Andrew Wilson

Specialism:

Composition

Location:

Tavistock
United Kingdom PL19

Contact:

tel. 01822 610689
www.andrew-m-wilson.com

Additional Info:

Andrew M. Wilson was born in 1960 in Bedfordshire. He held a Junior Exhibition to Trinity College of Music, London, before proceeding to study Music at the Royal Holloway College of London University, where his teachers included Brian Dennis for composition and Martin Neary for organ.
He is a very busy composer and recently his music has been performed all over the world from the Royal Albert Hall, London (Omfra’s Laugh 2014) to Montreal, Canada (Tubas cum Cytharis, 2017); he has had a number of commercial recordings released of his orchestral (e.g. Tros an Tres on EMR CD032-33), chamber and keyboard music (e.g. The Suite of Sweets CC2032 Tailwind) which have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. His children’s opera “The Green Children” was produced to great acclaim at the Woolpit Festival in 2016. He has won numerous awards for his compositions: most recently the University of Alabama Chamber Music Competition 2018, the New York Project Trio Competition 2017, the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir’s “Celebrating Dorset Competition” 2016, the International Small Choirs Competition 2015 and the “Harvest of the Sea” City of London Prize 2015. He is also the Musical Director of the Okehampton Choral Society and the Callington Singers.
Recent events have included the premieres of “A Requiem for Peace”, in St Andrew’s Minster, Plymouth on November 10th 2018, commissioned by the South West Chamber Choir and funded by the Vaughan Williams Trust, commemorating the centenary of the end of the First World War and the mammoth organ piece “La Rosace” was premiered by Robert Mingay-Smith in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris in January 2019. In July 2020 a choral and orchestral commission in celebration of the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers is to be performed in Southampton.

Specialisms

Commissions, Contemporary Classical

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