Ed is an entrepreneur and musician. He co-founded Greenwich Music School in 2016 with his wife, Bethan Scolding.

His early portfolio career as a composer included extensive collaborations with performers and commissions for concert, film and radio; music teaching and workshop leading, and examining internationally for Trinity College of Music Rock & Pop syllabus.

Ed’s music for film, opera, dance, theatre, orchestra, choir and chamber ensembles has been described as “subtle and polished” by Bachtrack and “succinct, witty and apt” by the Norwich Evening News. His work has been performed by ensembles including EXAUDI, Music Theatre Wales, Ayre Flutes, the London Sinfonietta and the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, with extracts broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Wales.

He won the Nonclassical Composition Competition, and pieces are published by Boosey & Hawkes. His collaborative projects include BRUT, created with choreographer Peter Groom for the Royal Philharmonic Society and IdeasTap, and the short opera Adrift, written with librettist Shaun Gardiner and produced by Gestalt Arts. His soundtrack for the feature film Mile End won Best Feature Film Score at the International Music+Sound Awards, and is published by Warner Music Group’s W Songs.

Ed previously led marketing and record-label management for the award-winning composition company John Hardy Music and its sister label, Ffin Records. As Assistant Head of Music at The Conservatoire, he helped develop its Saturday Music School, GCSE and A-level music and music technology courses, partnership projects and strategic planning. His education work has included ambitious interdisciplinary projects combining music with dance, film, visual art and theatre.

His strategic and governance experience includes serving two terms on the board of the Independent Society of Musicians (ISM), with a particular interest in its professional development programme for musicians.

Ed holds an MMus with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music and a first-class BMus (Hons) from the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama.