Andrew York

Andrew York was born in 1958 in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Virginia. He attended James Madison University where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Guitar Performance in 1980. He completed his Master of Music degree at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles in 1986 and was a recipient of numerous awards and scholarships while there, including the Jack Marshall Memorial Scholarship, the Barry Manilow Endowment Fund Award and the Del Amo Foundation Grant for study in Spain. Andrew York is an accomplished and experienced musician with an extraordinary natural gift and a sincere desire to share his music with others.

Andrew York has shown his extraordinary talent and versatility as a musician in many styles: electric guitar in a jazz quintet; classical guitar with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet; even lute with the USC Early Music Ensemble. Andrew is now concentrating on a solo career, recording and performing his own compositions. He has played many solo concerts throughout the United States and in Europe, and was recently selected to be included on Windham Hill Records' Guitar Sampler. He has two other albums as well: "Perfect Sky, Andrew York - Solo Guitar" on Timeless Records and "Ectasy", an album of classical guitar duos on a British label.

A skillful composer and arranger, Andrew has a number of published works to his credit. Classical guitarist John Williams performs two of Andrew's original compositions from 'Perfect Sky" in his concerts. The arrangement "Selections from the Nutcracker Suite" for two classical guitars has been broadly acclaimed as a "Masterpiece of arranging for classical guitar".

Andrew York

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