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Edmund Jolliffe

Professional

Composer/Lyricist: Composer
Genre: Concert
Email: edmund.jolliffe@gmail.com
Website: www.edmundjolliffe.com

Biography

Edmund is a composer of music for the concert hall, television and theatre. His music has been performed in many prestigious venues, including the Wigmore Hall, the Purcell Room, the Old Vic Theatre, Westminster Abbey, Jermyn Street Theatre, the National Portrait Gallery, the Red House at Aldeburgh and the Tate, Liverpool. It has also been performed as far afield as Michigan, Dallas and France.

Performers of his music include Nicholas Cleobury, David Campbell, Frances-Marie Uitti, David Titterington, David Goode, James Bowman, the Micallef-Inanga Piano Duo, The Royal College of Music Saxophones, Trinity College of Music Wind Orchestra, Ensemble 10/10, Sounds New and the Chapel Royal of St. James' Palace, amongst others.

He has written television music for all the terrestrial channels and many of the Satellite Channels (including Sky One, Discovery and America's ABC Channel). His music for the Imagine programme 'Fantastic Mr Dahl' is now an added extra on the DVD to 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and is an in flight movie on American Airlines.

Born in 1976, he studied music at Oxford University (1994-1997) and completed a Masters in Film Composition at the Royal College of Music (1998-1999) under Joseph Horovitz. He also studied on the Advanced Composition Course at Dartington International Summer School under Pavel Novak in 2004 (supported by the Ralph Vaughan Williams Trust) and completed a PGCE in Secondary Music at the Institute of Education in 2005.

Currently he divides his time between composing and teaching (he is assistant director of music at Westminster Under School and teaches at Junior Trinity College of Music).

Important Works Performances
  1. Electric City (2004) for Chamber Orchestra (2,2,2,2;2,2;perc;str) 9 mins
  2. Knock About (2004) for two marimbas and percussion, 5 mins 30. Recorded by O Duo and released on the Sony/BMG recording label
  3. Breathe (2004) piece for ten saxophones and piano, 5 mins 30
  4. Pagan Dances (2000) piece for two pianos, 20 mins
  5. The Signallers Vision (2003) A song cycle for counter tenor and piano, 10 mins
  6. Missa Gloria (2004) for SATB, S solo, brass quintet, perc, timp, organ - mass setting, 27 mins. Available for sale through http://www.tutti.co.uk/
  7. Make a Joyful Noise (2003) for SATB, trumpet and organ, 4 mins
  8. Out of your sleep (2002) for SATB and organ, 3 mins 30
  9. The Tale of TruLove - a musical (2003) For SA and piano, 25 mins.
  10. City Lights the Musical (2003) for chorus and band, 150 mins. Showcases at Westminster Under School, Sept 2003, the Old Vic Theatre, May 15th 2005, Jermyn Street Theatre, May 26th 2005.
  1. 03/12/2007: O, My Deir Hert (SATB) performed by the Orpheus Chamber Choir, Dallas
  2. 04/12/2007: Whim for cl. and string quartet performed by Sounds New with David Campbell on clarinet
  3. 04/12/2007: What comes after M? for 2 cl. string quartet and piano. Performed by Sounds New under Nicholas Cleobury
  4. 20/12/2007: O. my Deir Hert (SATB) performed at St. Martin-in-the-Fields Church, London
  5. 25/03/2007: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace. Anthem for the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace