Andrew Lewis - Composer

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"[His music] possesses the ability to transport the listener to somewhere beyond the concrete and the everyday while apparently originating from within it."
Stuart Marshall, The Sound Projector

Andrew Lewis is a composer based in North Wales (UK). His music is primarily concerned with the materiality of sound, and often uses technology in its realisation and performance. He is especially interested in exploring the latent musicality of everyday sounds as a means of connecting more directly with listeners. His output ranges from 'acousmatic' music (heard solely on multiple loudspeakers) to orchestral and chamber works, often (but not exclusively) including technology. (Read more...)

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LATEST NEWS

'Two Lakes' US premiere

15 Nov 2025 – 'Two Lakes' received its US premiere in Baltimore as part of High Zero's Diffusion Festival. The progrmme was an concert of all-British music curated by Annie Mahtani.

New installation to commemorate 'Dolgarrog 100'

2 Nov 2025 – new installation piece 'Dolgarrog: Atsain' was premiered in Dolgarrog, Conwy as part of the commemorations of the centenary of the Dolgarrog Dam Disaster, which claimed 16 lives in 1925. By pulling a bell rope, visitors could trigger one of 16 sonic transformations of the bell, each infused with an echo of the name of one of the victims. The piece ran in parallel with Alice Priggen's soundscape 'Dolgarrog: Resonance'.

Premiere of '1700' installation

20 Oct 2025 – new installation piece '1700' was premiered at Birmingham University as part of BEAST's 'Sonic Intervention'. Celebrating the university's 125th anniversary, the piece was projected from speakers at the top of the 'Old Joe' clocktower, and across the campus. Andrew Lewis was one of 32 composers invited to create short pieces to be triggered with the chimes of the clock, each day between 20 and 25 October.

'Dark Glass' at Forum Wallis Prix Ars Electronica

22 May 2025 – 'Dark Glass' will be performed at Forum Wallis as part of its Ars Electronica Selection concert. Curated by Simone Conforti (IRCAM), the concert will be on 29 May in Münster, Switzerland.

Premiere of 'Soundings' for 15 brass and electronics

14 Mar 2025 – Andrew Lewis's new work 'Soundings', for 15 brass players and electronics, will receive its World Premiere on 14 April at the Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY. The spatial aspect of 'Soundings' uses the music trace out the patterns of the Thermohaline Circulation, a global system of ocean currents which move heat around the planet and are inextricably linked to the global climate.

Premiere of 'Singing Light' for soprano and electronics

16 Feb 2025 – A new work for soprano and electronics, 'Singing Light' received its World Premiere at the Bangor Music Festival. The work is a setting of Dylan Thomas's famous poem 'In My Craft Or Sullen Art', and was performed by soparano Deborah Norin-Kuehn, for whom it was written.

'Two Lakes' Chinese premiere at Musicacoustica-Hangzhou 2024

24 Sep 2024 – 'Two Lakes' received its Chinese premiere at Musicacoustic-Hangzhou 2024 on 24 September, where Andrew Lewis was a featured composer. 'Two Lakes' uses sonified climate change data, and Andrew also delivered a lecture on data sonification techniques used in some of his latest works.

'Cori Spezzati' awarded Mention in Concurso Destellos 2024

13 Oct 2024 – 'Cori Spezzati' was awarded an Honourable Mention in the Concurso Destellos 2024, Mar del Plata, Argentina. It was broadcast in the prizewinners concert on Radio Beethoven on 6 Nov 2024.

'Cori Spezzati' awarded Mention in Concours Métamophoses 2024

16 Aug 2024 – 'Cori Spezzati' was awarded a Honourable Mention in the Concours Métamorphoses 2024, Brussels. It will be performed as part of the Espace du Son festival in Brussels on 16 October 2024.

'In Memory' shortlisted for ISCM World New Music Days 2025

15 May 2024 – 'In Memory' has been shortlisted for the ISCM World New Music Days 2025 in Lisbon. It was one of six works by composers of Wales nominated by Ty Cerdd.

'Two Lakes' wins PRIX CIME 2023

03 Nov 2023 – 'Two Lakes' has been awarded the PRIX CIME 2023 at the General Assembly of the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME-ICEM) in Rethymno, Greece. PRIX CIME is the main prize awarded every two years by CIME-ICEM. 'Two Lakes' was also performed as the prize winning work in a special concert at the CIME-ICEM Electroacoustic Music Days 2023 on November 3.