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The music of American composer Andrew Sigler favors color-driven harmony, modal inflection, and evolving harmonic fields over strict tonal direction, while forms unfold as compelling arcs shaped through texture, pacing, and transformation. His orchestration emphasizes instrumental color and layered sonorities, creating music that is expressive, atmospheric, and guided by a strong sense of dramatic and narrative development. 

Winner of the 2014 Suzanne and Lee Ettelson award, he has twice been a prizewinner in The Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers and a finalist for the Earplay Donald Aird Composers Competition as well as  multiple categories of  the American Prize. He has been a composer fellow at the Composers Conference, the Seasons Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival. Sigler’s music has been premiered at the World Saxophone Congress, The International Horn Symposium, NACUSA and SCI National Festivals, the Oregon Bach Festival, the International Tuba Euphonium Association Conference, the TUTTI Festival, the Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Nief-Norf, Open Space Festival of New Music, and Fast>>Forward>>Austin, among others. Andrew has written for Opera News and he was for three years a regional editor for NewMusicBox, the online presence for New Music USA. He is past president of the National Association of Composers, USA.

His background in the commercial field includes studio work as a guitarist and vocalist as well as composition and sound design for video games, advertising, and animation for a number of clients including Microsoft, Google, T-Mobile, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. “Broke Down Outside El Paso” won the 2006 East West Quantum Leap composition award for best use of their “Colossus” software. His string arrangements were featured in the award-winning Barbara Smith Conrad documentary “When I Rise”.

Andrew holds degrees in Theory/Composition and Classical Guitar Performance. He studied composition with Russell Pinkston, Donald Grantham, Dan Welcher, and James Guthrie, and participated in master classes with composers Mario Davidovsky, Robert Beaser, Melinda Wagner, Eric Chasalow, Michael Torke, Stephen Hartke and Daron Hagen, as well as guitarists Manuel Barrueco, Eliot Fisk, Tom Wolfe, and Adam Holzman. He is an Associate Professor of Music Composition and area coordinator for Theory/Composition/Technology at the University of Tennessee. Please visit andrewsigler.com for more information.

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The music of American composer Andrew Sigler favors color-driven harmony, modal inflection, and evolving harmonic fields over strict tonal direction, while forms unfold as compelling arcs shaped through texture, pacing, and transformation. His orchestration emphasizes instrumental color and layered sonorities, creating music that is expressive, atmospheric, and guided by a strong sense of dramatic and narrative development. 

Winner of the 2014 Suzanne and Lee Ettelson award, he has twice been a prizewinner in The Robert Avalon International Competition for Composers and a finalist for the Earplay Donald Aird Composers Competition. He has been a composer fellow at the Composers Conference, the Seasons Festival, and the Oregon Bach Festival. His music has been performed at the World Saxophone Congress, The International Horn Symposium, NACUSA and SCI National Festivals, and the Oregon Bach Festival among others.

His background in the commercial field includes studio work as a guitarist and vocalist as well as composition and sound design for video games, advertising, and animation for a number of clients including Microsoft, Google, T-Mobile, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Andrew is an Associate Professor of Music Composition and area coordinator for Theory/Composition/Technology at the University of Tennessee and past president of the National Association of Composers, USA. Please visit andrewsigler.com for more information.

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The music of American composer Andrew Sigler is shaped by color-driven harmony, modal inflection, and evolving harmonic fields, with forms guided by texture, pacing, and transformation. His orchestration emphasizes instrumental color and layered sonorities, creating expressive, atmospheric works with a strong narrative sense. His concert music has been performed throughout the U.S. and internationally, and his commercial work includes projects for Microsoft, Google, and T-Mobile. He is Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of Tennessee. More: andrewsigler.com