Andrew Waggoner

Andrew Waggoner was born in 1960 in New Orleans. He grew up there and in Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. He has received grants and prizes from ASCAP, Yaddo, The New York State Council on the Arts, Meet the Composer, New Music Delaware, the Eastman School of Music and Syracuse University.

He has also been awarded the Lee Ettelson Composer’s Award from Composers Inc., in San Francisco, has been nominated for two prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005. He has been awarded the Roger Sessions Prize for an American composer by the Liguria Study Center in Bogliasco, Italy, and will be in residence at Bogliasco in the spring of 2008.

His music has been commissioned and performed by the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Denver Symphony, the Syracuse Symphony, the Winnipeg Symphony, the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Degas Quartets, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Melia Watras, 'cellist Robert Burkhart, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic of Zlin, Czech Republic, Sequitur, the Empyrean Ensemble, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, the Athabasca Trio, CELLO, Flexible Music, and Ensemble Accroche Note, of France.

He was a founding Director of the Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music in Vinalhaven, Maine, and is currently Composer-in-Residence at the Setnor School of Music of Syracuse University. With his wife, the ‘cellist Caroline Stinson, he has recently formed Open End, which gave their premiere concerts last season at the Tenri Center in New York, and have upcoming performances in New York, Syracuse and Strasbourg.

www.andrewwaggoner.com

Commissions and Performances
New commission - 2008
3 May 2008, Stratford-upon-Avon Civic Hall (world premiere)