Edward Lambert

Professional

Composer/Lyricist:	Composer
Genre:	Concert
Email:	mail@lambertmusic.co.uk
Website:	www.lambertmusic.co.uk

Biography

Edward Lambert is a musician and composer, who has written a wide variety of music for concerts, theatre and education.

He studied music at Oxford University and the Royal College of Music. He went on to train as a repetiteur at the London Opera Centre and subsequently worked for many opera companies here and abroad. He lived for a while in Germany before settling in London where he was on the music staff of the Royal Opera House for several years. There he was instrumental in devising many education projects up and down the country, giving countless workshops in composition to people of all ages, and enabling hundreds of children to participate in the creation of their own operas. His large-scale opera The Button Moulder after Ibsen’s Peer Gynt was the Royal Opera’s first work specially commissioned for schools.

Recent pieces include works for orchestra, two string quartets, pieces for choir, including some for liturgical use, ‘du barocque...’ for wind and piano, Concerto Cubico for trombone, marimba & harp, and two operas: The Dream That Hath No Bottom (after Shakespeare) was written for a village in Hampshire, and All in the Mind was performed in 2004 at the Britten Theatre at the Royal College of Music, London, by the W11 Opera Company. His Chamber Concerto was performed by Lontano at the Bath Festival, his Mass for Four Voices at the Huddersfield Festival and on Radio Three, and the chamber opera Caedmon by the Garden Venture at the Royal Opera House. His Piano Quartet won the Humphrey Searle Memorial Competition.

As a freelance conductor, chorus master and pianist the companies he has worked for include Dublin Grand Opera, Wexford Festival Opera, Ambosian Singers, Ballet Rambert, Netherlands Opera, Maggio Musicale in Florence, Philharmonia and London Symphony Choruses, Aix-en-Provence Festival, Buxton and Exeter Festivals.

www.lambertmusic.co.uk

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