Andrew Seager Cole
... is a composer, guitarist, and media artist splitting his time between Appleton, Wisconsin and Kansas City, Missouri. He has written contemporary acoustic and electro-acoustic music, collaborated with film makers, directors, artists, dancers, and taken part in a number of interactive instillations. He is a founding member of the Baltimore based new music group AfterNow and servered a two year term as the vice president of the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance.
In January 2013 Andrew will be studying at the New Zealand School of Music on a Fulbright Award. Until this fall he was a Chancellor's Doctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri Kansas City. He has a BA in philosophy and music at Goucher college, and MM's in both Computer Music and Composition at Peabody Conservatory. Until the summer of 2008 he worked as the Johns Hopkins Unversity Digital Media Center's Digital Audio Specialist and taught digital media at Johns Hopkins University and electronic music at Loyola College of Maryland.
He is the recipient of several awards including first place in the 2008 National Association of Composers USA Young Composers Compeition, the Otto Ortman award, the Robert Hall Lewis award, a computer music graduate assistantship at the Peabody Conservatory, and First Place in the 2006 Prix d' Ete competition. In 2001 he received a Strategic Planning Grant from Goucher College for the Perpendicular Dialogues multimedia exhibition. The dance and music elements of the exhibition were eventually taken to the Edinborough Dance Festival.
His works have been performed throughout the world at events and festivals such as June in Buffalo, The International Compture Music Conference, the University of Cincinnati Music 08 Festival, Connecticut College's Symposium on Art and Technology, Brooklyn College's International Electroacoustic Music Festival, the North American Saxophone Alliance Conference, the National Flue Association Conference, the Mer!Klang Festival in Frieberg Germany, the San Francisco Contemporary Festival, the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music United States Conference, the International Computer Music Conference, Baltimore's Artscape Festival, Electronic Music Midwest Festival, and the Florida Electronic Music Festival. His works have been performed by The Da Capo Chamber Players, Ensemble Surplus, the Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, Stanley Alexandrowicz, The University of Nebraska Omaha Ensemble Artifical Music Initive, the Duke New Music Ensemble, Jeremy Bagoyus, Brian Sacawa, and many others.
Contact: andrew [at] twocomposers.org
Curriculum Vitae: Andrew_Cole_CV