Kerry Andrew
Kerry Andrew | |
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Born | 5 April 1978 |
Occupation(s) | composer, performer, writer and educator |
Website | http://www.kerryandrew.net |
Kerry Andrew (born 5 April 1978, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire) is an English composer, performer, writer and educator.
From age 3 to age 6, Andrew lived in Canada with her family. The family subsequently returned to the UK and settled in the Buckinghamshire area. Andrew earned a BA in Music, MA and PhD in Composition, all from the University of York. She presently has academic affiliations with Trinity College of Music through their Junior Trinity and Trinity Laban programmes and at the University of Kent.
Andrew's choral works have been published by Oxford University Press and by Faber Music. Her vocal trio piece The Song of Doves concluded the national memorial service for the victims of the 7 July bombings, receiving national broadcast live on the BBC and other news outlets. Her composition Dusk Songs was commissioned and recorded by The Ebor Singers, and released by Boreas Music in 2007. Elsewhere, her work has been recorded on the Naxos and Nonclassical labels. In November 2010, she was a prize winner in the Making Music category of the British Composer Awards for her composition Fall.[1] She was composer-in-residence at the Handel House Museum from 2010-12.
In December 2014 Andrew won British Composer Awards in the categories for Community or Educational Project (for Woodwose: A Community Chamber Opera) and for Stage Works (for Dart's Love).[2]
In addition to her composition work, Andrew is a member of the ensembles Juice,[3] DOLLYman and Metamorphic. She also performs as a solo alt-folk artist under the name You Are Wolf.
Selected compositions
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References
- ↑ "MPA commissions new work from British Composer Awards winner Kerry Andrew" (Press release). Music Publishers Association. 1 December 2010. Retrieved 2011-03-27.
- ↑ "BRITISH COMPOSER AWARDS". britishcomposerawards.com.
- ↑ George Hall (2008-01-25). "PLG Young Artists (Purcell Room, London)". The Guardian. Retrieved 2009-08-09.
External links
- Official Kerry Andrew website
- Juice experimental vocal trio website
- You Are Wolf website
- Boreas Music page on Kerry Andrew
- PRS for Music Foundation page on Kerry Andrew
- "Kerry Andrew - An Interview", Opera Today, 12 January 2010
- "Kerry Andrew Interview (Part One)", PRS for Music Members' Magazine, 6 December 2010
- "Kerry Andrew Interview (Part Two)", PRS for Music Members' Magazine, 6 December 2010
- Kerry Andrew's blog "De-Composing"
- Kerry Andrew's blog as composer-in-residence at the Handel House Museum
- Kerry Andrew's blog on football "Fever Bitch"
- DOLLYman page on MySpace
- DOLLYman page on Facebook
- Metamorphoric page on MySpace
- Metamorphic page on Facebook