The Barbershop Music Company

www.andrewsmithviolin.com

 

Andrew is an award winning violinist with an international career performing and teaching in Europe, Asia and America. As director of String Sessions Online, the leading remote recording service for strings, he has collaborated on music for Film, TV, Theatre, Gaming, Albums and Advertising, while as a recording artist he has appeared on such labels as ASV, Sony Classics, Silva, Mahin Media & VUCA. He has also been a featured artist on TV and radio in the US, UK, Italy, Portugal and China.

 

As a winner of the Royal Academy of Music's  award for 16th Century Counterpoint, his arrangements and orchestrations range from small orchestra arrangements of operas by Mozart, Verdi and Donizetti to choral renditions of Michael Jackson and string arrangements of Dick Dale, Journey, Britney Spears and AC/DC!

 

Andrew is Executive Director of two specialist music schools in the US and from 2004 to 2011 was Artistic Director of the Stamford International Music Festival, UK.

 

 

LIVE PERFORMANCES

• British Embassy, Paris

• Cultural Center, Chicago

• Carnegie Hall, NY

• Edinburgh International Music Festival

• Le Salle Gaveau, Paris

• Lincoln Center, NY

• Orchestra Hall, Detroit

• Royal Festival Hall, London

• Royal Albert Hall, London

• St. Martin in the Fields, London

• St. Johns Smith Square, London

• Stamford International Music Festival

• Symphony Hall, Chicago

 

RADIO/TV BROADCASTS

• ITV

• BBC

• Chanel Four Films

• Chicago Public Television

 

LABELS

• ASV

• Mahin Media

• Silva

• Sony Classics

• VUCA

 

ARRANGEMENTS

• BBC - Michael Jackson "Beat It"

• European Chamber Opera - Il Trovatore

• European Chamber Opera - Magic Flute

• European Chamber Opera - Rigolletto

• Heart of England Opera - Cenorentolla