Andrew March

Andrew Michael March
BornNovember 1973 (age 52)
Nuneaton, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Education
OccupationComposer
Known forMarine—à travers les arbres
Notable workSelected Works List
WebsiteOfficial Website

Andrew March is an English composer (born 1973). He was the winner of the first-ever Masterprize Composition Competition with his piece Marine — à travers les arbres. Andrew studied composition at the Royal College of Music with Jeremy Dale Roberts, graduating in 1996.

His compositions have received critical acclaim and have been recorded and performed by some of the world's most famous orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic.

Career

March was the 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize winner. In 1997, his symphonic poem Easdale was included on the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) shortlist.

Marine—à travers les arbres was featured at 1998's Proms, with the EUYO conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

His composition "A Stirring in the Heavenlies", a commission awarded as a prize by The Musician's Company in 1998, was recorded by the Kyiv Philharmonic under composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin for the 12–CD series "Masterworks of the New Era".

Sanguis Venenatus (2009) was an elegy written by March in memory of Haemophiliacs affected by the Tainted Blood Scandal. It was recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic with conductor Petr Vronský.

Awards

Selected works

Orchestral

Gosper′s Glider Gun
The Infinite Hotel
Cloverleaf Period–4 Oscillator
Babbling Brook
Pond on Pond

Ensemble

Chamber and instrumental

Water Lilies with Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute ossia
XXIX—in perpetuum for solo Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute
Adagio Assonnato
Aeolian Rustling with Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute ossia
Dragonfly
Moonrise at Perigee (2019)
Nightshade (2020)
Romance (2020)

Songs

Choral

Discography

References

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  15. ↑ Crewdson, Richard (2000). Apollo's Swan and Lyre: Five Hundred Years of the Musicians' Company. Boydell & Brewer. p. 225. ISBN 978-0-85115-766-5. LCCN 99054373. In 1998, on the initiative of Sir Alan Traill, the Company participated in the sponsorship of the international 'Masterprize' competition sponsored by Coutts Bank. The Company's prize was a commission worth £10,000 for a work to be specially written for performance during the Quincentenary year ... In the event the first prize and the Company's prize were awarded to the same finalist, the English composer Andrew March, who is engaged on the new commission as this book goes to press.
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