Ed Hughes (b. 1968) is a composer and a lecturer in the Music Department at Sussex University. Commissions from 2004-5 included Memory of Colour for the Brighton Festival and an opera (The Birds) for the City of London Festival and The Opera Group. Memory of Colour was nominated for a British Academy Composers’ Award (New Media section). The Birds was awarded the Gresham College Prize and was profiled live on BBC Radio 3 with extracts performed by the cast. In 2006 he was the composer on an AHRC funded project Hearing Voices which explored the roles of the voice and electronics in music theatre. Since 2004 his work has toured internationally to the Sydney and Salamanca Festivals and nationally to major UK festivals including Cheltenham and Buxton. He has written several live performance scores for films including Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin, Ozu’s I Was Born, But..., Mitry’s Pacific 231, and Ivens’s Rain, and has worked on Playing a Part: The Story of Claude Cahun (a recent documentary by Lizzie Thynne). He is working on a new live performance score for Eisenstein’s Strike! which will be premiered in full at London's Barbican Centre in 2007 prior to an Arts Council of England funded UK tour. The first section of this work was recently recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio 3’s Hear and Now programme. Visit his website for more information.