Edward Rushton

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The brilliant young composer Edward Rushton

Iain Burnside in The Guardian

An outstanding composer of the younger generation.
Barry Millington in the Evening Standard

A highly promising new voice in British opera.
Anna Picard in the Independent on Sunday

A marvellous piece, original in structure, both funny and moving.
Andrew Clements in the Guardian

Corrosively lyrical, jaggedly theatrical.
Geoff Brown in The Times

Rushtons Kompositionen überzeugen durch ihre Originalität, durch raffinierte, oft überraschende Klangfärbungen.

Christoph Schulte im Walde in Westfälische Nachrichten

Darf klassische Musik witzig sein? Wenn es nach Edward Rushton geht auf jeden Fall.

Heiko Ostendorf in Münstersche Zeitung

Listen:

http://soundcloud.com/edward-rushton/sets/edward-rushton-compositions

Contact:

edward@gioulamirushton.net

Latest News:

March 2012

Babur in London

New chamber opera for The Opera Group in collaboration with Indian poet Jeet Thayil:

The Opera Group: Babur in London

Performances 28th, 29th, 30th March 2012 at the Theater Rigiblick, Zurich

4th April 2012 at the Gare du Nord, Basel

5th April 2012 at the Lokremise, St Gallen

12th June 2012 at the Haymarket, Basingstoke

14th and 15th June 2012 at the Howard Assembly Room, Leeds

18th June 2012 at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff

24th June 2012 at the Oxford Playhouse, Oxford

26th, 27th and 28th June 2012 at the Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London

5th July 2012 at the Truck Theatre, Hull

7th July 2012 at the Cheltenham Music Festival

touring India in late 2012

with: ensemble für neue musik zürich

31st May, 2nd June 2012

Pandora, organische maschine (2011)

(text by Dagny Gioulami, music by Edward Rushton)
World premiere of the version for baritone and piano.
With Jonathan Sells, baritone, and Edward Rushton, piano

Theater Stok, Zürich
further performances in Basel, Imprimerie, 1st June

Lenzburg, Alter Gemeindesaal, 5th June
In the programme "Eros" with Maria Porten, Anna Herbst, Jeannine Hirzel and Tabitha Stähli. Directed by Gian Manuel Rau

Pandora, organic machine (2011) for speaker and four instruments (text by Dagny Gioulami), was premiered on 10th July at the Cheltenham Festival, by the group Counterpoise and the speaker Donald Maxwell. Further performances summer 2012 in the UK.

Biography:

Edward Rushton studied at Chetham's School of Music, King's College, Cambridge, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and the Zurich Conservatoire. His composition teachers have included Robin Holloway and James MacMillan. He is based in Zurich and works as a freelance composer and pianist.
Recent works have been commissioned for and played by such groups as the Endymion Ensemble, London Sinfonietta, Schubert Ensemble, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Faber Music, Camerata Zürich, Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, Vokalensemble Cantapella, Leeds Lieder+, Orchestra of the National Theatre Mannheim, London Symphony Orchestra, Counterpoise, The Harry White Trio, Zurich Opera, The Opera Group, State Opera of Hanover, State Opera of Kassel.