Andrew McPherson (1982- )
Andrew
McPherson is active as a composer and researcher in augmented
instruments, new performance interfaces and expressive performance
modeling. At MIT, he studyed composition with Peter Child and John
Harbison, and was awarded the 2004 Sudler Prize in the Arts. He
subsequently worked in Barry Vercoe's computer music group at the MIT
Media Lab. McPherson completed his Ph.D. in music composition at the
University of Pennsylvania in 2009, where his teachers included James
Primosch, Jay Reise, Anna Weesner, and Maurice Wright. He has attended
the Tanglewood, Aspen, Cabrillo, Bowdoin, and N.E.O.N. music festivals,
and has won awards including a 2008 Charles Ives Scholarship from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2009 Jacob Druckman Prize
from Aspen, the 2009-2010 Symphony in C Young Composer's Competition,
and grants from the American Composers Forum and American Music Center.
His compositions have been performed by Network for New Music, the
Radius Ensemble, the American Composers Orchestra, the Cabrillo
Festival Orchestra, the Tanglewood New Fromm Players, the BUTI Wind
Ensemble, and the MIT Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, among others. As
a recipient of a "Computing Innovation Fellows" award from the
Computing Research Association and the National Science Foundation, he
worked for two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Drexel University
in the Music Entertainment Technology laboratory (MET-lab). He is the
creator of the magnetic resonator piano, a hybrid acoustic-electronic
instrument augmenting the traditional grand piano, which offers new
musical possibilities to composers and performers, and the TouchKeys
multi-touch capacitive sensing musical keyboard. Currently McPherson is
Lecturer in Digital Media at Queen Mary, University of London, where he
is part of the Centre for Digital Music (C4DM) in the School of
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science. COMPOSITIONS McPherson Links ~ ~ ~ Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ McPherson on McPherson
Contrasts, piano (2003)
Scherzo, orchestra (2004)
Reflections, saxophone quartet (2004)
Pillars, string quartet (2005)
Soliloquy, cello and piano (2005)
First Light, orchestra (2006)
Chamber Concerto, solo viola and fl, cl, hn, bsn, db (2006)
Two Frames of Mind, string quartet and double bass (2006)
Diary of a Fidgeter, 2 percussionists (2007)
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system, 2 clarinets and 2 bassoons (2007)
Incantation, viola and oboe (2007)
Flow, cello and horn (2007)
Resonant Spaces, cello and live electronics (2007)
Lullaby, baritone, clarinet, violin, cello and harp (2007)
Lights and Snow (5 songs), soprano, clarinet, and piano (2007) [text: Conrad Aiken]
Play of Shadows, wind ensemble (2008)
Interstate Holiday, orchestra (2008)
Kinematics, violin (2008)
Idle Time, brass quintet (2008)
Song of Devotion, violin, cello and piano (2008)
d'Amore, viola, with magnetic resonator piano (2009)
Anagram, solo percussion (2009)
Secrets of Antikythera, magnetic resonator piano (2009)
Three Stories from the Topiary Garden, orchestra (2010)
Diversion, piccolo, clarinet and piano (2010)
Western Travelogues, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and cello (2010)
Blago's at his Exercise, baritone and piano (2010)
WORKS BY GENRE McPherson Links ~ ~ ~ McPherson on McPherson ~ top of page ~
Orchestra
Scherzo, orchestra (2004)
First Light, orchestra (2006)
Interstate Holiday, orchestra (2008)
Three Stories from the Topiary Garden, orchestra (2010)
Band
Play of Shadows, wind ensemble (2008)
Soloist(s) w/Orchestra
Chamber Concerto, solo viola and fl, cl, hn, bsn, db (2006)
Chamber
Reflections, saxophone quartet (2004)
Pillars, string quartet (2005)
Chamber Concerto, solo viola and fl, cl, hn, bsn, db (2006)
Two Frames of Mind, string quartet and double bass (2006)
This is a test of the emergency broadcast system, 2 clarinets and 2 bassoons (2007)
Incantation, viola and oboe (2007)
Flow, cello and horn (2007)
Idle Time, brass quintet (2008)
Song of Devotion, violin, cello and piano (2008)
Diversion, piccolo, clarinet and piano (2010)
Western Travelogues, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and cello (2010)
Instrument and Piano
Soliloquy, cello and piano (2005)
Solo Instrument
Resonant Spaces, cello and live electronics (2007)
Kinematics, violin (2008)
d'Amore, viola, with magnetic resonator piano (2009)
Percussion
Diary of a Fidgeter, 2 percussionists (2007)
Anagram, solo percussion (2009)
Piano
Contrasts, piano (2003)
Secrets of Antikythera, magnetic resonator piano (2009)
Vocal
Lullaby, baritone, clarinet, violin, cello and harp (2007)
Lights and Snow, soprano, clarinet, and piano (2007) [text: Conrad Aiken]
- How many times
- When I was a boy
- As I walked through the lamplit gardens
- The girl in the room beneath
- My heart is an old house
Blago's at his Exercise, baritone and piano (2010)
Electronic/Electroacoustic
Resonant Spaces, cello and live electronics (2007)
Secrets of Antikythera, magnetic resonator piano (2009)
d'Amore, viola, with magnetic resonator piano (2009)
MCPHERSON LINKS Works by Genre ~ ~ ~ McPherson on McPherson ~ top of page ~
Andrew McPherson Introduces "TouchKeys" Multi-touch Musical Keyboard (rekkerd.org)
Composer's website [also here ] . . . contact Andrew McPherson: here
McPherson @ Elaine Chew
McPherson @ Classical Archives
McPherson @ InstantEncore
McPherson @ Inventor Composer Coaction (ICC)
McPherson @ Music and Entertainment Technology Laboratory (MET-lab)
McPherson @ MusicWeb International
McPherson @ Network for New Music
McPherson @ Pop Matters
McPherson @ Secret Geometry
McPherson @ technical.ly/philly
Publisher
McPherson @ Composer's website
Streaming Audio
McPherson @ Composer's website - check under individual work listings
McPherson @ Classical Archives
McPherson @ last.fm
McPherson @ No Extra Notes
McPherson @ SoundCloud
Recordings
McPherson @ Amazon.com
McPherson @ ArkivMusic
McPherson @ CD Universe
McPherson @ ClassicsOnline
McPherson @ Innova
McPherson @ itunes
Video
McPherson @ YouTube
McPherson @ Google Video
McPherson @ Vimeo (via Google Advanced Search)
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McPherson on McPherson: Alive and Composing/Innova Records (VIDEO)
McPherson on McPherson: Interview at No Extra Notes (streaming audio)
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