Paul Max EdlinComposer | Artistic Director | Lecturer | Performer
  • Paul Max Edlin has a career that combines composing, lecturing and performing as well as artistic direction.
  • As a composer, his works have been performed by many leading musicians and have been recorded for broadcast both in the UK and abroad.
  • As an Artistic Director he currently leads Deal Festival of Music and the Arts and has led Sounds New Contemporary Music Festival and International Composer Pyramid.
  • As a lecturer, he frequently talks about topics that encompass personal and emotional aspects of composition, relating these to clear, understandable and enjoyable analyses of the music.
  • As a teacher, he has almost thirty years experience in tutoring composers, conductors and trumpeters up to PhD level and beyond. He is Director of Music at Queen Mary University of London.
  • As a performing musician he is an experienced trumpeter (Bb, C, D/Eb, piccolo Bb/A and flugelhorn as well as the baroque/natural trumpet). As a conductor, he has directed ensembles and orchestras, covering baroque to romantic music, but specialising in more contemporary work.

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