The Official Website of Edward Tait

About Edward

Edward Tait is a British composer, studying at the Royal Academy of Music, with Gareth Moorcraft and Louise Drewett. His music has been performed across the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States, at venues including the Royal Festival Hall, St John’s Smith Square and Westminster Abbey. He has also received performances by renowned ensembles like the London Sinfonietta, Carducci Quartet, Orion Orchestra and Lloyd’s Choir, and won the NCEM Young Composer Award in 2026.

Edward is the artistic director of the MetroLand Music Festival, and he is currently composing a song cycle, based on original texts by Mollie Mardel.

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Upcoming Events

The Clements Prize for Composers: Semifinal Workshop
10am ▪ May 7th 2026
Conway Hall, London (UK)
Workshop of Engineer’s Paradise for four-hand piano

Forgotten Melodies Society: Music of War
7pm ▪ May 8th 2026
Leighton House, Holland Park, London (UK)
Premiere of Ashes Beneath the Ice for cello and piano

Chorleywood Choral Society
May 9th 2026
St Mary the Virgin, Old Amersham (UK)
Singing in Brahms Deutsches Requiem

Trinity Orchestra
7:30pm ▪ May 16th 2026
St Edmund’s Church, Northwood (UK)
Playing Percussion in Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Heatherton Singers
3pm ▪ May 17th 2026
St Peter's & St Paul's Church, Great Missenden (UK)
Performing Schumann ‘Herberge’ from Waldszenen and Brahms Intermezzo Op. 116 No. 6
Accompanying Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree and Morricone/Ferraù Nella fantasia, and more...

Heatherton Singers: A Spring Concert
7pm ▪ May 23rd 2026
Homer Green Methodist Church, Holmer Green (UK)
Performing Schumann ‘Herberge’ from Waldszenen and Brahms Intermezzo Op. 116 No. 6
Accompanying Rachel Portman The Gathering Tree and Morricone/Ferraù Nella fantasia, and more...

Rose Opera: Manon Lescaut (1/5)
2pm ▪ May 30th 2026
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington (UK)
Playing Percussion in Puccini Manon Lescaut

Rose Opera: Manon Lescaut (2/5)
3pm ▪ May 31th 2026
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington (UK)
Playing Percussion in Puccini Manon Lescaut

Rose Opera: Manon Lescaut (3/5)
2pm ▪ June 6th 2026
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington (UK)
Playing Percussion in Puccini Manon Lescaut

Rose Opera: Manon Lescaut (4/5)
7pm ▪ June 6th 2026
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington (UK)
Playing Percussion in Puccini Manon Lescaut

Rose Opera: Manon Lescaut (5/5)
3pm ▪ June 7th 2026
Normansfield Theatre, Teddington (UK)
Playing Percussion in Puccini Manon Lescaut

Music for You: Beacon Duo Lunchtime Concert
1pm ▪ June 11th 2026
United Reformed Church, Beaconsfield (UK)
Programme:
Brahms Scherzo from ‘FAE’ Sonata
Edward Tait Ballade
Elgar Violin Sonata

Woodside Summer Recital: The Morassi String Quartet
4pm ▪ June 14th 2026
Free Church, Amersham (UK)
Performance of Passage of Time for string quartet

Music at St Michael’s: Solo Lunchtime Recital
1:30pm ▪ June 17th 2026
St Michael’s Church, Highgate (UK)
Programme:
Ravel Sonatine
Liszt ‘Orage’ from Années de pèlerinage
Edward Tait Cloches I
Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4

Pimlico Lunchtime Concerts Series: Solo Recital
1:15pm ▪ June 26th 2026
St Saviour’s Church, Pimlico (UK)
Programme:
Ravel Sonatine
Liszt ‘Orage’ from Années de pèlerinage
Edward Tait Cloches I-III
Brahms Intermezzo Op. 116 No. 6
Scriabin Piano Sonata No. 4

London Doctors Orchestra and Choir: Summer Concert
7pm ▪ June 27th 2026
St James Sussex Gardens, London (UK)
Singing in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor The Death of Minnehaha
Playing Percussion in Saint-Saëns Danse macabre

Chorleywood Orchestra: Tchaikovsky, Bruch, Elgar
7pm ▪ July 4th 2026
Venue TBA
Playing Percussion in Tchaikovsky Romeo and Juliet Overture and Elgar Enigma Variations

The Purcell School: Sumer is i-cumen in
5pm ▪ July 8th 2026
Constance Pilkington Hall, Purcell School of Music (UK)
Premiere of Variation on Sumer is i-cumen in