Edward Barnes (composer)
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Edward Barnes (born December 16, 1958) is an American composer and producer.
Edward Barnes studied music composition at the Juilliard School with composers Vincent Persichetti and David Diamond and at the Dartington Hall in Great Britain with composer-conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Early in his career he established himself as an opera composer, working in Boston as resident composer of Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston and later at the Los Angeles Opera. He eventually turned towards Broadway and the world of musical theater, writing, arranging, and conducting shows for theaters in New York and around the country. A resident artist at the Ucross Foundation, the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen Sondheim Award.
In recent years, Barnes has begun working as a producer of theatrical and concert events. In New York, he produced both Scott Joplin's Treemonisha and Philip Glass's The Juniper Tree for the Collegiate Chorale at Lincoln Center, and will produce the upcoming NY Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's White House Cantata at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is also the composer/producer for the Night Kitchen Radio Theater, on XM Satellite Radio, and SpokenWordAmerica.com, as well as Director of Outpost Arts, a new digital music distribution company.
Barnes lives in New York City.
[edit] Works
- The Old Man Who Loved Cheese (With Garrison Keillor)
- Punch & Judy Get Divorced (with David Gordon, Ain Gordon and Arnold Weinstein)
- Old Aunt Dinah's Sure Guide To Dreams & Lucky Numbers
- The Bones of Love
- The Vagabond Queen
- Mystery on the Docks
- A Place To Call Home
- Spain/36 (With the San Francisco Mime Troupe)
- A Muskrat Lullaby
