Eden Longson
Eden Longson is a composer, arranger, and drummer based in London who creates music that combines his love of jazz and contemporary classical music into a sound world all his own. Eden studied Music at the University of Liverpool before obtaining two postgraduate degrees in Composition from the Royal Northern College of Music.
Alongside writing music for his band The Mighty Thunderwells, as well as several short films, Eden has been commissioned to write music for the 2022 RPS Henderson Chamber Ensemble Award winners Northern Reeds, the 2022 Manchester Connect Chamber Festival string orchestra, as well as the Talland Quartet for performance in the 2023 Enys Chamber Festival. Eden has also written music for the Band of the RAF College which was performed in the 2023 National Concert Band Festival where Eden was awarded the NCBF Young Composer of the Year for his work 'Topple the Acropolis'.
Eden has many roots in Manchester, especially at the Royal Northern College of Music where he wrote music for the RNCM Wind Orchestra, Saxophone Orchestra, and Brand New Orchestra. Other Manchester outfits such as clarinet/cello combo The Off-Piste duo, the Tangent Wind Quintet, and the Rosamund Brass Quartet have commissioned Eden to write music for them. When the Off-Piste duo premiered Eden's piece 'Swimming in a Fish Bowl' in March of 2023, a young clarinet student in the audience claimed the piece was her 'favourite of the concert'.
Eden is constantly writing new music and working with various musicians, and will endeavour to make available all of the music on Universal Edition so that soloists, chamber and large ensembles can all enjoy playing his music.