Andres Miranda was born in 1981 in Bogota-Colombia. His family's eviroment allowed him to become familiar with a wide and varied knowledge of music. Since his early years he has listened to Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles and other classic rock songs, as well as Beethoven, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Debussy, Satie, Carl Orff, Tchaikovsky, Juaquin Rodrigo and Bach among others. When he was 8 years old he had started to study music at "Orquesta Sinfonica Juvenil de Colombia" where he received guitar and musical grammar lesson. After he finished high school he joined "Universidad Central de colombia" to study Classical Music with an emphasis on classical guitar. In 2006 he finished his degree by performing his graduate recital Gentil Montana (famous Colombian compuser for guitar), Bach, Jhon Dowland, Roland Dyens's pieces and the "Concierto de Aranjuez" (The most important Concerto for classical Guitar) by Juaquin Rodrigo. Andres Miranda composes and produces his own musical pieces and he has made music for short films as well. In 2007 He joined "Universidad Nacional de Colombia" to study a Master's degree in "Symphony conductor" which currently is unfinished because he came to London to improve his musical knowledge and experience. However, during that time he learned and applied some concepts of orchestration in his compositions. In 2009 he attended a Jazz Course at Goldsmith’s University of London and he finished a Master in Guitar Performance in Electric Guitar at Tech Music Schools in London.  Currently, Andres is working as a guitar teacher at Newham College in London at Stratford Campus and at Gainsborough Centre.

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