Edward Barnes (born December 16, 1958) is an American composer and producer.
Edward Barnes studied music composition at the Juilliard School with composers Vincent Persichetti and David Diamond and at the Dartington Hall in Great Britain with composer-conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Early in his career he established himself as an opera composer, working in Boston as resident composer of Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston and later at the Los Angeles Opera. For the Los Angeles Opera he wrote and music-directed his original operas "A Muskrat Lullaby", "A Place To Call Home", as well as the opera revue "Murder at the Opera", a co-commission from the Los Angeles Opera and Houston Grand Opera. His interest in theater and musical theater led him to found The Metro Ensemble, a new musical theater group based in Los Angeles for whom he created the critically acclaimed shows "The Vagabond Queen", "Old Aunt Dinah’s Sure Guide To Dreams & Lucky Numbers", and "The Bones of Love". Other theater work has included scores for Lincoln Center Theater, Bay Street Theater, Children’s Theater Company of Minneapolis, and the Directors Company. He received a Drama Desk nomination for his co-adaptation of the Vortex Theater's off-Broadway production of "HMS Pinafore" in 2007. A resident artist at the Ucross Foundation, the Instituto Sacatar in Brazil, and the Fundacion Valparaiso in Spain, he is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Stephen Sondheim Award.
In recent years, Barnes has begun working as a producer of theatrical and concert events in New York City. He was associate producer of both Scott Joplin's "Treemonisha" and Philip Glass's "The Juniper Tree" for the Collegiate Chorale at Lincoln Center, and coordinating producer of the NY Premiere of Leonard Bernstein's "A White House Cantata" at Jazz at Lincoln Center. He recently produced the Kurt Weill-Ira Gershwin operetta, "The Firebrand of Florence", at the newly renovated Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, featuring Nathan Gunn, Anna Christy, Victoria Clark, Terrence Mann and David Pittu, to great critical acclaim. He has a regular staff producing position with the Collegiate Chorale in New York City, and previously held a staff producing position with the Night Kitchen Radio Theater on XM Satellite Radio. He is currently the coordinating producer of a series of musicals-in-concert at the Teatro Maipu in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Barnes lives in New York City and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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