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Artist Profile - Edward Tait

Edward Tait is an emerging British composer, currently studying at the Royal Academy of Music, under the tutelage of Gareth Moorcraft and Louise Drewett. His music has received performances at the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square, and Westminster Abbey, as well as by award-winning ensembles like the London Sinfonietta, Carducci Quartet, Orion Orchestra, and Lloyd’s Choir.

Edward previously studied with Jacques Cohen at the Purcell School of Music, and upon graduation, received the school’s Tim Stevenson Prize for Outstanding Composition. He also recently won 1st Prize in the Composition category of the Tiziano Rossetti Competition, and he is currently working on a symphonic suite, which was commissioned by the Chorleywood Orchestra.

Music Catalogue

• Novelette (Op. 1)
  for cello & piano
  
• Piano Quintet No. 1 (Op. 2)
  
• Ghostly Dance (Op. 3)
  for clarinet quintet
  
• Variations on a Theme from Mary Poppins (Op. 4)
  for solo cello
  
• Trireme (Op. 5)
  for orchestra
  
• Fantasia for Four Hands (Op. 6)
  
• British Fantasia (Op. 7)
  for wind quintet
  
• The Night Hunter (Op. 8)
  for chamber ensemble
  
• Starry Night (Op. 9)
  for violin, viola & piano
  
• Seven Note Fanfare (Op. 10)
  for 2 trumpets & violin
  
• Prelude for Violin and Piano (Op. 11)
  
• Rondo for String Quartet (Op. 12)
  
• Piano Sonata No. 1 (Op. 13)
  
• Jazz Elegy (Op. 14)
  for solo piano
  
• Alpenhornhymne (Op. 15)
  for brass trio
  
• Prelude in C minor (Op. 16)
  for solo piano
  
• Glenealo (Op. 17)
  for string orchestra
  
• Passacaglia for Wind Quintet (Op. 18)
  
• Mo Li Hua (Op. 19)
  for orchestra
  
• Two Sketches Written from the Dartmouth Steam Railway (Op. 20)
  for solo piano
  
• Fugue for String Trio (Op. 21)
  
• Soundtrack to Caledonian Voyage (Op. 22)
  for solo piano
  
• Quartet for the End of the Day (Op. 23)
  for clarinet quartet
  
• Engine (Op. 24)
  for mixed percussion
  
• Elegy for Violin and Guitar (Op. 25)
  
• Macbeth (Op. 26)
  for orchestra
  
• Full Fathom Five (Op. 27)
  for SATB choir
  
• It was a lover and his lass (Op. 28)
  for SATB choir
  
• Soundtrack to Le Voyage dans la Lune (Op. 29)
  for chamber orchestra
  
• Lincoln's Speech (Op. 30)
  for snare drum & piano
  
• Take, O Take (Op. 31)
  for baritone & guitar
  
• Echoes of War (Op. 32)
  for solo piano
  
• One Spirit Voice (Op. 33)
  for electronics
  
• Passage of Time (Op. 34)
  for string quartet
  
• Interlude for Piano Trio (Op. 35)
  
• Arrangement of Waltzing Matilda (Op. 36)
  for chamber ensemble
  
• Fantasia No. 1 for Piano (Op. 37)
  
• Herbstlied (Op. 38)
  for solo piano
  
• Arrangement of The Planets (Op. 39)
  for solo piano
  
• Hunstanton Prelude (Op. 40)
  for chamber ensemble
  
• String Trio No. 1 (Op. 41)
  
• Allegretto for Clarinet and Piano (Op. 42)
  
• Crenark Hill (Op. 43)
  for orchestra
  
• Viennese Autumn Waltz (Op. 44)
  for string quartet
  
• Fantasia-Elegy (Op. 45)
  for clarinet & piano
  
• Fleeting Manhattan (Op. 46)
  for orchestra
  
• Eclogue (Op. 47)
  for wind quintet
  
• Arrangement of Empire of the Sun (Op. 48)
  for violin & piano
  
• In Memoriam Lulu (Op. 49)
  for solo piano
  
• EDTA (Op. 50)
  for cello, piano & snare drum
  
• Three Scottish Dances (Op. 51)
  for oboe quartet
  
• Barton Coast (Op. 52)
  for saxophone quartet
  
• Ash Grove (Op. 53)
  for chamber orchestra
  
• Rhapsody for Sextet (Op. 54)
  for chamber ensemble
  
• Lillibulero (Op. 55)
  for solo piano
  
• Capriccio (Op. 56)
  for bassoon duo
  
• Ballade (Op. 57)
  for clarinet trio
  
• Glitter Is Not Gold (Op. 58)
  for solo cello
  
• In the Bleak Midwinter (Op. 59)
  for SATB choir
  
• Pervasion (Op. 60)
  for solo clarinet
  
• Ten Cycles (Op. 61)
  for solo flute
  
• Chamber Concerto (Op. 62)
  for chamber orchestra
  
• Ecstasio (Op. 63)
  for cello octet
  
• Star of the East (Op. 64)
  for SSAATTBB choir
  
• HexRAMeron Variation and Fugue (Op. 65)
  for six-hand piano
  
• Minuet on a Theme by Ravel (Op. 66)
  for solo viola
  
• Triptych (Op. 67)
  for solo violin
  
• Ignited (Op. 68)
  for solo bassoon
  
• Minuet or Trio? (Op. 69)
  for 2 violins, cello & harpsichord
  
• Three Intermezzi (Op. 70)
  for solo piano
  
• Reverie (Op. 71)
  for solo harp
  
• Fruhlingslied (Op. 72)
  for solo piano
  
• The Story of Music (Op. 73)
  for mixed quartet
  
• Bullseye! (Op. 74)
  for solo piano
  
• Ballade (Op. 75)
  for violin & piano
  
• Sonata for Solo Clarinet (Op. 76)
  
• Shifting (Op. 77)
  for string trio
  
• Family Mix-Up (Op. 78)
  for oboe & piano
  
• Peter Pan (Op. 79)
  for orchestra
  
• Elegy (Op. 80)
  for six-hand piano
  
• Four Miniatures for Alto Flute (Op. 81)
  

Literary Catalogue

• The Windigo (N. 1)
  Narrative poem
  
• Highbury (N. 2)
  Children's fiction book
  
• Maurice Ravel: Beyond the Genre (N. 3)
  Musical magazine article
  
• The Indefinite Hold (N. 4)
  Miniature poem
  
• An Impression of Nature? (N. 5)
  Miniature poem