Edmund Jolliffe

Composer

The music of Edmund Jolliffe draws on a huge range of styles and influences. He is equally at home writing for film/tv and the concert hall.

Recent commissions include pieces for the ABRSM, the Royal Academy of Music (Bicentenary Commission), The London Chinese Children’s Ensemble, Odense Percussion and The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music (for a live broadcast on BBC Radio 3). Prizes include first prize at the 40th Ithaca College Choral Composition Competition, The Kantos Choir Competition, and the Freudig Singers Choral Composition Competition. His music is published by Hal Leonard, Oxford University Press, Stainer & Bell,ABRSM (where his compositions are set pieces for piano and clarinet grade exams), Edition Svitzer, Banks Music, and Tetractys.

Edmund has been writing music to picture for twenty years. Major television series he has composed music for include “Who do you think you are?”, “The Traitors”, “Sort your life out” (BBC1), “The Great War: The People’s Story”, “Long Lost Family” (ITV1), “Homestead Rescue” (Discovery),”Crazy Delicious” (C4/Netflix), and “Unreported World” (C4).

Edmund studied music at Oxford University and completed a Masters in Film Composition at the Royal College of Music under Joseph Horovitz and Academy Award winner Dario Marianelli. He also studied on the Advanced Composition Course at Dartington International Summer School and has attended composer residencies at the Banff Centre, Canada (Gladys and Merrill Muttart foundation scholarship), the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, New Mexico and the Anderson Center, Minnesota. He is a fellow of the ISM and a full member of the PRS and MCPS.

He taught composition for many years at the Royal Academy of Music and Trinity College of Music (Junior Departments) and also lectured in Composing for the Moving Image at City University.

More information about Edmund can be found at www.edmundjolliffe.com.