Andrew March

March was the 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition prize winner.{{cite web |title=Past Recipients |url=https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rps-composers-programme/past-recipients-2000-to-date/past-comp-prize-48-99 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819210919/https://royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk/composers/rps-composers-programme/past-recipients-2000-to-date/past-comp-prize-48-99 |archive-date=19 August 2022 |access-date=1 May 2023 |website=Royal Philharmonic Society |language=en}} In 1997, his symphonic poem Easdale was included on the Society for the Promotion of New Music (SPNM) shortlist.{{Cite web |title=Easdale {{!}} British Music Collection |url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/easdale |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=britishmusiccollection.org.uk |quote=Additional Information: spnm shortlist 1997.}}

Marine—à travers les arbres{{cite web|title=Prom 63, 1998. EUYO under Vladimir Ashkenazy|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCDKK9y--F8|website=YouTube| date=17 October 2011 }} was featured at 1998's Proms,{{cite web|title=Prom 63|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/ex39rz|website=BBC Music Events}} with the EUYO conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

His composition "A Stirring in the Heavenlies", a commission awarded as a prize by The Musician's Company in 1998,{{Cite book |last=Crewdson |first=Richard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xTngdiBXMG8C |title=Apollo's Swan and Lyre: Five Hundred Years of the Musicians' Company |date=2000 |publisher=Boydell & Brewer |isbn=978-0-85115-766-5 |page=225 |language=en |lccn=99054373 |quote=In 1998, on the initiative of Sir Alan Traill, the Company participated in the sponsorship of the international 'Masterprize' competition sponsored by Coutts Bank. The Company's prize was a commission worth £10,000 for a work to be specially written for performance during the Quincentenary year ... In the event the first prize and the Company's prize were awarded to the same finalist, the English composer Andrew March, who is engaged on the new commission as this book goes to press.}} was recorded by the Kyiv Philharmonic under composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin for the 12–CD series "Masterworks of the New Era".{{cite web|title=Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Seven|url=https://open.spotify.com/album/7dyYsgxkGSW1xQJa9ZvX3w|website=Spotify|language=en|date=1 January 2006}}{{cite web |last1= |first1= |date=1 January 2005 |title=Andrew March – A Stirring in the Heavenlies, for orchestra |url=https://www.classicalarchives.com/work/449306.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160913150637/https://www.classicalarchives.com/work/449306.html |archive-date=13 September 2016 |website=classicalarchives.com}}

Sanguis Venenatus (2009) was an elegy written by March in memory of Haemophiliacs affected by the Tainted Blood Scandal. It was recorded by the Moravian Philharmonic with conductor Petr Vronský.{{cite web|title=Thursday – Verity Sharp, Late Junction – BBC Radio 3|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06g6456|website=BBC}}{{cite web|title=Sanguis Venenatus – Andrew March & Moravian Philharmonic Strings Song – BBC Music|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/tracks/n3x4nm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802015204/https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/tracks/n3x4nm|url-status=dead|archive-date=2018-08-02|website=BBC}}{{cite web|title=Composers – Alliance Publications, Inc.|url=http://www.apimusic.org/march-andrew-b.1973.html|website=apimusic.org|language=en}}{{cite web|title=Gramophone – March 2013|url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/34724/page/9|website=reader.exacteditions.com}}{{cite web|title=Reviews – Todmorden Orchestra|url=https://www.todmordenorchestra.org.uk/reviews/|website=Todmorden Orchestra}}{{cite web|title=Dimensions – Works for String Orchestra|url=https://www.eclassical.com/shop/17115/art66/4717266-4e7070-0896931000956.pdf|website=EClassical.com|publisher=Navona Records}}

• 1990 Flame of Youth Fanfare Competition (British Gas West Midlands){{cite web|title=Official website of Andrew March – Awards|url=https://andrewmarch.com/awards.html|website=andrewmarch.com}}
• 1993 English Song Prize {{cite web |last=Rees |first=Carla |date=2001 |title=Wise Music Classical – Biography |url=https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/989/Andrew-March/ |access-date=1 May 2023 |website=musicsalesclassical.com |language=en}}
• 1994 United Music Publishers' Prize
• 1995 Cobbett & Hurlstone Prize
• 1995 The Philip Morris Art Award (The Haemophilia Society){{cite journal |author= |date=June 1995 |title=Society Awards |url=https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/575900/response/1393721/attach/11/The%20Bulletin%20No.2%201995.pdf |journal=The Bulletin |issue=2 |pages=9 |publisher=The Haemophilia Society |access-date=2021-11-18|quote=The Philip Morris Art Award was presented by Kevin Morris to Andrew March, who is in his third year of a BMus degree in Composition at the Royal College of Music London.}}
• 1996 Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize
• 1996 Constant and Kit Lambert Award – (Musicians' Livery){{cite journal |last1=Derbyshire. |first1=George |date= September 1998 |title=A double win for Andrew March |url= https://www.wcomarchive.org.uk/--ph-17 |journal= Preserve Harmony – the Newsletter of the Worshipful Company of Musicians |issue=17 |page=2 |access-date=December 10, 2019}}
• 1998 Masterprize International Composing CompetitionPettitt, Stephen. [https://web.archive.org/web/20060323064038/http://www.masterprize.com/press98/articles/sundaytimesApril98.html "Taste of Things to Come – New music has no platform than Masterprize."], The Sunday Times, London, 12 April 1998. Retrieved on 19 December 2019.
• 1998 Worshipful Company of Musicians Quincentenary Commission (Musicians' Livery)
• 2004 International Composition Competition to Honour the Greek Poet, Pindar{{cite web|title=Hellenikon Idyllion – International Composition Competition|url=https://www.idyllion.eu/alt/en/wettbewerb03.html|website=idyllion.eu}}

{{Cite web|url=https://andrewmarch.com/works.html|title=Andrew March – Works|website=andrewmarch.com|access-date=2020-01-20}}{{Cite web|url= https://musicalics.com/en/composer/Andrew-March|title=Andrew March – Composition List|website=musicalics.com|date=17 December 2009 |access-date=2019-12-12}}

• Easdale (1996){{cite web | title=British Music Collection (BMIC)|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/andrew-march|website=britishmusiccollection.org.uk|date=4 April 2009 |access-date=2019-12-23}}{{Cite web |last=March |first=Andrew |title=Easdale |url=https://entities.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCG487GFkWhMWWH9GtwQxwC.html |access-date=2024-10-19 |website=entities.oclc.org |quote=1996 Creation date.}}
• Marine—à travers les arbres (1997)
• Irish Reel (2000){{cite web | title=Royal College of Music (RCM) Library Catalogue|url=https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:%22March,%20Andrew,%22|website=rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-23}}
• A Stirring in the Heavenlies (2000), commissioned by the Worshipful Company of Musicians
• Five Songs of Pindar (2003) for soprano, choir and orchestra
• Sanguis Venenatus (2009) for string orchestra, written in memory of haemophiliacs and others who lost their lives as a result of the Tainted Blood Scandal
• Cellular Automata Orchestral Suite (2009–13)

::Gosper′s Glider Gun

::The Infinite Hotel

::Cloverleaf Period–4 Oscillator

::Babbling Brook

::Pond on Pond

• Amoration (2016) for piano and strings{{cite web | title=Most widely held works by Andrew March

|url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no00037397/|website=worldcat.org|access-date=2019-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060323063940/http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-no00037397/|archive-date=2006-03-23}}

• Piano Concerto No. 1 (2013–19)
• The Skylark (2021) for full orchestra and SSAA voices. Text: John Clare

• Flame of Youth Fanfare (1990) for brass ensemble of 12 players
• Nymphéas (1995) for 8 players
• Ten Little Pieces (1995) for 8 players
• Music for Film Credits (1996) for 9 players
• Adagio Assonnato (2000) for oboe, harp, strings
• Nymphéas for Clarinet Choir (2016)
• Elegy on Sudden Loss (2021) for string orchestra

