Ed Hughes has been commissioned by numerous organisations and ensembles, including The Opera Group, Brighton Festival and London Sinfonietta; performances have included City of London Festival, Buxton Opera House, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Linbury Studio Theatre, Jerusalem Music Centre, Salamanca Festival and Sydney Festival. His scores for silent films by Eisenstein and Ozu have been released by Tartan and BFI on DVD. ‘Auditorium' for Glyndebourne Education, a collaboration with photographer Sophie Rickett performed live at Glyndebourne by Sussex Downs Youth Orchestra, continues to tour internationally as an installation. Current projects include a music theatre work inspired by French surrealist Jean Cocteau and ‘Dark Formations', a collaborative project with David Chandler, Professor of Photography at the University of Plymouth and former Director of Photoworks, and the Imperial War Museum, which evokes the experience of pilots involved in wartime bombing raids using sound archives and spatial treatments of live performance. The first part of this project premiered in September 2010 at Kings Place and was profiled on BBC South TV news. He is a Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Sussex and is artistic director of The New Music Players. www.edhughes.org.uk