Andrew Waggoner

Andrew Waggoner
Waggoner in Inwood, New York, in November 2015
Waggoner in Inwood, New York, in November 2015
Background information
Born (1960-11-10) 10 November 1960 (age 66)
New Orleans, Louisiana
OccupationsComposer, violinist
Years active1985 – present
Websitewww.andrewwaggoner.com

Andrew Waggoner (born November 10, 1960) is an American composer and violinist.

Biography

Andrew Waggoner grew up in New Orleans, Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies, the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Villiers Quartets, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Melia Watras, ‘cellist Robert Burkhart, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic of Zlin, Czech Republic, Sequitur, the Empyrean Ensemble, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, Ensemble X, CELLO, Flexible Music, Ensemble Nordlys, of Denmark, and Ensemble Accroche Note, of France.

Together with his wife, cellist Caroline Stinson, he is Co-Artistic Director of the Catskills-based Weekend of Chamber Music.

Waggoner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. A Fromm Foundation Commission supported Waggoner's Fifth String Quartet, written for the Lydian String Quartet.

Compositions

String chamber works

  • Down/Up for ob., vn., va., vc. (11′), 2014.
  • Genome of the Soul, for string quartet, 2 vns., va., vc. (11′), 2009.
  • My Penelope (String Quartet no. 4), (23′), 2006
  • Soon, the Rosy-Fingered Dawn, vn., va., vc. (13′), 2006.
  • Stretched on the Beauty, 4 ‘cellos (8’), 2009.
  • Third String Quartet (18′), 2003.
  • Legacy, st. qt. (7′), 1998, recorded by the Corigliano Quartet on CRI/New World
  • Strophic Variations for String Quartet "A Song", (25′), 1988, recorded by the Cassatt Quartet for CRI/New World.
  • I Want to Go With the Wolves, for string quartet and antiphonal howling children (6′), 1990.
  • Hexacorda Mollia (String Quartet), 2016. Commission for the Smart & Active Matter Conference at Syracuse University. Debuted by the JACK Quartet, June 22, 2016.

Chamber music with piano

  • Story of Alice Munro, and dedicated to John and Rosemary Harbison, 2013.
  • Catenary, vc., pf. (11′), 2008.
  • Tales of Home, for piano trio, vn., vc., pf. (12′), 2008.
  • Inventory of Terrors for piano quintet, 2 vns., va., vc., pf. (15′), 2009.
  • Elle s’enfuit (Encore-Fugue for viola and piano), va., pf. (8′), 2003.
  • Livre, vc., pf. (11′), for Caroline Stinson; 2014.
  • Langue et parole, vn., pf. (12′), 2005.
  • Story-Sonata, va., pf. (15′), 2000.

Mixed ensemble

  • Summer, cl., vn., vc., pf. (9′), 2012.
  • An Oracle Unheard, 10 Dramatic Movements after Herodotus, narr.; cl., vn., vc., va., pf. (25′), 2012.
  • Souffrir/symphonier, fl., ob., 2 gt., vn., vc. (10′), 2015.
  • One Kindness, cl., vn., vc., pf. (14′), 2010.
  • Catena di cuori, fl., pf. (6′), 2008.
  • Exorcist, sax., gt., perc., pf. (12′), 2007.
  • The Desires of Ghosts, fl., cl., vn., va., pf. (9′), 2000.
  • Pierrot Tells the Time... , fl., cl., vn., va., vc., pc., pf. (9′); 1997.
  • Shared Presence (Commune présence), ob., cl., bn., hn., 2 vn., va., vc., pf. (8′), 1999.
  • Going... , fl., vn., cbn., cb. (12′), 1988.

Discography

References

  1. ↑ "Andrew Waggoner Faculty Biography". Syracuse University Website. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Open End Ensemble Official Website" (PDF). Andrew Waggoner Bio. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  3. ↑ "ABOUT | Weekend of Chamber Music". Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  4. ↑ "Andrew Waggoner". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation... Retrieved 2024-01-18.
  5. ↑ "Waggoner, Andrew | Fromm Music Foundation". frommfoundation.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  6. ↑ "Corigliano Quartet Discography". Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Cassatt Quartet Discography". Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  8. ↑ Anonymous (5 August 2016). "Arts & Culture: A Quartet for Soft Matter". Physics. 9 92. Bibcode:2016PhyOJ...9...92.. doi:10.1103/Physics.9.92. Retrieved October 7, 2016.
  9. ↑ "The Well Tempered Ear". 21 August 2013. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
  10. ↑ "Andrew Waggoner: Quantum Memoir BRIDGE 9521". Bridge Records. Retrieved 2024-01-15.
  11. ↑ "Andrew Waggoner: Terror and Memory". 1 November 2011 – via Amazon.
  12. ↑ "Andrew Waggoner: Legacy by Various Artists on Apple Music". iTunes. 1 January 2001.