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Andrew
contributes to CoreSounds from the remote location of Stornoway,
Western Isles, Scotland.
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1962, Andrew studied music at
Napier University in Edinburgh and at the Guildhall School
of Music and Drama in London.
In 1984 he took up the post of Principal Tuba with the Hallé
Orchestra in Manchester, a post he held up until 2000. In
1998 Andrew gave the World Premiere of John Golland’s
Tuba Concerto as a soloist with the Hallé in the
Bridgewater Hall.
The
first major development in his composition career was in 1994
when the Hallé Orchestra gave the premiere of
his Concerto for Trombone with colleague and trombone
virtuoso Andrew Berryman as soloist. He then began
to arrange works for the Hallé, mainly for the regular
Family Concert series. Andrew has had around thirty arrangements
played by the Hallé and other professional orchestras.
Andrew's success writing and arranging for Brass Band is impressive,
particularly in the Spennymore Brass in Concert competition
where Andrew has won the prize for the best new arrangement
or composition for five consecutive years from 1996 -2000.
All these arrangements were subsequently broadcast on BBC
Radio 2.In July 2000 Andrew took on a major commission
from the Hallé Orchestra. He wrote A Tale of Two
Empires, a twenty-six minute work for large orchestra
and Brass Band about the history of Manchester. The first
performance took place in July 2000 with the Hallé
and the Todmorden Old Band conducted by Owain Arwel
Hughes. The piece received further performances in 2001.
Recently Andrew has begun to do a number of arrangements for
the Warner/Chappell Brass band Series. These are all
available from the Lewis
Music Press .
Recent
works :
Java Variations for two Violins, French Horn, Bassoon, Tuba
and percussion
based on a west Javanese folk tune, commissioned by the British
Council for the Jakarta Arts Festival.
Rhapsody
for Tuba, Piano and Wind Orchestra
written for the duet, ‘Travelling by Tuba’ ( Gavin
Woods, Tuba and Stuart Death, Piano ). The first performance
took place at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester
in October 2001. The work recieved it’s first US performance
in Greensboro, North Carolina in May when was played by the
same soloists with the US Army Band.
Moon
Pictures for Brass Band
Commissioned by the Millennium Commission and written for
the Todmorden Old Band. During the course of the work, a slideshow
illustrates the music showing the many different ways man has
been affected by the Moon.
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