Edmund Butt is a highly experienced composer, performer and producer, who was born in Hampton in 1968. He became a chorister at Hampton Court Palace at six and was later appointed head chorister at Windsor Castle where he remained until the age of thirteen. He went on to win a musicscholarship to Charterhouse School and subsequently a double music scholarship (violin & piano) to the Royal College of Music, gaining a first class performers degree as well as a Countess of Munster Scholarship to study in New York & Japan.

At 18, Ed became one of the youngest players to perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and went on to play with the London Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Philharmonia & the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Whilst performing with these world-class orchestras, Ed also worked as a session musician and after playing on the scores to Basic Instinct and The English Patient, he realised he wanted a change in direction; he wanted to write music to picture.

This new journey started by orchestrating for several Hollywood composers on films such as Desperate Measures, Dark City, Merlin and Dangerous Beauty as well as acting as musical director for artists such as Madonna, Puff Daddy and George Martin.

Since then Ed has gone on to write music for many notable film and television dramas and is now one of the most versatile composers in the UK, equally at home with contemporary, symphonic, and intimate scores. Some of his best work has combined all these elements, creating a thrilling and uniquely dramatic style.

Ed wrote a dark, contemporary and epic score to the feature Revelation for Romulus Films and a beautiful score to the BBC/Ariel Films feature True North; following on from this, he is being talked about as one of the most innovative and influential composers of his generation. For the small screen Ed has scored many critically acclaimed dramas including Life On Mars, Afterlife and Murphys Law.