Andrew McManus

Composer Andrew McManus (b. 1985) holds a Master of Arts degree at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he has studied with Robert Morris, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon, Allan Schindler and Howard Hanson Visiting Professor Yehudi Wyner. He is a graduate of Yale College, where he studied with Kathryn Alexander, John Halle, Mark Dancigers, Michael Klingbeil and Matthew Suttor. Other past teachers include Michael Gandolfi and Rodney Lister. In September 2009 he will begin doctoral studies at the University of Chicago.

Mr. McManus has received numerous awards, including a 2009 BMI Student Composer Award, the 2009 Bernard Rogers Memorial Prize and the 2008 Howard Hanson Orchestral Prize from Eastman, and the Beekman Cannon Friends of Music Prize, Abraham Beekman Cox Prize, and Branford College Arts Prize, all from Yale University. He has also received two ASCAPlus awards (2006, 2007).

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.