Andrew Batterham

Born in Melbourne in 1968, Andrew Batterham is a composer, arranger, songwriter and performer working across concert music, jazz, brass and wind bands, screen and educational music. He studied composition at Melbourne University with Peter Tahourdin, Brenton Broadstock and Barry Conyngham, and later at the Victorian College of the Arts. His honours include the Queensland Philharmonic’s Corbould Composition Prize, the Qantas Youth Award of the Paul Lowin Prize, and the Harvey Phillips Award (USA) for brass composition; after the Paul Lowin Prize he studied in New York with Ian Finkel and in London with John McCabe. Recent works include a Trumpet Concerto for David Elton and ABC Classic, a Concertino for tuba and wind band premiered in Portugal, an ANAM Set commission, and brass-band test pieces published by BrookWright (UK). He teaches composition at the Australian Institute of Music in Melbourne. His music has been performed and broadcast across Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA, by artists from James Morrison to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He is represented by the Australian Music Centre.

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