Andrew March

Andrew March is an English composer (born 1973). 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 (SPNM) 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 (2009) 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 Vr