Andrew Batterham : Represented Artist
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Artist website: http://www.andrewbatterham.com
Andrew
Batterham is an
Australian composer, arranger, songwriter, and performer. He is
active across many genres including art music, jazz, corporate
music, big bands, TV, and educational music. His music has been
performed, recorded and broadcast in Australia, Asia, Europe and
the USA, by artists ranging from jazz legend James Morrison to the Melbourne Symphony
Orchestra.
After studying composition with Brenton
Broadstock, Andrew worked as a trumpet player and
pianist in the Melbourne commercial scene for many years. Upon
winning the Qantas Youth Award of the Paul Lowin Prize, he
travelled to New York to study with Broadway arranger
Ian Finkel, and to London for lessons
with John McCabe. Other achievements
include the Corbould Composition Prize (Queensland Symphony),
participation in the Australian Composers Orchestral Forum,
commendations in National Songwriting Contest, and commissions
from the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and many other
organisations.
Commercially Andrew's music has been heard on TV and radio, in short film scores and corporate events. He has also arranged orchestral backing music for albums by various artists. Recent activity includes Concertino for solo tuba and wind band (winner of the Harvey Phillips Award), premiered by Sérgio Carolino and the Banda Sinfónica Portuguesa at the São João Festival in Portugal; residencies at the Sydney International Brass Festival and the Gravissimo festival, Portugal, and CD releases for Tall Poppies and Cala Records (UK). Andrew received ABC Fresh Start Funding for his Trumpet Concerto to be recorded by David Elton and members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and an ANAM Set commission in 2021. His songwriting has been rewarded with an Amex Music Backer's Fund grant to record funk band Speakeasy at Melbourne's iconic Sing Sing studios, and his song Straight Ahead won the Soul and RnB category of the Voyager International Songwriting Competition.
Andrew is published by AvA Musical Editions (Europe), Potenza Music (USA), Reed Music, SingScore, Wirripang, Lyrebird Press, the Australian Jazz Real Book, and the Australian Music Centre. He works at the Australian Institute of Music, Melbourne campus.
Andrew Batterham — current to November 2021
Selected Commissions
Work | Commission Details | |
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Trumpet Concerto : for trumpet and piano (2020) | Commissioned by ABC Fresh Start Fund. | |
Trumpet Concerto (trumpet with string orchestra) (2020) | Commissioned by ABC Classic in 2020 as part of the ABC’s Fresh Start program | |
Euphonia (solo euphonium) (2016) | Commissioned by Matthew van Emmerik. | |
Spring music : Piano sonata no. 2 (2014) | Commissioned by Natasha Lin. | |
Urban songs : string quartet (2014) | Local Heroes Commission from the Melbourne Recital Centre | |
Scorpion dragon : for solo tuba and 9 horns (2014) | Written for the 2014 Sydney International Brass Festival |