Composer of
  contemporary
  classical music

Born in 1986, Edward Nesbit graduated from Cambridge University in June 2007 with a first class honours degree in music, winning in 2005 the Donald Wort prize for scoring the highest mark in the university.  Edward then studied for two years with Julian Anderson at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama; he completed a Masters degree in composition with distinction in 2008, winning the Ian Horsburgh Memorial Prize for the best postgraduate composition; he subsequently became a fellow at Guildhall, and curated the 2009 Guildhall New Music Festival.

He has participated in many composition courses, including the 2009 Britten-Pears Contemporary Composition and Performance Course, studying with Oliver Knussen, Colin Matthews and Magnus Lindberg; the 2009 Lake District Summer Music Festival 4x4 Composer Residency with John Casken; the 2010 Centre Acanthes Composition Workshop with Beat Furrer, Hanspeter Kyburz and Tristan Murail; the 2010 London Symphony Orchestra Panufnik Scheme with James MacMillan; the 2010-11 Philharmonia Young Composers' Academy with Julian Anderson, as a result of winning the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize; the 2011 Centre Acanthes Composition Workshop with Unsuk Chin, Philippe Hurel and Oscar Strasnoy; and Roche Continents 2011.

His works have been performed by groups such as the London Symphony Orchestra, Guildhall Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de Lorraine, the Britten-Pears Composers Ensemble, Lontano, the Orlando Consort and members of the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pierre-Andre Valade in venues including Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall; his work has also been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is currently working towards a PhD at King's College, London, studying with George Benjamin.