Ed Driver (2000-) is a British composer and performer currently studying for a master’s degree in composition with Kenneth Hesketh and Dai Fujikura at the Royal College of Music, where he is an H R Taylor Charitable Trust Scholar and has held a Vaughan Williams Bursary. He won his first composition prize, the Howard Greenwood Composition Award, in 2017. Upon graduation from the University of Birmingham, where he studied with Michael Zev Gordon and Ryan Latimer, Ed was awarded the COMPASS Composition Prize in association with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group. He has worked with a number of leading contemporary ensembles, including the Britten Sinfonia, the BCMG, The Hermes Experiment and the Fidelio Trio. Fascinated by aesthetics, his music often aims to imbue the logic of social-philosophical concepts with a vibrant sense of humour. He is a lover of humorous, colourful, ugly, disgusting, rhizomatic, sparkly, beautiful, viscid, bursting, bubbling, absurd, simulacral, unfolding, permuting, pulsating music.