Birmingham Conservatoire : Dr Andrew Glover

• Composition Tutor
• Birmingham Conservatoire
• Faculty of Performance, Media & English
• Phone: c/o +44 (0)121 331 6902

Andrew Glover was born in Birmingham and studied art and music, gaining his BA (Hons) in Creative Arts in 1984 along with a performance diploma in flute. For a number of years he worked in the record industry and studied privately for two years with Keith Gifford. In 1993 he graduated from Keele University with a PhD in music composition, having studied with George Nicholson. Andrew’s roots lie in Celtic folk music and rock music and elements of Celtic melody and hard rock dogma are sometimes evident in the driving rhythms and motivic melodic cells of his works. His main influences are to be found in the experimental avant-garde of the 1950s to the 1980s. Along with many other experimentalists, Andrew continues to write uncompromising individual music that is instantly recognisable as his, but also very accessible to the concert-going public.

Andrew’s works have been performed internationally by artists and ensembles such as the Hanson Quartet, Singcircle, Andrew Ball, Gabriel Keen, Pablo Diemecke, Asako Arai, Linda Hirst, James Wood, Alison Wells, Guildhall New Music Ensemble, Quintetto Des Alientos de la Cuidad De Mexico, English Northern Philharmonic Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Latin American String Quartet, Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra, Noszferatu, Carlos Chavez Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Mieko Kanno, and Mexican National Symphony Orchestra, amongst others. His music has also been broadcast in Britain, the Netherlands and Eastern Europe.

Andrew’s music is available from him, Birmingham Central Library, the Gaudeamus Foundation (Amsterdam, Netherlands), or the Fundacio ACA (Mallorca, Spain). A number of his works are also available on CD on the CDP label.

Recordings

• 2011: 'Behind The Shield Wall: Various Electro-Acoustic Works'
• 2009 : 'Symphony No.2: Byzantium'
• 2003: 'The Death of Angels: A Concerto for Violin and Orchestra'
• 2003 : 'The End of the Circle'
• 2000 : 'Various works 1993-1999' 

Major Performances

• 2011: Symphony No.2: Byzantium - premiere with film and animation
• 2011: Anatolian Distortions for Solo amplified Flute and Fixed Medium (CD) – premiere, by Asako Arai, Manuel Enriquez Festival
• 2010: Faeder Ure Fixed Tape Medium – premiere, Birmingham Conservatoire
• 2010: The Angel In The Machine: A Concerto for Flute and Orchestra – premiere, Mexican State Symphony Orchestra with Asako Arai, flute, Mexico City 
• 2009: A Night Walk Through Mexico City for solo piano - Barockmuseum Salzburg. Second Prize, YUAGE Competition
• 2008: The Walls of Constantinople for Tape – premiere, Expo Brighton Festival
• 2007: Reasons of Darkness, Excuses of Light for Baglama and Mixed Ensemble – premiere, by Brandenburgischer Ensemble with Taner Akyol, baglama. Winner of President’s Promotional Prize, Brandenburg Composition Competition
• 2003: The Death of Angels: A concerto for Violin and Orchestra - BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Grant Llewellyn) with Miekko Kanno, violin. Broadcast Feb 2003 
• 2003: End of The Circle for Piano – Gabriel Keene, St Cyprians Church, London 
• 2001: In The Region of the Summer Angel for Flute and Chamber Orchestra –Carlos Chavez Orchestra (cond. Juan Carlos Lomonaco) with Asako Arai, flute, Manuel Enriquez Festival, Mexico City 
• 1999: Wind Carvings for Wind Quintet – Quintetto Des Alientos de la Ciudad De Mexico, Manuel Enriques Festival, Mexico City 
• 1998: Thowring for Harp – Francesco Angel, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1997: Fractured Vistas for Orchestra – Dutch Radio Chamber Orchestra (cond. Peter Eotvos), Gaudeamus Festival
• 1997: The Fickle Virgin of Seventeen Summers: A Quartet for Strings – Quartetto Latinamericano, Manuel Enriquez Festival, Mexico City
• 1996: Fractured Vistas for Orchestra – BBC Symphony Orchestra (cond. Martyn Brabbins). Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 
• 1996: Fractured Vistas for Orchestra – Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, Lutoslawski Prize concert, Warsaw, Poland 
• 1994: Fractured Vistas for Orchestra – English Northern Philharmonia (cond. Paul Daniels), Dewsbury Town Hall
• 1994: The Stones Speak Czech for Soprano and Microtonal Ensemble – Guildhall New Music Ensemble (cond. James Wood) with Alison Wells, soprano, Barbican Hall
• 1993: 800th Lifetime: A Sonata for Piano – Andrew Ball, SPNM 50th Anniversary Concerts, RCM, London

Current research Interests

• Anglo Saxon Music, History and Culture (Electro-acoustic and acoustic compositions dealing with this course of research)
• The Unknown British Symphonists: A short study of the British Composers who have written symphonies but are generally forgotten or little known
• New major choral composition (2011): Willowed To a Wake

Recent research interests

• Byzantine music, Culture and History. (Electro-Acoustic Composition recently released on CD under the Title: Symphony No.2: Byzantium)

Other research areas

• General composition
• Electro acoustic composition
• Composition for performance with fixed media
• Rock performance and history
• World musics and Celtic and British folk musics

• Performing Rights Society (PRS)
• Institute For Learning (Ifl)