Edward Gregson
Edward Gregson ( born July 23, 1945 in Sunderland, England) is an English composer.
At age 8 he got his first piano lessons. He came in contact with the brass bands of the Salvation Army and the Tottenham Citadel joined band. His first attempts at composition for piano, he started at age 11. In 1963 he began his studies at the Royal Academy of Music. There, Frederick Durant he mediated the necessary for composing armor and convinced him to take up further studies in piano and composition with Alan Bush. Already at the Academy, he won several composition awards, most recently the Quintet for Brass, that he composed for the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. He also got in touch with Geoffrey Brand and encouraged him to write several pieces for brass band. Thus, the range of the Brass Band began in 1966 with compositions Concertante for Piano and Brass Band The first actual work was Suite - Voices of Youth 1967.
He is a senior lecturer in Music at Goldsmiths College in London.