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Edward Southall (born June 24, 1986 in Hereford) is a young English composer of classical music who currently resides in Jersey, Channel Islands. He has just completed a year studying with Mark-Anthony Turnage at London's Royal College of Music. In October 2006, Edward will commence his studies in Music at Queens' College, Cambridge.
For four years Edward was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain Composers' Course where his teachers included Paul Patterson and Diana Burrel. Whilst with the NYO, Edward had works performed by various ensembles within the orchestra. The NYO Sinfonietta, conducted by Peter Stark, performed some of his larger scale works at venues such as Radley College, Oxford.
In 2003 he was a runner-up in the BBC Proms / Guardian Young Composer Competition after submitting Monsieur Moustique, which has since been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. In early 2004 the composer was invited to write a work for The Endymion Ensemble. Athens is Burning! was performed for the first time in The Purcell Room, South Bank in February 2004. This piece was subsequently broadcast on BBC Radio 2's The Green Room.
In July 2005 Edward's Fanfare for the EU was premiered at the British Council Building, London as part of the celebrations, hosted by Neil Kinnock, for the UK taking over the presidency of the European Union.
Gerard Le Feuvre commissioned Edward to write a work to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Jersey's Liberation from the Nazi's Occupation. Edward's piece entitled The Faces of Freedom was performed in May 2005 by The King's Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Le Feuvre at Jersey's Opera House. The composition has been released on commercial CD.
2006 has so far seen some of Edward's works being performed at venues including The Warehouse (Theed Street, London), RCM's Concert Hall and Recital Hall, Steinway Hall (London) and The Juilliard School (New York).
