Andrew Digby
Biography
Andrew Digby lived in Sheffield (England) until he was 18 years old. He began to play the piano at a very young age, the trombone aged about 10 and started to compose around 4 years later. He studied from 1986-90 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (trombone with Chris Houlding, Peter Gane and Andrew Berryman) and subsequently spent a year in London as a discographer for the MCPS/National Sound Archive.
Between 1991 and 1995 he studied composition with Mathias Spahlinger at the Music Highschool in Freiburg (Germany). Since then he has been a freelance composer and trombonist working over internationally for many years with ensemble recherche, Ensemble Aventure, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Modern, musikFabrik, Apartment House, Klangforum Wien, PHACE music_on-line vienna and others. Composers with whom he has enjoyed particularly fruitful collaborations include, among numerous others, Klaus Huber, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helmut Lachenmann, Hans-Joachim Hespos, Horatiu Radulescu, Mathias Spahlinger, Cornelius Schwehr, Chris Newman, Peter Ablinger and Wolfram Schurig.
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Andrew Digby is a founder member of ascolta and of the composers slide quartet.
He has fulfilled commissions for Schlagquartett Köln, Ensemble Aventure, ensemble recherche, Sebastian Berweck and Carl Rosman and has arranged for ascolta works including J.S.Bach, Chopin, Brahms, Mahler, Satie, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Klaus Huber and Frank Zappa.
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