Tom Edney

Tom is a musicologist, conductor, singer and editor. His PhD research focuses on the choral-orchestral works in Britain in the post-war period, namely Herbert Howells’s Stabat Mater. He is supervised by Prof. Robert Adlington, Dr Jonathan Clinch, and Prof. David Wright and has been published in the British Music Journal. His broader research interest includes British twentieth-century music, as well as combining his work as a practitioner and academic. He has previously studied at Cambridge and Newcastle, where he has studied conducting and musicology. 

Alongside his PhD research, Tom has also taken on a significant project in collaboration with the RCM, working on the orchestral manuscripts of Avril Coleridge-Taylor (currently held in the RCM archive), typesetting and editing pieces for performance. He also works as a freelance orchestrator and editor, working with groups such as Northern Opera Group, Winchester College Chapel Choir, and Sing for Pleasure. 

Tom also has a successful career as a conductor, conducting a variety of choirs across the country, including being the artistic director of Vox Populi and musical director of the Durham Singers. Upcoming engagements include recordings of Howells’s upper-voices partsongs, and Oliver Tarney’s The Night Before Christmas. He is committed to inspiring a love of music in all, regardless of ability and background, and this is reflected in his diverse portfolio of work as an academic and practitioner. 

Faculties / departments: Research

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