Ed Hughes has recently completed major commissions from the City of London Festival (an opera The Birds) and the Brighton Festival (including a new score to Sergei Eisenstein’s classic silent film Battleship Potemkin). These works have toured to the Salamanca Festival (2005) and to the Sydney Festival (2005) in the Sydney Opera House. Memory of Colour was subsequently shortlisted for a British Composer Award. He was commissioned by Glyndebourne Opera and Photoworks to write a new orchestral score to the Sophy Rickett film (commissioned simultaneously) about Glyndebourne entitled 'AUDITORIUM'. The joint work premiered live at Glyndebourne on 17 November 2007 and was installed at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, prior to an international tour. AUDITORIUM was shortlisted for a British Composer Award in 2008. Ed's opera Cocteau in the Underworld, with a libretto by Roger Morris, is currently in development with the Royal Opera House OperaGenesis programme. His work continues to be widely performed and broadcast.