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Andrew March was born in Nuneaton in Warwickshire, United Kingdom in 1973. He studied composition with Jeremy Dale Roberts at the Royal College of Music, London, gaining BMus (Hons) in 1996.

For his graduation he wrote Easdale; a three-movement, programmatic work for full orchestra which received its first performance with Edwin Roxburgh conducting the RCM Symphony Orchestra. On graduation, Andrew was awarded the United Music Publishers Prize, a Constant & Kit Lambert Award, and for Easdale, the Royal Philharmonic Society Composition Prize 1996.

His orchestral piece Marine - à travers les arbres won first prize in the 1998 Masterprize International Composing Competition, and has been recorded by the BBC for the European Broadcasting Union and by the London Symphony Orchestra in Abbey Road Studios for EMI Classics Debut Series under conductor Daniel Harding.  The piece has been played by British orchestras such as the LSO and the BBC Philharmonic and has received a total of 13 international live performances including the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra under conductor Mischa Damev and the European Union Youth Orchestra under Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Andrew has been involved in several collaborative projects where bespoke compositions have been written for choirs such as the chapel choir of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, leading to the release of a CD with Lammas Records.  In 2001, Nymphéas for Two Pianos was written for pianist brother's duo Peter & Patrik Jablonski, who gave the World première in the Royal Palace Stockholm in the Autumn of 2002, and then followed with a tour that programmed the piece in and around Scandinavia.

In July 2005, A Stirring in the Heavenlies (2000) was successfully recorded, (in full), by the Kiev Philharmonic under composer/conductor Robert Ian Winstin for the landmark 12-CD series Masterworks of the New Era on ERM Media label. 

Later in 2005, Equipoise, a 7-minute technically challenging 'test piece" for Bass Clarinet & Piano was one of four pieces to receive an honourable mention in the World Bass Clarinet Convention Composition Competition (Netherlands).  The jury consisted of Klaas de Vries, David Loeb, Klaus Ager and Henri Bok.

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