• La Maison Blanche dans les Collines (1986) for string quartet
• Cornelyn (1986) for piano and strings
• Images of the Lake (1987) for solo flute
• Transient Moods (1992) for guitar solo
• Nymphèas for Two Pianos (2001), revised (2019){{Cite web |last=Silver-Garburg |first=Sivan |last2=Garburg |first2=Gil |title=Repertoire piano duo FSMM 2025 |url=https://assets.muvac.com/competitions/kyrqv741/docs/476798/1719839263813-repertoire_piano_duo_fsmm_2025.pdf?download |website=assets.muvac.com |page=5 |via=Franz Schubert and Modern Music International Competition |quote=March, Andrew: Nymphéas for Two Pianos (2001) Da Vinci Edition.}}
• Alto Flute and Harp Book (2001){{cite thesis |type=MMus |last=Fether |first=Doborah C. |date=2005 |title=A Discussion of Contemporary Flute Design and the Issues Surrounding these Developments |url=https://www.kingmaflutes.com/documenten/fether_diss.pdf |publisher=Goldsmiths College: University of London}}

:: Water Lilies with Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute ossia

:: XXIX—in perpetuum for solo Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute

:: Adagio Assonnato

:: Aeolian Rustling with Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute ossia

:: Dragonfly

• In Memoriam (2002) for Kingma System quarter–tone alto flute, marimba, vibraphone, harp and strings
• Equipoise (2005) for bass clarinet and piano
• String Quartet Cycle "Birds of Prey'' (2009)
• Irish Reel—Piano Transcription (2009) for piano solo
• Phoenix Trail (2010) for violin and piano
• Three Pieces for Solo Cello (2011){{cite web|last1=Hugill|first1=Robert|title=Moto Perpetuo – Cd review|url=https://www.planethugill.com/2013/04/moto-perpetuo-cd-review.html|website=planethugill.com|date=23 September 2013}}
• Solo Piano Album "14 pieces" (2014)
• Ephemeral Nymphs (2015) for cello and piano{{cite web | title=Da Vinci Edition|url=https://davinci-edition.com/product/dv-11484/|website=davinci-edition.com|date=25 November 2019 |access-date=2020-01-23}}
• Dragonfly (2016) for flute, viola and harp{{cite web |title=Dragonfly for flute, viola and harp |url=https://lib.byu.edu/search/byu/record/cat.6785727.item.31197239489609?holding=bh2p5j34u32fg3z1 |access-date=2020-01-04 |website=Library Link Network |via=Brigham Young University (BYU)}}
• Spring Tide Arabesque (2016) for bass clarinet duo
• Nightwind (2016) for flute, violin and cello
• Dragonfly (2017) for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano
• Seven Pieces (2017) for bass clarinet and piano{{Cite web |title=Seven Pieces |url=https://bassclarinet.ecwid.com/March-Seven-Pieces-p145983437 |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=bassclarinet.ecwid.com |id=ALEA1176}}
• Two Pieces (2017) for bass clarinet duo
• Pieces for Alto Saxophone and Piano (2019–2020)

:: Moonrise at Perigee (2019)

:: Nightshade (2020)

:: Romance (2020)

• Solitude (2020) for alto saxophone{{Cite web |title=Solitude : for alto saxophone / Andrew March |url=https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=388385&query_desc=Solitude |access-date=18 June 2025 |website=rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk |via=Royal College of Music Library}}{{Cite web |title=Solitude for alto saxophone |url=https://webopac.bibliothek.hmtm.de/webOPACClient.mhmsis/singleHit.do?methodToCall=showHit&curPos=1&identifier=-1_S_IG.45.15334 |access-date=2025-06-18 |website=webopac.bibliothek.hmtm.de |place=Munich |via=Hochschule für Musik und Theater}}

• Boy in Ice (1992) for mezzo–soprano and piano. Text: Laurie Lee
• Invasion Summer (1993) for mezzo–soprano and 6 players. Text: Laurie Lee
• Black Edge (1993) for mezzo–soprano and 8 players. Text: Laurie Lee
• Poem I from "Chamber Music" (1996) for soprano and harp. Text: James Joyce
• Un Grand Sommeil Noir (2008) for baritone and piano. Text: Paul Verlaine
• Two Lovers (2009) for baritone and piano. Text: George Eliot

