ANDREW M. WILSON- BIOGRAPHY
Andrew M. Wilson was born in 1960 and studied at Trinity College of Music and the Royal Holloway College of London University.
He was the Director of Music at Kelly College before becoming the Vice Principal of the National College of Music, London in 2015. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal works have been recorded, published and performed all over the world, from Paris to Tokyo and regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has won many international awards including the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir’s “Celebrating Dorset” competition 2016 and the Northern California Viola Society Composition Competition 2020. He was a finalist in the 2022 NYC Contemporary Music Symposium at Columbia University and a featured composer at the 2022 London New Wind Festival and at the 2023 European Composers' Network, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2024 he won the 2024 Růžičková Composition Competition, Viktor Kalabis and "Prima la musica!" Prize.
Recent commissions have included “The Pilgrim Fathers” for Southampton’s Mayflower400 celebrations, “The Morgowr” for the 50th Anniversary concert of the Cornwall Youth Orchestra, “Aiming at Eternity” for the 2023 Wren300 commemoration and “Hare Trigger” for Sarah Watts 10 Wee Devon Pints solo clarinet project. He was composer in residence at the 2022 Cornwall Horn Festival in Truro. His chamber music has been played and recorded by many top ensembles such as the Dante String Quartet, and the Chamber Ensemble of London. This premieres in 2023 included, “The Blue Boy Concerto” for Horn and Strings and “Earth Signs” for Violin and Orchestra (commissioned by the Penzance Orchestral Society, soloist Preston Yeo) and in 2024 “The Courage Lies Within You” commissioned by the University of Alabama Chamber Trio; "Except the Lord Build the House" commissioned for "Stellarum" San Diego to sing at the Denston550 commemoration.
In 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Johann Pestalozzi University, Miami, Florida. (2nd June 2024)
He was the Director of Music at Kelly College before becoming the Vice Principal of the National College of Music, London in 2015. His orchestral, chamber, and vocal works have been recorded, published and performed all over the world, from Paris to Tokyo and regularly broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He has won many international awards including the Bournemouth Sinfonietta Choir’s “Celebrating Dorset” competition 2016 and the Northern California Viola Society Composition Competition 2020. He was a finalist in the 2022 NYC Contemporary Music Symposium at Columbia University and a featured composer at the 2022 London New Wind Festival and at the 2023 European Composers' Network, Lisbon, Portugal. In 2024 he won the 2024 Růžičková Composition Competition, Viktor Kalabis and "Prima la musica!" Prize.
Recent commissions have included “The Pilgrim Fathers” for Southampton’s Mayflower400 celebrations, “The Morgowr” for the 50th Anniversary concert of the Cornwall Youth Orchestra, “Aiming at Eternity” for the 2023 Wren300 commemoration and “Hare Trigger” for Sarah Watts 10 Wee Devon Pints solo clarinet project. He was composer in residence at the 2022 Cornwall Horn Festival in Truro. His chamber music has been played and recorded by many top ensembles such as the Dante String Quartet, and the Chamber Ensemble of London. This premieres in 2023 included, “The Blue Boy Concerto” for Horn and Strings and “Earth Signs” for Violin and Orchestra (commissioned by the Penzance Orchestral Society, soloist Preston Yeo) and in 2024 “The Courage Lies Within You” commissioned by the University of Alabama Chamber Trio; "Except the Lord Build the House" commissioned for "Stellarum" San Diego to sing at the Denston550 commemoration.
In 2021 he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Johann Pestalozzi University, Miami, Florida. (2nd June 2024)