Born in 1979, Andrew Norman has established himself in recent years as an exciting young composing talent. In December 2004, his Sacred Geometry was premiered by the New York Youth Symphony, a commission from the Symphony’s First Music program. This work earned him the Nissim Prize from ASCAP and the Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival. Mr. Norman has received commissions from the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, the California State University Stanislaus Symphony, the Hoff-Barthelson School, and the Cascade Head Music Festival in Oregon. Most recently, he has been commissioned by the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists and the Colburn School in Los Angeles.

Andrew Norman’s music has been performed at the Aspen Music Festival, the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, the MATA Festival in New York, the Chicago Chamber Players’ Composer Perspectives Series and by the Minnesota Orchestra and the New England Philharmonic, among others. Mr. Norman was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and a fellow twice at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East in Bennington, Vermont. He has held residencies at the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Copland House.

Mr. Norman was chosen as Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence for the years 2007-2009. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, four Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Leo Kaplan Prize from ASCAP as well as a BMI Student Composer Award. He has also received top honors in the National Federation of Music Club’s Composition Competition, the Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition, the New England Philharmonic Call for Scores, and the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work.

Andrew Norman's most recent orchestral work Unstuck was premiered in September 2009 by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the direction of Michael Sanderling. Commissioned by the Orpheum Foundation for the Advancement of Young Soloists, Unstuck is characterized by a driving energetic pulse that recalls the feel of Norman's brilliant work for eight violinists, Gran Turismo. The title is inspired in part by the famous sentence "Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time" from Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five". Norman's chamber music has earned the composer acclaim as well and sees frequent performances. In May of 2008 his work Lullaby, for mezzo-soprano and piano, saw its world premiere at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. by mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke and pianist  Pei-Yao Wang. Norman's work for solo viola Sabina saw its premiere by Nokuthula Ngwenyama in November of that same year at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

As pianist, Mr. Norman is an avid performer of contemporary music and a committed educator. He has performed in the Los Angeles-based Ensemble Green and served on the faculty of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music. Mr. Norman is a graduate of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he studied composition with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke and piano with Stewart Gordon, and was twice named the Thornton School's most outstanding graduate. He is currently pursuing an Artist Diploma at the Yale School of Music, where he studies with Aaron Jay Kernis.

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