BETH HIGHAM -EDWARDS
Percussionist
Beth most recently held the percussion/bodhrán chair on the UK & Ireland tour of the musical Come From Away (2024 - 25).
Recent theatre credits include; The Tempest, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Henry V (dep), and Othello at Shakespeare’s Globe, Amadeus, Common, and Twelfth Night (dep) at The National Theatre, The Mirror and the Light and Pericles (dep) for RSC, and Inala (West End and international tour). Beth was music director on The Tempest and deputy MD on King Lear, Macbeth and Othello.
As a recording session artist, Beth has recorded for: sample library Orchestral Tools, composer Richard Harvey/West One Music Group, BBC Radio 4 production of Mother Courage, the RSC's production of The Mirror and the Light, a film version of La Boheme (for which she was also the orchestral fixer), mercury prize winning band Alt J, Cheryl Frances-Hoad for Champs Hill Records and Charlotte Harding for Nonclassical.
Beth has performed live with bands including Alterbridge, Bring Me the Horizon, Architects, Blanco White (synths, BV, and percussion) and Fionn Regan. Beth has recently worked with the BBC Singers, Paraorchestra, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, and the London Contemporary Orchestra.
Beth trained for a Masters at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where she achieved an MPerf at Disctinction level, and for an undergraduate in Music (performance and composition) at the University of Birmingham where she received a first class BMus hons. Beth is the co-recipient of the RPS ABO Salomon Prize 2021, and is on the board of trustees with the National Children's Orchestra