Trois Danses Miniatures: 1. Waltz

Trois Danses Miniatures: 2. Tango

Trois Danses Miniatures: 3. Polka

A song cycle for mezzo-soprano and orchestra based on the poetry of Manx national poet, T. E. Brown. This recording is performed by Rachel Gilmore and conducted by Philippe Bach

2. Scarlett Rocks

1. Weary Wind Of The West

3. Look At Me, Sun

Completed as an orchestration exercise for a lockdown webinar with Larry Blank

Give My Regards To Broadway

(Song for a time of new building) CETL for short, and composed at the request of the Royal Northern College of Music to mark the opening of their new Oxford Road Wing in July 2007, performed by the RNCM Concert Orchestra. An overture for festive occasions.

Carmen Exædificationis Tempori Laetificum

The whole piece is based on the four notes to which the phrase "Mein Schöner Stern" is always heard. These notes form intervals that are then diminished to create a 'series' of twelve notes, to which the whole piece can be attributed. The lines are formed by turning this series upside-down, back-to-front, and rotating smaller sections, unifying the whole piece. The piece is therefore a sort of "perpetual variation" of the opening phrase; a piece of music in free form that owes its emotive path to the text, and not to any pre-existing musical structure.

The listener is guided through the piece by periods of reflection, where the texture slows to allow the introduction of a new thought from the singer. 

Mein Schöner Stern

Originally from Sheffield, Andrew trained at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, where he specialised in composition.

Musical Director credits include: Annie (UK & Ireland Tour), Nativity! the Musical (UK Tour, Eventim Apollo), The Toyboy Diaries (Aria Entertainment/Hope Mill Theatre), A Dream (Sheffield Theatres). As Assistant Musical Director: UK and Ireland tours of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Evita (Bill Kenwright), Legally Blonde (also orchestrations), South Pacific and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (UK Productions)

Further instrumentalist credits include: Singin’ In The Rain, Legally Blonde (Kilworth House Theatre), Oliver! (Sheffield Theatres), Scrooge at the London Palladium (Bill Kenwright), and the UK Tour of the Lincoln Centre revival of South Pacific, Annie Get Your Gun (rehearsal pianist, Sheffield Theatres). Andrew is regularly employed as a répétiteur and rehearsal pianist by Opera North.

Andrew provided original music and sound design for Can’t Stand Up For Falling Down at the Lantern Theatre in Sheffield, orchestrations for Rockin’ Horses headlined by Michael Ball at London’s playhouse theatre, and musical preparation for This Is My Family at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. His critical performing edition of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience was recently performed by English Touring Opera on their recent UK tour.

Andrew Griffiths Composer

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