Montepulciano, Tuscany, Italy
Paul Max Edlin has a career that combines composing, conducting, trumpet playing, lecturing, artistic direction and the championing of new music and music education. He studied at the Royal College of Music (RCM). He has won many composition prizes including IX Premio lnternazionale Ancona. He received a Leverhulme Studentship for postgraduate study at RCM. He took his doctorate at Sussex University. He was a founder member of the Artistic Group of Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival, becoming Artistic Director from 2007 to 2012. From 2003 to 2010 he was Artistic Director of Deal Festival of Music and the Arts. In 2009 he became Warden of the Composers and Performers Section of The Independent Society of Musicians. In 2011 he was elected President of the Independent Society of Musicians. He was Professor of Music at Canterbury Christ Church University from 2009 to 2012. In 2013 he was appointed Director of Music at Queen Mary University of London, retiring in 2022 after 39 years work in higher education. In 2014 he rejoined Deal Festival of Music and the Arts as Artistic Director, overseeing its development into a fully fledged arts organisation and transforming it into Deal Music & Arts. He stepped down in 2022 when he moved to Italy. Paul’s compositions have been performed both in the U.K. and internationally by many leading artists such as Alison Balsom OBE, Dame Sarah Connolly CBE, Dame Evelyn Glennie, John Wallace CBE, Nicholas Daniel, Rolf Hind, David Campbell, Psappha, the Arditti, Bingham, Silesian and Tippett Quartets, Southbank and Britten Sinfonias, Cantus Ansambl, East London Music Group and London Sinfonietta. He has a particular interest in opera, and his first opera, The Fisherman, was premiered to wide critical acclaim in a production for the London International Opera Festival. Opera Magazine described Paul as ‘our latest operatic prodigy’. He has been Composer in Residence for the London Chamber Orchestra 2016-2017. His recent opera Frida, which sets the diary of Frida Kahlo, was premiered to much acclaim at Oxford Festival of the Arts in 2019, with BBC Cardiff Singer of the World prize winner Katie Bray as Frida. Paul’s works have been broadcast on BBC 2, BBC Radio 3, as well as on Radio and Television abroad. A Fellow of the Independent Society of Musicians, Paul is a member and/or trustee of several musical boards including City Music Foundation. He was founding Chair of Ora Singers, helping establish it as the world's leading commissioner of new works for choral music.
Published by Composers Edition - https://composersedition.com/paulmaxedlin/ Composer of serious contemporary classical music. Genres include: Opera, Ballet, Orchestral, Ensemble, Chamber, Instrumental, Electronic. Performers include: Arditti Quartet, Alison Balsom OBE, Mark Bebbington, Britten Sinfonia, David Campbell, Cantus Ansambl, Dame Sarah Connolly CBE, Nicholas Daniel, Sarah Field, Fine Arts Brass, Maciej Grzybowski, Dame Evelyn Glennie, Rolf Hind, Johannes Moller, Huw Morgan, London Sinfonietta, Olga Pasiecznik, Robert Plane, Psappha, Silesian Quartet, Southbank Sinfonia, Gabriella Swallow, Tippett Quartet, John Wallace, Wallace Collection, Tricia Dawn Williams Broadcasts on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 2 (TV)
Composer in Residence to London Chamber Orchestra's Music Junction programme, culminating in a new work for the LCO together with over one hundred young people in the LCO's 2017 season of concerts at the Cadogan Hall, London.