light Cuts Through Dark Skies (New Music Players) and Orchid 3 (Stephen Gutman, piano) can be downloaded from the British Music Information Centre's new website showcasing the work of young UK composers: www.criticalnotice.comStrike / Battleship Potemkin DVD
The 3-DVD surround-sound box set of Strike and Battleship Potemkin with Ed’s new scores performed by New Music Players is still available.You can order a copy for the reduced price of £25 including postage (rrp £30) - send a cheque payable to ‘Liz Webb Management’ at 3 Morley Close LEWES BN7 1NQ. Also available on Amazon ('Eisenstein Collection') and in all good DVD shops.