As well as singing, Ed conducts a local Birmingham choir, the Half Circle Singers and the New Streetly Youth Orchestra, and has been Musical Director for COMIC Amateur Dramatic Society, based in Clent for their production of The Addam's Family. He also studied and currently teaches the double bass, having played with the Conservatoire’s Symphony orchestra as an undergraduate and with the CBSO Youth orchestra for five years. His composition of a fanfare for the BCU (UCE) graduation ceremonies, Antiphonality was used for six years and he has received commissions for choral works from the Crescent Theatre and conductor Paul Spicer for the Conservatoire Chamber Choir.