Ed Windels
New York City-based composer, orchestrator and arranger ED WINDELS enjoys writing new concert music for all genres and mediums, with a particular fondness for art song. Concurrently his admiration for and experience with the musical theater has resulted in an additional career as an orchestrator and arranger.
Recent commissions include a song cycle for Bargemusic’s Here And Now series, a piano solo piece for his alma mater The Mannes College of Music, Peal Off for Chicago’s Gaudete Brass Quintet, a duo for violas for Michael Hall, and a bass oboe sonata for British reed virtuoso Mikey Sluman.
Recently completed projects include a setting for tenor and large orchestra of John Hollander’s Summer Day, and an edition of Richard Strauss’s notoriously large-scale opera Elektra for 32 instruments. A version of Gilbert and Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, re-arranged and re-orchestrated in a 1920’s jazz idiom, premiered in February 2018 by its commissioner, Edmonton Opera in Alberta, Canada. And in October of 2020, Ed provided arrangements and orchestrations for Twilight: Gods, Michigan Opera Theater’s reimagining of Gotterdammerung directed by Yuval Sharon, chosen by The New York Times as one of the best Classical Music events of 2020.
When not running his virtual assistance and administration business, Ed devotes time as co-founder and co-producer of Broadway Belts for PFF!, an annual fundraiser for the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation featuring major Broadway talent.
MM from the Mannes College of Music, NYC.