Originally a treble at Bath Abbey, Edmund then went on to sing at King’s College, Cambridge and New College, Oxford, followed by further study at the Royal Academy of Music with Ryland Davies and Dominic Wheeler.

 His operatic experience is extensive, from the title role in Orfeo  to creating the role of Gabriel in Hagar in the Wilderness by Sally Beamish for the Presteigne Festival. Other opera includes Sailor Dido and Aeneas (Academy of Ancient Music), Remendado Carmen (OperaUpClose), Offenbach’s Vert-Vert (cover Vert-Vert) for Garsington Opera, Harlekin Der Kaiser Von Atlantis (Grimeborn Opera Festival), Cinea Cajo Fabricio for the London Handel Festival, Arioch Belshazzar (Theatre du Capitole, Toulouse), Jupiter Semele, and Lysander Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shadwell Opera).

 With an extensive performing repertory, encompassing the majority of the oratorio canon, Edmund began his concert career in 2008, singing Bach cantatas with Laurence Cummings at the Barbican. Since then, he has worked with many leading conductors, including Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Richard Egarr, Paul McCreesh and René Jacobs, performing in venues such as the Wigmore Hall, The Chapel of Kings College, Cambridge, St George's Bristol and Saint John’s, Smith Square. He has performed live on BBC R3 and has recorded Monteverdi Vespers with Fiori Musicali.

 Concert appearances include the first performance of Handel’s Messiah in Goa with the Symphony Orchestra of India, a WW1 anthology tour in Picardie with Tcheky Karyo, a song recital at the Parisian British Ambassadorial Residence with Matthew Fletcher, Bach B Minor Mass (Bristol Bach Choir), Bach St Matthew Passion arias (Israel Camerata), Bach St John Passion Evangelist with the choir of Christ’s College, Cambridge and Mozart Requiem (St Martin in the Fields).