Andrew Warshaw

About

Andrew Warshaw is Associate Professor of Music and Dance at Marymount Manhattan College. He is a composer, writer and former dancer whose music and lyrics for theater and dance have premiered at the Zellerbach Theater, Lincoln Center, Dance Theater Workshop in New York, and many other venues. His collaborators have included director/writer George C. Wolfe, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, CONTRABAND, choreographers Sara Shelton Mann, Stephan Koplowitz, Randy Warshaw, and Yoshiko Chuma, and film maker Richard Schlesinger. Warshaw’s current project, The Sparks, The Ringing, an opera about an African-American musicologist with a Hasidic son, has been given support by many foundations and the New York State Council on the Arts, with major sections performed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. 

Over the past several years, Warshaw has been publishing and presenting on how locomotor movement, as reflected in the gestures of musicians playing their instruments, is a significant aspect of musical organization. Presentations include the Music and Evolutionary Thought conference of the Centre for Music and Science of Cambridge University and The Institute for Advanced Study at Durham University, the Philoctetes Center in NYC, the Music of the Spheres Society in NYC, the Composing in the XXIst Century conference of the Université de Montréal, the Festival of the Moving Body at SUNY Stony Brook, and as a featured presenter at the 2012 National Dance Education Organization conference.  Peer-reviewed articles include Music and Medicine, proceedings of the 2013 Computer Music Multidisciplinary Research conference, and Music and Dance. For this work he was a finalist for the 2009 Thatcher Hoffman Smith Prize. 

Warshaw has an ongoing involvement with African-related musics, including work in West Africa as a producer of the NPR series Afropop, a long essay on W. African music and politics called Guinea Dreams, published in The Gettysburg Review, and an ongoing collaboration with Gambian kora player Salieu Suso for The Sparks, The Ringing. He has taught at New York University, Lincoln Center Institute, Carnegie Hall, and Touro College, and has worked as a consultant in arts education for the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. Warshaw holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.F.A. from New York University.