• Be Still and Know (2000)
• O Sing Unto the Lord (2000)
• The Grace (2003)
• Magnificat (2004)
• Spiritus (2004)
• Thou Art Worthy (2004){{Cite web |year=2016 |title=Thou Art Worthy |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2017563050&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=catalog.loc.gov}}
• Nunc Dimittis "The Song of Simeon" (2004){{Cite web |title=March, Andrew (1973) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/233092816?keyword=March,%20Andrew%20(1973) |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=trove.nla.gov.au |via=Trove}}
• Phos Hilaron "Song of the Light" (2004){{Cite web |title=Phos Hilaron = Song of the Light {{!}} WorldCat.org |url=https://search.worldcat.org/title/1114017839 |access-date=2024-04-03 |website=search.worldcat.org |language=en |quote=Lammas Records, York, ℗2005}}
• Marian Antiphon No.3 "Regina Caeli" (2005){{Cite web |date=2013 |title=Marian antiphon, no. 3 |url=https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFVX8cyWkyM37JRbWvfrdP |access-date=6 October 2024 |website=id.oclc.org |via=Worldcat Entities |oclc=}}
• Marian Antiphon No.2 "Ave Regina Coelorum" (2005){{Cite web |date=19 August 2024 |title=Ave Regina Coelorum |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2022562701&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=catalog.loc.gov}}
• 25 Choral Collects (2006); Text: Common Worship, Additional Collects
• May We Who Share His Table (2006)
• Creator of the Heavens "Choral Collect for Epiphany" (2006) Text: Common Worship, Additional Collects{{cite web | title=Sunday by Sunday Collection Collection II – Choral Music for the Sunday Eucharist|url=https://www.boosey.com/shop/prod/Various-Sunday-by-Sunday-Collection-II-Choral-Music-for-the-Sunday-Eucharist/2063825|website=boosey.com|access-date=2019-12-30}}
• Psalm 57 (2007)
• Somnia (2007) Text: Petronius Arbiter; Translation: Helen Waddell
• How Long, O Lord? (2008)
• My Voice is Unto God (2008), with organ accompaniment
• May We Who Share His Table (2009) for SSA choir with piano accompaniment
• And It Shall Be (2010)
• De Profundis (2011), for SAATBB choir
• Spera in Domino "Psalm 36" (2012){{Cite web |date=2012 |year= |title=Spera in Domino |url=https://catalog.loc.gov/vwebv/search?searchCode=LCCN&searchArg=2022562724&searchType=1&permalink=y |access-date=2024-10-06 |website=catalog.loc.gov}}
• Dixit Iniustus "Psalm 35" (2012)
• Dies Quoque "Day of Narrow Anguish" (2012)
• Ante Faciem Dei (2015){{cite web | title=Fred Bock Catalog Number AP-10676|url=https://www.fredbock.com/product/ante-faciem-dei-before-the-face-of-god-satb-div-a-cap-satb/|website=fredbock.com|access-date=2021-05-08}}
• Your Eyes Fall Upon Us "Anthem for Remembrance" (2015); Text (adaptation): Sue Threakall{{Cite web |date=28 October 2023 |title=A service of thanksgiving and remembrance |url=https://botolph.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Service-of-Thanksgiving-and-Remembrance-2023.pdf |access-date=3 April 2024 |website=botolph.org.uk |publisher=St Botolph without Bishopsgate |quote=Your Eyes Fall Upon Us (Anthem for Remembrance).}}
• Laudate Dominum (2015)
• Psalm 22 (2015) for SSATB choir
• Your Mercy, O Lord (2016) for SSAA choir with piano accompaniment
• Our God at Hand (2019)
• Lament (2021) for SSAATTBB choir

