Andrew Byrne is a New York-based composer, who has written works for film, dance, theater, and the concert hall. His music, which always betrays a fascination with polyrhythm, is influenced by American experimental music and non-Western music traditions.
Recent performances of his works include White Bone Country at MATA Festival in Brooklyn, Dragnet at John Zorn’s The Stone in New York; Cradle Song by Either/Or in New York, Lines Towards a New Century at Endgame Festival in Melbourne, When Worlds Collide (commissioned by Ethos Percussion Group and the Lark Quartet) at Scandinavia House in New York. [in]visible voices, a documentary by filmmaker Gideon Boaz, for which Byrne wrote the soundtrack, is currently showing on Israeli cable television and has been screened at film festivals in Canada, US, and Brazil. His piece Six Dances has just been released on Move Records, recorded by pianist Michael Kieran Harvey.
Upcoming projects his multimedia-theater piece The Othersiders: New Australians in Paraguay for three singers and samplers, Cries and Whispers for Astra Choir in Melbourne, and another collaboration with artist Tom Nicholson and Elysium String Quartet in Bath, UK.
Byrne is also very interested in concert programming and currently works on the artistic programming staff at Carnegie Hall with particular responsibility for large-scale festivals.