Andrew Cusworth

Profile

Broadcasts

• Compositions & Arrangements
• Gosber, on Côr Cymru, S4C, April 2017.
• Gosber, on Dechrau Canu, S4C, February 2017.
• Give ear, O ye heavens, on The Choir, BBC Radio 3, 12^th June 2011.
• Interviews
• Choir Chat, Choir Chat Podcast, 3^rd October 2017.
• The Choir, BBC Radio 3, 12^th June 2011.

Competitions

• Won
• Inaugural New music for St Paul's Cathedral composition competition, 2010, supported by the Boltini Trust.
• Shortlisted
• King James Bible Composition Awards 2011.

Education

• PhD, Open University, 2012-2016
• MMus Choral Studies, University of Cambridge, 2010-2011
• BA Music, University of Cambridge, 2003-2006

Presentations & public speaking

• Conference Papers
• Tuag at gwlad gân digidol, at Cymdeithas Alawon Gwerin conference, September 2015.
• Legacy [and] media: Re-encoding the national music of Wales, in The arts and their audiences panel at PhD Student Conference, The Open University, Milton Keynes, 28^th June 2014.
• The nineteenth century and the forging of a Welsh musical identity at the 2013 Biennial Music in Nineteenth Century Britain Conference, Cardiff, 25^th June 2013.
• The J. Lloyd Williams diaries: A musician’s notes to himself at The Listening Experience Database Project - Wales Study Day, The Open University in Wales, Cardiff, 23^rd May 2014.
• Welsh traditional music: An interfac[et]ed approach, revised with new examples, at Ethnomusicology in the digital age, BFE/ICTM-Ireland Joint Conference, Belfast, 5^th April 2013.
• Welsh traditional music: An interfaceted approach, Music Department Research Day, Open University, Milton Keynes, 15^th November 2012.
• Public presentations
• Echoes and amplifications, Y Drwm, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 1.15 p.m. 18^th January 2014.
• Seminars
• Towards a digital land of song, Education room, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, 10:00 a.m. 12^th June 2015.

Publications

• Articles & papers
• Alawon Gwerin Môn: towards a reception history, Canu Gwerin, 2017.
• What makes the Digital Special? The Research Program in Digital Collections at the National Library of Wales co-authored with Lorna Hughes, Rhian James, Owain Roberts and Lloyd Roderick, New Review of Academic Librarianship.
• Compositions & Arrangements
• Gosber, Curiad, 2017.
• Adam lay ibounden, Novello, 2014.
• Ave maris stella, Choir & Organ, 2012.
• There is no rose, Novello, 2011.
• Interviews
• New music, in Choir & Organ magazine March/April 2012.

Recordings: Audio

• Compositions & Arrangements
Of a rose synge we on The silver stars at play performed by Kantos Chamber Choir under Ellie Slorach, Prima Facie Records, December 2017.
• From Castle Hill on The Nostalgic Recorder performed by John Turner and The Manchester Chamber Ensemble, Prima Facie Records, June 2015.
• There is no rose on Noël! 3 performed by RSVP Singers under David Hill, November 2013.
• Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Drop down, ye heavens and There is no rose on Bright Shadows performed by Concanenda under Alexandra Schwinn, Concanenda, November 2013.
• Steal away to Jesus, on Sounds from St. Mary's, performed by singers and instrumentalists from Ysgol Greenhill School under Paul Rapi, Just Music productions, July 2007.

Recordings: Audiovisual

• Compositions & Arrangements
• Drop down, ye heavens, music video performed by Crepusculum chamber choir under Alexandra Schwinn, November 2011.

Residencies

• Composer in Residence, Concanenda, 2013-2014

Scholarships

• AHRC Capacity Building Block Grant PhD Studentship 2012-2014
• Organ Scholar, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2003-2006
• Philip Carne Bursary, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 2003-2004
• Organ Scholar, St Mary's Church, Tenby, 1999-2003

Research

Alawon Gwerin Môn

A paper and digital reception history of Grace Gwyneddon Davies' Alawon Gwerin Môn.

Towards a digital land of song

A multimodal PhD submission regarding the archival record of the performance and reception of Welsh traditional music. The research was undertaken under the auspices of the Open University and the National Library of Wales, and was supported by an AHRC capacity building block grant.

Tuition

Andrew maintains a small practice of private tuition in the Aberystwyth area. He offers lessons in cello, organ, piano, and voice, as well as in composition, aural skills, music theory and historical topics. If you would like to book lessons with Andrew, please contact him via the contact page.

He is also available as a cellist, organist, and singer.