Andrew Carter
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Life
Born: 1939
Andrew Carter was born in 1939 into a Leicestershire family of tower and handbell ringers. Following a music degree at the University of Leeds, he joined York Minster choir as a bass songman under the direction of Francis Jackson. For a decade, he was also Director of Music at the Bar Convent Grammar School, where he achieved his first successes as a choir trainer.
In 1965 he founded the Chapter House Choir at York Minster. During his 17-year conductorship, the group became nationally well known for its various awards in the BBC Let the Peoples Sing competition. In 1984 Andrew and his family were invited to New Zealand for a year, where he was Director of the Auckland Dorian Choir, University Chamber Choir and Youth Choir. On returning to York, his career as a freelance composer began to blossom.
Carter has composed several large-scale works for choir, soloists and orchestra, including the Benedicite, which has been widely performed on both sides of the Atlantic and in the Antipodes. Horizons and Musick's Jubilee were commissioned and premièred by British choral societies, whilst Te Deum, and more recently Maryland Magnificat (2002) were both written for American Lutheran choirs.
In the field of Church music, still close to his heart, Carter is regularly asked to write for choir and organ. One such invitation was for the Missa Sancti Pauli for the 1997 tercentenary celebrations of Wren's St Paul's Cathedral. Carols such as A Maiden most gentle and Oh, how joyfully (which was commissioned St Olaf Choir, Minnesota and received its first performance on American television in 2001), continue to be deservedly popular.
As a composer and choir director Andrew Carter has travelled extensively in the United States, and he regularly workshops his music at home and abroad.
Andrew is a composer at the Oxford University Press where the above bio was borrowed from.
List of choral works
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- Horizons
- Laudate Dominum
- Musick’s Jubilee
- Song of Stillness
- Te Deum
- A Blake Triptych
- Bless the Lord
- Deep peace
- Everyone sang
- Galloping Godiva
- The Holly and the Ivy
- Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
- Lullay my liking
- A maiden most gentle (arr.)
- Maria Walks amid the Thorn
- Missa Brevis
- Mistletoe Carol
- Music Comes
- Sweet was the song the virgin sang
- Te Deum: Children’s Choir
- An Affirmation
- Christ is the morning starRobin is saying his prayers (arr.)
- Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire
- Deep peace
- Dives and Lazarus (arr.)
- Easter Alleluya
- Go before us, O Lord
- God be in my head
- God be merciful unto us and bless us
- God is Love
- Good Day, Sir Cristemas
- Hodie Christus natus est
- Holy spirit, truth divine
- I do like to be beside the seaside
- I saw three ships (arr.)
- Joy is come! (arr.)
- The lark in the clear air (arr.)
- The light of the world
- The Lord is my shepherd
- Love one another
- Mary’s Magnificat
- A maiden most gentle (arr.)
- May the mystery of God
- Mirabile misterium
- Missa Sancti Pauli
- The Morning Star (An Advent Carol)
- Nightingale carol (arr.)
- No man is an island
- Nomen eius Emmanuel
- O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr.)
- O how joyfully
- O Lord, open thou our lips
- O Mistress Mine
- O praise God in his holiness
- Praise the Lord, O my soul
- Prayer of peace
- Rejoice in the Lord alway
- The Teddy Bears’ Picnic (arr.)
- They that go down to the sea in ships
- Two Spanish carols (arr.)
- Venezuelan Carol
- Wakefield Service (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
- When, in our music, God is glorified
- Where shall wisdom be found?
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