Andrew Schultz

Andrew Schultz was born in Australia and lives in Sydney. He studied at the Universities of Queensland and Pennsylvania and at King’s College London, where his teachers and mentors included George Crumb, David Lumsdaine and Luciano Berio. He has received numerous awards, among them Australia Council Fellowships and Paul Lowin, Fulbright, APRA and Art Music Awards. His music spans chamber, orchestral and vocal works and has been performed and recorded widely by leading musicians internationally.

A full-time composer, he has held many commissions, including from all the major Australian orchestras. Large-scale works include three operas—Black River, Going Into Shadows and The Children’s Bach—presented live and on film around the world. Other major scores include three symphonies, Journey to Horseshoe Bend, Maali, Endling, Paradise and a Violin Concerto, with later works including bassoon and piano concertos and a Fourth Symphony commissioned by WASO.

He has held residencies in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the USA and the UK, including at the Banff Centre for Creativity and the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. He is Emeritus Professor of Music at UNSW Sydney, and was previously Head of Composition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, Professor of Composition at the University of Wollongong, and the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies at Harvard University.

More information: www.andrewschultz.net

Artist's website: www.andrewschultz.net