ANDREW NORMAN, recipient of the 2006 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, is the Young Concert Artists Composer-in-Residence for the years 2007-2009.  As Composer-in-Residence, he receives two commissions from YCA.  The first, Lullaby for mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, winner of the 2007 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, received its premiere at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in May 2008.   The second will be premiered by pianist Wonny Song, Winner of the 2005 Young Concert Artists International Auditions, at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall in New York in February 2009.

September 2008 brought the premiere of Unstuck, commissioned by The International Orpheum Music Festival for Young Soloists, to be performed by the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under the baton of Michael Sanderling.  As recipient of a New York Youth Symphony “First Music” commission, Mr. Norman’s Sacred Geometry was premiered in 2004 and earned him the Nissim Prize from ASCAP and the Jacob Druckman Prize from Aspen.  He has also 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.

Mr. Norman was a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival, and his association with the Festival continues with educational residencies and family concerts in the M.O.R.E. Music Program in the Roaring Fork Valley Schools during the winter and spring of this season, a concert of his works in the summer of 2008 on the Inside Music series, and the premiere of a commissioned chamber work in 2009.

Mr. Norman’s music has been performed at the 2006 Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, the Monday Evening Concerts in Los Angeles, the MATA Festival in New York and the Chicago Chamber Players’ Composer Perspectives Series.  He was a composition fellow twice at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East in Bennington, Vermont, and has held residencies at the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Copland House. 

Mr. Norman is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Morton Gould Young Composer Awards and the Leo Kaplan Prize from ASCAP, as well as a BMI Student Composer Award and top honors in the National Federation of Music Clubs 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.  

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.

Born in 1979 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 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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