Andrew Carter

Education

Born in Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, Carter studied music at the University of Leeds, before moving to York and joining the choir at the Minster as a bass.

Career

After spending a year conducting and adjudicating in New Zealand (1984), he returned to England to focus on composition. The Oxford University Press have published more than fifty of his compositions over a period of association spanning twenty-five years. The famous Nine Lessons and Carols service broadcast annually on the British Broadcasting Corporation by the Choir of King"s College, Cambridge, has included several of his carols, including and

A notable moment in Carter"s musical career was a commission in 1997 to write a mass () for the tercentenary celebration of Street Paul"s Cathedral in London.

In 2007, he composed a 22-variation Passacaglia for organ to mark the 90th birthday of the former York Minster organist Francis Jackson. He travels extensively in Europe and Australia and New Zealand as a choral director

Other works.

Achievements

• Whilst there, in 1965 he founded the Chapter House Choir, a mixed voice ensemble that achieved national renown under his direction of seventeen years.