Andrew Waggoner | |
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Background information | |
Born | New Orleans, Louisiana, United States | 10 November 1960
Occupation(s) | Composer, violinist |
Years active | 1985 – present |
Website | www |
Andrew Waggoner (born November 10, 1960, in New Orleans) is an American composer and violinist.
Andrew Waggoner grew up in New Orleans, Minneapolis and Atlanta, and studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. His music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies, the Cassatt, Corigliano, Miro, and Villiers Quartets, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, the California EAR Unit, pianist Gloria Cheng, violist Melia Watras, ‘cellist Robert Burkhart, the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic of Zlin, Czech Republic, Sequitur, the Empyrean Ensemble, Buglisi-Foreman Dance, Ensemble X, CELLO, Flexible Music, Ensemble Nordlys, of Denmark, and Ensemble Accroche Note, of France.[1][2]
Together with his wife, cellist Caroline Stinson, he is currently Co-Artistic Director of the Catskills-based Weekend of Chamber Music.[3]
Waggoner was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.[4] A Fromm Foundation Commission supported Waggoner's Fifth String Quartet, written for the Lydian String Quartet.[5]