Andrew Morris

Member

Composer/Lyricist:	Composer
Genre:	Concert
Email:	andrew@andrew-morris.com

Biography

Born in 1953, Andrew Morris taught himself both piano and composition before eventually taking a postgraduate course at the Welsh College of Music and Drama. Since 1980, his professional musical work can be divided into three main areas.

Teaching/educational work
Private piano lessons in classical, contemporary and jazz styles
Demonstration lectures on contemporary piano techniques/repertoire
Group composition workshops with school and community groups

Performing
Solo piano work - wide repertoire from C16 - C20
Accompaniment work - with both singers and instrumentalists for examinations, auditions, recitals etc.
Chamber music work - member of baroque, classical and contemporary music groups

Composing
Vocal and chamber instrumental works in concert style
Songs in popular style
Works created with school and community groups for public performance

Recent work in this latter category includes:

June 1998:
Leominster Music Monster, a community event involving five professional and around 180 amateur musicians (for the 1998 Leominster Festival)

August 1998:
If you go down to the woods tonight, an open-air music theatre performance at Queenswood Country Park

March 1999:
Over the Boundary, a piece devised with a group of five musicians together with a youth dance company and given three public performances in Hereford and Leominster

Important Works		Performances
The Bright Field (1991; 5 mins; scored for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, viola, cello and double bass; Da Capo Music 149) Snowdon Songs (1991-2; 14 mins; scored for mezzo-soprano, two clarinets, viola, cello and double bass; Da Capo Music 137) The flute of interior time (1994; 15 mins; scored for soprano, flute and cello; Da Capo Music 179) The Hobbit Songbook (1994-5; 26 mins; scored for two part children's choir and piano; unpublished) Awaking in heaven (1995; 12 mins; scored for baritone and piano; Da Capo Music 265) In the beginning (1996; 5 mins; scored for two part children's choir and piano; Da Capo Music 310) Inner Light (1997; 13 mins; violin, viola and cello; commissioned for the opening of the Lyon Ballroom, Leominster and premiered there by the Beethoven String Trio of London; Da Capo Music 326) Honey Bear (1997; 4 mins; scored for soprano, clarinet, cello, percussion and piano; Da Capo Music 362) Infinite Spiral I (1997; 6 mins; scored for piano duet; unpublished) Infinite Fragments (1998; 11 mins; piano solo, premiered by Joanna MacGregor; unpublished)		None added