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Andrew Harrison is an Australian composer whose music has been performed in both Australia and the United States, and has been heard on Australian television and radio.

He has produced numerous works for theatre, including the dramatic underscore for the Eagle Eyed Productions staging of The Laramie Project in 2005 in Victoria, Australia, as well as incidental music for the same company's productions of the stage plays You Can't Take It With You and Breaker Morant. He has written music for numerous short features, including Simon (2009), At The End of The Day (2008), Bottom Dollar (2008), The Daily Grind (2008), Animal (2007), Deceased (2006), Eat The Suburbs (2006), Without Warning (2002) and Bean Dead (2000). He has also written numerous chamber and concert pieces, with works ranging from solo instrumental pieces to compositions for jazz ensemble.

Harrison directs and plays piano in The Andrew Harrison Trio, which is a vehicle for his compositions. He has performed at venues and festivals throughout Australia and the United States, both solo and with his trio, as well as with the groups SPAK, Spot The Phantom Dog, the UCSD Improvisation Ensemble and with trombonist George Lewis.

Harrison worked as music assistant to Australian film composer Paul Grabowsky on his opera Love in the Age of Therapy, produced by Opera Australia, and The Streets of Hiralya, commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. He has taught in the History Department at the University of Melbourne, and was a guest lecturer in Jazz Composition at Monash University, Melbourne.

Harrison contributed articles on Australian jazz to the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz in 2002. He completed a Master's degree in composition at the Australian National University School of Music in 1999, where he studied with Larry Sitsky. Andrew Harrison has also studied with George Lewis and Anthony Davis at UCSD in San Diego, California.

Andrew Harrison's works reflect his diverse musical passions, namely jazz, rock music, and the classical traditions. Drawing equally upon improvisation and more conventional notated concepts, Harrison composes music that is always engaging, challenging and entertaining

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Andrew Harrison — current to November 2009