Andrew March

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Born: 1973 — Warwickshire — United Kingdom
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Music

  • Spiritus (2004)
  • In Memoriam (2002)
  • Boy in Ice (2002)
  • Nymphéas for 2 Pianos (2001)
  • Be Still and Know (2001)
  • Alto Flute and Harp Book (2000)
  • A Stirring in the Heavenlies (2000)
  • Irish Reel (2000)
  • Marine — à travers les arbres (1997)
  • Easdale (1996)
  • Poem I from Chamber Music by James Joyce (1996)
  • Two Songs of Laurie Lee; [Black Edge, Invasion Summer] (1993)

Life

Andrew March (b.1973) was born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. A composition student at the Royal College of Music from 1992-1996, Andrew Studied with Jeremy Dale Roberts, While at the RCM, Andrew won numerous prizes, including the English Song Prize, Cobbett & Hurlstone Prize, United Music Publishers Prize, and the prestigious Constant & Kit Lambert Award. He had his works performed by the Twentieth Century and Composers’ Ensembles. His graduation work, Easdale, for orchestra, received its first performance by the RCM Symphony Orchestra and Edwin Roxburgh, and was awarded the Royal Philharmonic Composition Prize in 1996.

Since graduating from the RCM, and has achieved world-wide acclaim as a composer. His orchestral piece, Marine - à travers les arbres, was the winning work in the 1998 Masterprize International Composing Competition. The work has received 13 performances throughout the world including Zurich, Diisseldorf, Moscow and at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 1998. The work has been recorded by the BBC for the European Broadcasting Union, and by the LSO for the EMI Debut Series (CDZ5 72826-2).

Following a commission to celebrate the Quincentenary of the Worshipful Company of Musicians, Andrew’s 16-minute orchestral piece, A Stirring in the Heavenlies was premiered by the London Symphony Orchestra at the Barbican in December 2000.

In June 2001, the Belfast Philharmonic Society under Conductor Marion Wood, gave the World premiere of the revised version of “Be Still and Know” Psalm 46 at the Waterfront Hall, Belfast. The piece for SATB mixed choir was published in 2004 by Walton Choral and distributed by Hal Leonard.

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