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, Kensington Chamber Orchestra 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 Tim Burton's '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.
As well as composing, Edmund is also a composition tutor at Junior Trinity College of Music and Westminster Under School (where he is assistant director of music).