

(NYSE) from 2013 until 2018, as President from 2016 until 2018, and as a member of the Board of Directors from 2014 until 2018. Smith served as the Chief Executive Officer of Brookdale Senior Living, Inc. The effect is at once familiar and unsettling in its strangeness – a distorted and original viewpoint on the past.Andy Smith is President and Chief Executive Officer of Vigilant Health and has over 30 years of experience in health care, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, capital markets transactions, and corporate finance. Luke for Oslo Cathedral Choir, and O Antiphons for the Khorikos chamber choir in New York, premiered in December 2019.Īndrew’s musical style is best summed up in the words of Alexandra Coghlan: “…Smith’s compositions incorporate medieval textures and chant, which are reflected and inflected through own contemporary idiom, blurring the modal clarity of plainchant with vivid cluster-chords and dissenting moments of chromatic or dissonant color. Recent commissions include Lukaspasjon, a setting in Norwegian of the Passion according to St. The work is featured on the Nidaros Cathedral Girls Choir album LUX, which was awarded a Grammy for Best Immersive Audio Album in January 2020.Īndrew has been commissioned and performed by numerous choirs in Norway and abroad.

The subsequent recording of this and other music for the Trio brought Andrew to the attention of the American audience and led the way to collaborations with groups such as New York Polyphony and Gothic Voices.Īndrew’s Requiem, composed for the Nidaros Cathedral Girls’ Choir in response to the tragic events in Norway in July 2011, premiered in Trondheim in 2012.

His composing, a hobby since the age of eight, began in earnest in the late 1990s when he wrote a piece for the newly-formed Trio Mediaeval (Norway).

1970) is a British-Norwegian composer with a growing international reputation for choral and vocal music that links tradition with a contemporary idiom.Īndrew read music and English at the University of Oslo.
