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Ed Scolding

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Composer/Lyricist: Composer
Genre: Concert
Email: ed@sdscolding.co.uk
Website: www.edscolding.co.uk

Biography

Please visit edscolding.co.uk for more information, scores and recordings. 


Ed studied composition at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, graduating with First Class Honours in 2008 under tutors Lynne Plowman and Timothy Raymond. 

As a composer, arranger and producer, Ed’s output ranges from concert works to film soundtracks and music for amateur musicians. Citing influences from Eric Truffaz and Cinematic Orchestra to Charles Ives and Gregorian chant, his music draws on both Jazz and classical idioms and can be distinguished by his use of lyrical lines, organic structures and distinct dramatic orchestration. 

His instrumental output includes orchestral works Darkroom Shavings and Tree, both performed in workshops by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Other works include Blue & Gold, a duet for clarinet and tenor horn, which was composed and recorded as part of the Davies Sisters collection exhibition at National Museum Cardiff, and Blue Thread for alto sax, cello and piano, selected as part of the Vox Novus 60x60 project. Film projects have included an upbeat soundtrack for the natural history film Bay of Life (installed at Cardigan Bay Marine Wildlife Centre and distributed to 1800 schools across Wales) and music for the short film Tool Thieves. Ed Scolding composes for John Hardy Music, producing music for a wide range of media and concert projects.

A composer continually inspired by the dramatic potential of the human voice, Ed’s vocal writing has been twice awarded the Barry Choral Society Competition prize with In Viam Pacis and The Falling Star, a setting of a poem by then 7-year old Oneeb bin Nauman. Most recently he completed Snowfall, a work for soprano and mixed ensemble, written under the guidance of Sir Peter Mawell Davies, Alasdair Nicolson and Sally Beamish at this year’s St Magnus Festival composers’ course in Orkney. Ed is now working on an operatic aria as part of a project led by Music Theatre Wales in conjunction with Michael Berkeley’s new opera For You. The aria will be performed by members of the company in a workshop later in 2008.

In addition to composing, Ed reviews concerts and CDs for the Society for the Promotion of New Music and sings with the BBC National Chorus of Wales.

Important Works Performances
  1. Dark-room Shavings (for orchestra)
  2. Minerals (Irish dance track)
  3. Pixel Ballet (for piano and tape)
  4. Echoes (for mezzo-soprano and string quartet)
  5. Blue String Pudding (for alto sax, cello and piano)
  6. In Viam Pacis (for choir)
  7. Different Sea (for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano)
  8. Gelatinous (for jazz quartet)
  9. Oiseaux (for bass clarinet)
  10. Just About (for cello)
  11. Glacial Source (for piano)
  12. Blue and Gold (for Clarinet in Bb and Tenor Horn)
  13. The Falling Star (for SATB choir)
  14. Two Voices (for Soprano and Alto soloists, SATB choir and string ensemble)
  15. Tree (for orchestra)
  1. Two Voices performed by Rosie Havel, Martha Maclorinan and students of RWCMD (first performance)
  2. Blue and Gold, performed by Lee Drew & Graham Jones at National Museum Cardiff (first performance)
  3. Glacial Source for solo piano, performed by Bethan James at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (first performance)
  4. Pixel Ballet, performed by Rachel Starritt at the Wales Millenium Centre (first performance)
  5. Gelatinous, performed by jazz collective (first performance)
  6. Minerals, dance track for Orlaiths of Irish Dance (first performance)
  7. In Viam Pacis for choir, performed by students at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama (first performance)