ARTIST PROFILE:
Ed Bennett

Irish composer Ed Bennett’s music is performed and broadcast in over 30 countries in venues including New York’s Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center, London’s Barbican and South Bank Centres and the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. Over the last 25 years he has created a substantial body of work for a variety of contexts including those for the concert hall, opera, dance, installation  and film. Recent highlights include “Psychedelia” for the RTÉ NSO and Thomas Adès, “Ausland” for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Reinbert de Leeuw, “Song of the Books” for Crash Ensemble and five critically-acclaimed portrait discs of his work.

He directs his 10-piece ensemble Decibel, described in The Quietus as “blending the coiled concentration of the best post-minimalism with the ferocity and dynamic range of thrash metal.” His recent portrait CD “Psychedelia” (2020) was described in the Sunday Times as “ebullient, deeply compelling music” and featured in the New York Times as one of their recommended releases of 2020, whilst the Guardian described his work as “unclassifiable, raw-nerve music of huge energy and imagination.”