ANDREW DEWAR

His musical career started at an early age; he began playing the organ at his local church in Yeovil (Somerset) at the age of nine. With a scholarship to Wells Cathedral School he studied the organ with Rupert Gough and David Sanger. From 1999–2000 he was Organ Scholar at Wells Cathedral before moving to Germany where he studied at the Musikhochschule, Stuttgart, with Ludger Lohmann.

He was winner of the St Albans International Organ Competition and has also won further competitions, inter alia Dublin, Wiesbaden, Berlin and Landau an der Isar, plus prizes in Montreal, Schramberg and Erfurt. Andrew’s concert diary has taken him on tours to North America, Russia and frequent engagements throughout Europe. Andrew Dewar has been Organist at the American Cathedral, Paris, since 2010 where he is currently overseeing one of the most significant organ restoration and reconfiguration projects currently underway in France. He is in demand as a teacher and has held positions as professor of organ at the Royal College of Music in London, and visiting professor of organ at the Royal Irish Academy of Music in Dublin. He is also an advocate for the rare Art Harmonium. He performs and records regularly on the instrument and has created a number of chamber music arrangements featuring it. Andrew Dewar has also transcribed major orchestral and piano works for organ, most notably Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. A number of these arrangements are published by Lyrebird Music.