Andrew Carter

Andrew Carter was born at Wigston Magna, Leicestershire, in 1939. He studied music at Leeds University before settling in York, where he joined the York Minster Choir as a bass. In 1965 he founded the Chapter House Choir at York Minster Cathedral, a mixed voice ensemble, which continued under his direction for seventeen years and achieved national renown. He wrote much of his early published arrangements for this choir.

Andrew was Director of Music at the Bar Convent Grammar School, where he achieved his first successes as a choir trainer. (The Bar Convent School closed in 1985 becoming All Saints Roman Catholic School, just down the road, but the original building is still in use as conference rooms etc.)

Andrew spent a year in New Zealand in 1984, conducting and adjudicating, and when he returned he returned to England he focused on composition. Since that time he has had a long association with the Oxford University Press and largely through this medium he has established an international reputation as a writer of choral music, both miniatures and larger scale works for chorus and orchestra. He has travelled extensively in Europe and the Antipodes as a choral director.