About
Ed is a conductor, a jazz musician, a pianist, a singer, a researcher, a writer and a teacher. Also a determined advocate of new music of all genres and of new ways of making music, his influences are many and varied and he is committed to bringing that ideological variety into everything he does as a conductor.
Conductor, jazz trumpeter, pianist, singer, researcher, teacher and writer, Ed Liebrecht is increasingly active as a conductor in the United Kingdom and in The Netherlands, with recent projects including assisting Kevin John Edusei with the London Symphony Orchestra, Clark Rundell with Asko | Schönberg and Jac van Steen with Ensemble Kontraste in Nürnberg. Ed is currently studying on the Dutch National Masters in Orchestral Conducting, where his mentors are Ed Spanjaard, Jac van Steen and Kenneth Montgomery. In July 2021 he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where he studied with Sian Edwards, and was awarded the Fred Southall Prize and Distinction for his final exam. In various contexts, Ed has conducted the London Symphony Orchestra, the Residentie Orkest, Philharmonie ZuidNederland, the Orchestra of The 18th Century, Ensemble Kontraste, the Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra, Oxford University Orchestra, the Salomon Orchestra, Central London Orchestra and St Giles Orchestra.
Ed’s current projects include assisting Anja Bihlmaier on a programme including Fazil Say’s Silk Road piano concerto with the Residentie Orkest, assisting Antony Hermus on a programme of Debussy and Mahler with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, and, in January, working with John Wilson and the Dutch National Youth Orchestra on Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony. Recent projects include recording the first movement of Ed’s completion of Mahler’s 10th Symphony and three successful concerts with his own orchestra, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, in London. Earlier this year, Ed conducted world premières by YuHng Ng and Joseph Howard, a series of new works for brass ensemble and, in The Netherlands, has been involved with a number of projects including new music. Ed is determined to continue with this, and working with composers is a very important part of his practice.
Since 2019 Ed has assisted a wide range of conductors, including Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Robert Trevino, Natalia Luis Bassa, Jan Latham König, Peter Whelan, Ed Spanjaard and Trevor Pinnock, as well as Robert Trevino with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral player and in masterclasses he has worked with conductors including Jamie Phillips, Holly Mathieson, Johannes Wildner, Peter Stark, Duncan Ward, Paul Daniel and many others. He counts amongst his most influential mentors Sian Edwards, Martyn Brabbins, Nicholas Cleobury and Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
Ed is the founder of two successful orchestras. As an undergraduate he founded the ensemble that is now Gustav Mahler Orchestra, specialising in reduced forces performances of Mahler but which also collaborated with composers Joanna Ward and Ruari Paterson-Achenbach. It was with that ensemble that Ed conducted his own completion of Mahler's 10th Symphony along with many other concerts. He was also a prize-winner in the University’s Conducting Competition, which led to him conducting the Wind Orchestra’s season from 2019-2020.
In 2014 he co-founded Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra with the composer Matthew Holmes, with whom he conducted six successful concerts including many world premières. Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra hosted a new music lunchtime concert series, coordinated by the founders. Since many of the players are now spread out across the UK, many of them in professional music, the organisation has shifted to fund similar projects around the country.
Ed is determined to see a world where music can appeal to everyone, be an important part of the wider picture politically, environmentally and socially, and where any type of music can meaningfully coexist.
Ed’s current projects include assisting Anja Bihlmaier on a programme including Fazil Say’s Silk Road piano concerto with the Residentie Orkest, assisting Antony Hermus on a programme of Debussy and Mahler with the Noord Nederlands Orkest, and, in January, working with John Wilson and the Dutch National Youth Orchestra on Rachmaninov’s Second Symphony. Recent projects include recording the first movement of Ed’s completion of Mahler’s 10th Symphony and three successful concerts with his own orchestra, Gustav Mahler Orchestra, in London. Earlier this year, Ed conducted world premières by YuHng Ng and Joseph Howard, a series of new works for brass ensemble and, in The Netherlands, has been involved with a number of projects including new music. Ed is determined to continue with this, and working with composers is a very important part of his practice.
Since 2019 Ed has assisted a wide range of conductors, including Sir Mark Elder, Edward Gardner, Robert Trevino, Natalia Luis Bassa, Jan Latham König, Peter Whelan, Ed Spanjaard and Trevor Pinnock, as well as Robert Trevino with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. As an orchestral player and in masterclasses he has worked with conductors including Jamie Phillips, Holly Mathieson, Johannes Wildner, Peter Stark, Duncan Ward, Paul Daniel and many others. He counts amongst his most influential mentors Sian Edwards, Martyn Brabbins, Nicholas Cleobury and Peter Sheppard Skaerved.
Ed is the founder of two successful orchestras. As an undergraduate he founded the ensemble that is now Gustav Mahler Orchestra, specialising in reduced forces performances of Mahler but which also collaborated with composers Joanna Ward and Ruari Paterson-Achenbach. It was with that ensemble that Ed conducted his own completion of Mahler's 10th Symphony along with many other concerts. He was also a prize-winner in the University’s Conducting Competition, which led to him conducting the Wind Orchestra’s season from 2019-2020.
In 2014 he co-founded Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra with the composer Matthew Holmes, with whom he conducted six successful concerts including many world premières. Oxfordshire Festival Orchestra hosted a new music lunchtime concert series, coordinated by the founders. Since many of the players are now spread out across the UK, many of them in professional music, the organisation has shifted to fund similar projects around the country.
Ed is determined to see a world where music can appeal to everyone, be an important part of the wider picture politically, environmentally and socially, and where any type of music can meaningfully coexist.
