Professor of Composition

Dean for Research, College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 01248 382188

Location: Main Arts

Website: www.andrewlewis.org.uk

Andrew Lewis is an award-winning composer and an internationally recognised figure in the field of acousmatic composition. His more recent work includes more music for orchestras and ensembles, but retains a strong interest in the materiality of sound, and the use of technology to realise new kinds of musical ideas. He is especially interested in spatial sound, in the relationship between 'real-world' and 'abstract' sounds, and in the phenomena of aural perception as part of the creative process.

Recent projects include the audiovisial work 'LEXICON' (funded by the Wellcome Trust) which was seen live by more than 1700 people during its UK tour, and 'Fern Hill' for orchestra and electronics, which was commissioned for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales for the centenary celebrations of Dylan Thomas, and broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. This work won first prize in the KLANG! competition, Montpellier, and was given its French premiere there by the Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie. In 2016 he was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship to compose a large scale work for orchestra and electronics featuring the voices of people with dementia and their partners who care for them ('Lebenslieder'). The resulting work was awarded second prize in the KLANG! competition, Montpellier, in 2018. In 2019 'Straatmuziek' for flute, clarinet, piano and electronics was one of only two works chosen to represent Wales at the ISCM World Music Days in Estonia. In 2018 he was one of ten composers from Wales commissioned for the debut concert of the UPROAR Ensemble, and in 2020 completed a new commission them for ensemble and electronics, for a tour in the UK and Europe.

Numerous recordings are available, including two collections of his works: 'Miroirs obscurs' and 'Au-dèla' (empreintes DIGITALes) as well as 'Schattenklavier' on Shadow Piano (Innova).  His instrumental and vocal music is published by Composers Edition, and his acousmatic music by Ymx média, Montréal (electrocd.com).

WEBSITES

• Composer website: www.andrewlewis.org.uk
• Acousmatic music publisher: electrocd.com
• Scores publisher: composersedition.com

Undergraduate and Taught Postgraduate modules:

• Sonic Art
• Music Since 1850
• The Nineteenth Century Symphony
• Interactive Sound and Music
• Composition
• Acousmatic Composition
• Composition in Context

I am currently main supervisor for three PhD's in composition and electroacoustic composition:

• Sara Pinheiro: Acousmatic Foley
• Hu Yu: Nuo Opera in Acousmatic Music
• Shen Lin: Chinese Folk Music in Interactive and Acousmatic Music

Recently completed PhD projects in Composition:

• Katherine Betteridge: Nature and Magic – Rediscovering Connections (2020)
• Steven Tunnicliffe: Perception and Structure in Electroacoustic Music (2019)
• Richard Garrett: Generative Music from Fuzzy Logic and Probability (2017)
• Emmannouil Gregoriadis: An Invitation to Listen: exploring engagement in technologically mediated music (2016)

College Roles

• Dean for Research

Departmental Responsibilities

• Studio Director