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Andrew McManus
- Composer
- Chicago, IL, US
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Experimental Rock, Electroacoustic Soundscapes, Spatialization, Serialism, Conlon Nancarrow, Elliott Carter, Gyorgy Ligeti, Thomas Ades
Composer Andrew McManus (b. 1985) is a doctoral student at the University of Chicago, where he studies with Shulamit Ran and Marta Ptaszynska. He holds a Master of Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studied with Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Allan Schindler and Howard Hanson Visiting Professor Yehudi Wyner. He is also a graduate of Yale University in New Haven, CT, where he studied with Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Mark Dancigers, Michael Klingbeil and Matthew Suttor. Other past teachers include Michael Gandolfi and Rodney Lister.
Mr. McManus has received numerous awards, including a 2009 BMI Student Composer Award, and the Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize, Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize, and the Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize, all from Eastman. Other awards include the Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize, Abraham Beekman Cox Prize, and Branford College Arts Prize, all from Yale University, and four ASCAPlus awards (2006-2009).
His orchestral work Identity was premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra under conductor Osmo Vänskä as part of the 2008 Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. He attended the MusicX Festival in Cincinnati, OH in both 2007 and 2008, where he participated in master classes with eighth blackbird, Michael Nyman and Jack Body. In June 2006 he was an Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellow at the Norfolk Contemporary Music Workshop, where he studied with Martin Bresnick and Alejandro Viñao.
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“The rain was invisible in the darkness of the streets, but it hung like the sparkling fringe of a lampshade under the corner light…There was a thin gruel of mud on the pavements; he felt a
Last month eighth blackbird gave a fantastic performance of The Generator on the University of Chicago‘s Contempo series. I finally have a recording of the performance!
“The crash of sound – the screeching crash of ripped metal and of pressures colliding on conflicting circuits, the sound of a monster turning upon itself – was heard only inside the structure
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