Career
He has written works for Trio Mediaeval and New York Polyphony. He is published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK as well as by Norsk Musikforlag and Musikk-Husets Forlag. Born in Liverpool in 1970, Andrew Smith settled in Norway in 1984.
He has worked for the Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival and as choirmaster of Oslo"s English Church.
He currently works for the Norwegian music publishers Norsk Musikforlag in Oslo. Andrew Smith"s music has been performed by leading Norwegian choirs including Ensemble 96, Schola Cantorum (Norwegian choir), Grex Vocalis, Kammerkoret NOVA, The Norwegian Girls Choir, and cathedral choirs in Oslo, Bergen and Trondheim.
His work has been commissioned and performed abroad by, among others, Trio Mediaeval (Norway), New York Polyphony, the Girl Choristers of Washington National Cathedral, Sete Lágrimas (Portugal), and Cappella Nova (Scotland). Recent works include Requiem (2012) for equal voices, organ and improvising trumpet which was premiered in Trondheim and subsequently at three venues in the United Kingdom by Arve Henriksen, Ståle Storløkken and Choralia (director Christopher Finch).
Gothic Voices (United Kingdom) commissioned Stond wel, Moder under Rode which was premiered in London in March 2015.
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