Graduating from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2004, today Ed Puddick is an award-winning jazz arranger and composer, having taken home the Arranging Prize at the 2018 Barga International Jazz Festival with his arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie’s Con Alma, performed by US trumpeter Jeremy Pelt and the Barga Jazz Festival Orchestra. 

Ed has received commissions from many ensembles, including the BBC Concert Orchestra (featuring Yazz Ahmed), Orquestra de Jazz do Algarve (Portugal), Sydney Jazz Orchestra (Australia), Bradfield College Big Band (featuring Alec Dankworth), the London Jazz Orchestra, NYJO, National Youth Jazz Wales and the Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra. In 2021 Ed recorded the album CRAZY DAYS (ATS-Records) with the Upper Austrian Jazz Orchestra.  Available in the UK from Presto Music here.

Ed has been commissioned to write music for large-scale projects including Back To The Blues (Paul Dunmall, 2023), Movement Inspired (Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games), Soultime Suite (Paul Dunmall, 2019), Music Hall Memories (Greater Manchester Music Hub, 2019), One Universal Shout (Bridgewater Hall, 2019), Beyond Wigan Pier (Alan Gregory, 2018), Another Kind Of Imagination (Greater Manchester Music Hub, 2016), Near Horizons (Joe Allard Commission, 2015) and Secret Music (Music For Youth, 2014).  

Other significant works include Saratoga Springs (2011, featuring Australian multi-instrumentalist James Morrison), Only Thelonious Suite (Ed Puddick Big Band, 2017), The Twisted Wheel in 2016 (2016, featuring US saxophonist Eric Marienthal) and Guys & Dolls Suite (2005, Ed Puddick Big Band, released on Diving Duck Records, 2010). 

Before taking up his current lectureship at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Ed taught jazz composition and arranging at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for 14 years. He also sat on the IVORS Academy Jazz Committee for 6 years.