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Composer
Andrew Boysen is presently an assistant professor in the music department
at the University of New Hampshire, where he conducts the wind symphony and
teaches conducting.
Previously, Boysen served as an assistant professor and Acting Associate
Director of Bands at Indiana State University, where he directed the Marching
Sycamores, conducted the symphonic band and taught in the music education
department.
Prior to that appointment, he was the Director of Bands at Cary-Grove (IL)
High School and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield
Community Concert Band.
He remains active as a guest conductor and clinician, appearing with high
school, university and festival ensembles across the United States and Great
Britain.
Boysen earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting at the
Eastman School of Music, where he served as conductor of the Eastman Wind
Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.
He received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern
University in 1993 and his Bachelor of Music degree in music education and
music composition from the University of Iowa in 1991.
He maintains an active schedule as a composer, receiving commissions from
the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, the Iowa All-State Band, the Rhode
Island All-State Band, the Massachusetts Instrumental and Choral Conductors
Association, the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association, and many university
and high school concert bands across the United States.
Boysen won the International Horn Society Composition Contest in 2000, the
University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and has twice won the
Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest, in 1991 for I Am
and in 1994 for Ovations.
Boysen has several published works with the Neil A. Kjos Music Company,
Wingert-Jones Music, and Ludwig Music, including pieces for band, orchestra,
clarinet and piano, and brass choir.
Recordings of his music appear on the Sony, R-Kal, Mark, St. Olaf, and Elf
labels.
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