Andrew March
Andrew March is an English composer. 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 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 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
- 1990 Flame of Youth Fanfare Competition
- 1993 English Song Prize
- 1994 United Music Publishers' Prize
- 1995 Cobbett & Hurlstone Prize
- 1995 The Philip Morris Art Award
- 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize
- 1996 Constant and Kit Lambert Award –
- 1998 Masterprize International Composing Competition
- 1998 Worshipful Company of Musicians Quincentenary Commission
- 2004 International Composition Competition to Honour the Greek Poet, Pindar
Selected works
Orchestral
Easdale- Marine—à travers les arbres Irish Reel A Stirring in the Heavenlies, commissioned by the Worshipful Company of MusiciansFive Songs of Pindar for soprano, choir and orchestraSanguis Venenatus for string orchestra, written in memory of haemophiliacs and others who lost their lives as a result of the Tainted Blood ScandalCellular Automata Orchestral Suite Amoration for piano and strings
- Piano Concerto No. 1 The Skylark for full orchestra and SSAA voices. Text: John Clare
Ensemble
Flame of Youth Fanfare for brass ensemble of 12 playersNymphéas for 8 playersTen Little Pieces for 8 playersMusic for Film Credits for 9 playersAdagio Assonnato for oboe, harp, stringsNymphéas for Clarinet Choir Elegy on Sudden Loss for string orchestraChamber and instrumental
La Maison Blanche dans les Collines for string quartetCornelyn for piano and stringsImages of the Lake for solo fluteTransient Moods for guitar soloNymphèas for Two Pianos, revised Alto Flute and Harp Book In Memoriam for Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute, marimba, vibraphone, harp and strings Equipoise for bass clarinet and pianoString Quartet Cycle "Birds of Prey'' Irish Reel—Piano Transcription for piano soloPhoenix Trail for violin and pianoThree Pieces for Solo Cello Solo Piano Album "14 pieces" Ephemeral Nymphs for cello and pianoDragonfly for flute, viola and harpSpring Tide Arabesque for bass clarinet duoNightwind for flute, violin and celloDragonfly for clarinet, bass clarinet and pianoSeven Pieces for bass clarinet and pianoTwo Pieces for bass clarinet duoPieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano Solitude for alto saxophoneSongs
Boy in Ice for mezzo–soprano and piano. Text: Laurie LeeInvasion Summer for mezzo–soprano and 6 players. Text: Laurie LeeBlack Edge for mezzo–soprano and 8 players. Text: Laurie LeePoem I from "Chamber Music" for soprano and harp. Text: James JoyceUn Grand Sommeil Noir for baritone and piano. Text: Paul VerlaineTwo Lovers for baritone and piano. Text: George EliotChoral
Be Still and Know O Sing Unto the Lord The Grace Magnificat Spiritus Thou Art Worthy Nunc Dimittis "The Song of Simeon" Phos Hilaron "Song of the Light" Marian Antiphon No.3 "Regina Caeli" Marian Antiphon No.2 "Ave Regina Coelorum" 25 Choral Collects ; Text: Common Worship, Additional CollectsMay We Who Share His Table The Baptism of Christ Almighty God, you search us and you know us Creator of the Heavens "Choral Collect for Epiphany" Text: Common Worship, Additional CollectsPsalm 57 Somnia Text: Petronius Arbiter; Translation: Helen Waddell How Long, O Lord? My Voice is Unto God, with organ accompanimentMay We Who Share His Table for SSA choir with piano accompanimentAnd It Shall Be De Profundis, for SAATBB choirSpera in Domino "Psalm 36" Dixit Iniustus "Psalm 35" Dies Quoque "Day of Narrow Anguish" Ante Faciem Dei Your Eyes Fall Upon Us "Anthem for Remembrance" ; Text : Sue ThreakallLaudate Dominum Psalm 22 for SSATB choir Your Mercy, O Lord for SSAA choir with piano accompanimentOur God at Hand Lament for SSAATTBB choirDiscography
- 1998 – Top of the World, Marine – à travers les arbres, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Daniel Harding
- 1998 – Masterprize Finalists, Marine – à travers les arbres, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Daniel Harding
- 2005 – Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Seven, A Stirring in the Heavenlies, Kiev Philharmonic, cond. Robert Ian Winstin
- 2007 – Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Eleven, Nymphéas, Kiev Philharmonic, cond. Robert Ian Winstin
- 2007 – Regina Caeli, Nunc Dimittis; Magnificat; Be Still and Know; Spiritus etc., The Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, cond. Daniel Soper; Rebecca Drake,
- 2012 – Dimensions, Sanguis Venenatus, Moravian Philharmonic Strings, cond. Petr Vronský
- 2013 – Moto Perpetuo, Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Ovidiu Marinescu
- 2014 – As if to sleep, Elveden; Nosce Te Ipsum; Moonvine; Pavane; Homage; Night Vigil; Solus etc., pf. Andrew March
- 2016 – Amoration, F.A.M.E.'S. Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, cond. Oleg Kondratenko; pf. Marija Vrskova
- 2022 – Elegy on Sudden Loss, OpenSound Orchestra, cond. Stanislav Malyshev;.