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Ed Bennett 'Musical accidents, stark contrasts and the freshness of improvisation interest me. Striving for perfection leads me to boredom. I like to be surprised by music, staying on the outside of things and occasionally dipping in and taking what I need to try to create something new.' |
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Co. Down-born Ed Bennett is a composer working in the fields of notated, electronic and improvised music. He has been commissioned and performed internationally by many diverse artists, ensembles and organisations, including the BBC, RTÉ, PRSF, Music Network, Moving On Music and the Arts Councils of England, Ireland and Northern Ireland. Recent premieres include Noise Machine (2008) commissioned by the Integra festival for saxophone, large ensemble, electronics and video for Paul Dunmall and the Swedish Ensemble Ars Nova, a new work for viola d’amore and electronics for Garth Knox, all of this used to be trees (2005) for orchestra and electronics for the Ulster Orchestra and a new work for the Fidelio Trio, for Marcel Dzama (2007). He was a finalist in the 2005 British Composer Awards and in early 2007 he was a featured composer in the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra’s Horizons series. His work Ausland (2005) for orchestra was awarded first prize in the Tactus Composers Forum in Brussels in 2006 and has subsequently been performed, broadcast and recorded many times. His music has been widely broadcast on radio and released on the Lorlelt, Enzyme and NMC labels. His teachers have included Michael Finnissy, Brian Irvine and Jo Kondo. He has also participated in international courses in Holland (Louis Andriessen) and Germany (Chaya Czernowin). In 2008 he was composer-in-residence at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris and is currently based at Birmingham Conservatoire where he is active as a teacher in the composition department. (biography © Contemporary Music Centre, Ireland) |
| Composer web site: www.edbennett.co.uk |
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