Michael D Edwards: biography

Michael D Edwards (Cheshire, England, UK, 1968)
• composer

Michael Edwards was born in Cheshire, England in 1968. After taking oboe lessons he began composing, studying with Adrian Beaumont at Bristol University. He graduated with first class honors in 1989 and stayed on at Bristol to complete a Master of Music degree which was awarded in 1992. During this time he also studied privately with Gwyn Pritchard and Simon Bainbridge, and undertook an investigation of electroacoustic techniques. Michael moved to California in 1991 for further studies in computer music with John Chowning at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University. He graduated from Stanford with a doctorate in composition in 1996.