• 1998 – Top of the World, Marine – à travers les arbres, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Daniel Harding (March 1998, BBC Music Magazine: BBC MM67){{cite book | title=Top of the World| oclc=696442504}}
• 1998 – Masterprize Finalists, Marine – à travers les arbres, London Symphony Orchestra, cond. Daniel Harding (4 September 1998, EMI Debut Series: CDZ572826-2){{cite book | title=Masterprize| oclc=41408903}}
• 2005 – Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Seven, A Stirring in the Heavenlies, Kiev Philharmonic, cond. Robert Ian Winstin (28 November 2005, ERM Media: ERM-6709){{cite web | title=Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Seven|url=https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-ISBDdetail.pl?biblionumber=250030|website=rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-28}}
• 2007 – Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Eleven, Nymphéas, Kiev Philharmonic, cond. Robert Ian Winstin (1 September 2007, ERM Media: ERM-6811){{cite book | title=Masterworks of the New Era – Volume Eleven| oclc=299065528}}
• 2007 – Regina Caeli, Nunc Dimittis; Magnificat; Be Still and Know; Spiritus etc., The Chapel Choir of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, cond. Daniel Soper; Rebecca Drake, (26 October 2007, Lammas Records: LAMM188D){{cite book | title=Regina Caeli| lccn=2013629051}}{{cite web | title=Regina Caeli|url=https://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Apr06/Regina_Caeli_LAMM188D.htm#ixzz69QfJNQCz|website=musicweb-international.com|access-date=2019-12-28}}
• 2012 – Dimensions, Sanguis Venenatus, Moravian Philharmonic Strings, cond. Petr Vronský (13 November 2012, Navona Records: NV5895){{cite book | title=Dimensions – Works for String Orchestra| oclc=1114084658}}
• 2013 – Moto Perpetuo, Three Pieces for Solo Cello, Ovidiu Marinescu (26 March 2013, Navona Records: NV5901){{cite web | title=Moto Perpetuo|url=https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv5901/|website=navonarecords.com|access-date=2019-12-27}}
• 2014 – As if to sleep, Elveden; Nosce Te Ipsum; Moonvine; Pavane; Homage; Night Vigil; Solus etc., pf. Andrew March (29 January 2014, Assonnato Records: ATO573201){{cite web | title=As If To Sleep|url=https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-ISBDdetail.pl?biblionumber=250388|website=rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk|access-date=2019-12-27}}
• 2016 – Amoration, F.A.M.E.'S. Macedonian Radio Symphonic Orchestra, cond. Oleg Kondratenko; pf. Marija Vrskova (18 March 2016, Assonnato Records: ATO573202){{cite web | title=Amoration|url=https://musicbrainz.org/release/dae35e97-afcf-44a3-ad9a-d8ead821ff83/|website=musicbrainz.org|access-date=2019-12-27}}{{cite book | title=Amoration| oclc=1114089500}}
• 2022 – Elegy on Sudden Loss (video), OpenSound Orchestra, cond. Stanislav Malyshev; (22 February 2022, Assonnato Records: ATO573203).{{cite web |url=https://isrcsearch.ifpi.org/#!/search?trackTitle=Elegy%20on%20Sudden%20Loss&releaseName=&tab=search&showReleases&start=0&number=10 |title=Elegy on Sudden Loss |author= |date=21 March 2022 |website=isrcsearch.ifpi.org |publisher=ISRC Search |access-date=26 March 2022}}{{Cite web |title=Elegy on Sudden Loss |url=https://andrewmarch.hearnow.com/ |access-date=2024-10-09 |website=hearnow.com |language=en |quote=...and recorded by OrchestraScoring with the OpenSoundOrchestra under Stanislav Malyshev on 22 February 2022.}}

{{reflist}}

• [https://www.wisemusicclassical.com/composer/989/Andrew-March/ Biography, Wise Music Classical]
• [https://davinci-edition.com/composer/andrew-march/ Da Vinci Edition]
• [https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/composer/andrew-march/ British Music Collection (BMIC)]
• [https://soundcloud.com/andrewmarchcomposer Soundcloud]
• [https://musicalics.com/en/composer/Andrew-March Musicalics, The Classical Composers Database]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4gy-7IlUqg YouTube, (Sanguis Venenatus)]
• [http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=fBniTivSBW/WORKS-FILE/261820015/18/X700/XAUTHOR/March,+Andrew,+1973- British Library (Sound & Moving Image Catalogue)] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313234611/http://cadensa.bl.uk/uhtbin/cgisirsi/?ps=lB14VlUE0C/WORKS-FILE/79020026/18/X702/XAUTHOR/March,+Andrew,+1973- |date=13 March 2023}}
• [http://www.apimusic.org/march-andrew-b.1973.html Alliance Publications, Inc.]
• [https://www.sjmp.com/person/andrew-march/ St. James Music Press (SJMP), North Carolina]
• [https://www.navonarecords.com/artists/andrew-march/ Andrew March - Navona Records]
• [https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:%22March,%20Andrew,%22 RCM Library Catalogue] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230313234927/https://rcm.koha-ptfs.co.uk/cgi-bin/koha/opac-search.pl?q=au:%22March,%20Andrew,%22 |date=13 March 2023}}

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