Andrew Boysen

Andrew Boysen

Andrew Boysen, Jr. is a composer and conductor who has appeared with high school, festival and university ensembles across the United States and Great Britain.

Biography

Boysen graduated from Cedar Rapids Jefferson High School. In 1991, Boysen earned his Bachelor of Music degree in music education and music composition from the University of Iowa, and in 1993 he received his Master of Music degree in wind conducting from Northwestern University. He then went on to earn his Doctor of Musical Arts degree (also in wind conducting) from the Eastman School of Music, where he was the conductor of the Eastman Wind Orchestra and assistant conductor of the Eastman Wind Ensemble.

After his education Boysen became the Director of Bands at Cary-Grove High School in Illinois and was the music director and conductor of the Deerfield Community Concert Band. Boysen eventually came to serve as an assistant professor and Acting Associate Director of Bands at Indiana State University, where he taught in the music education department, in addition to directing the Marching Sycamores and conducting the symphonic band.

He is currently an assistant professor in the music department at the University of New Hampshire, where he is the Director of Bands. His duties consist of conducting the wind symphony as well as teaching various subjects including conducting, musical composition and orchestration. He continues to maintain an active schedule as a composer and receives commissions for the Cedar Rapids Metropolitan Orchestra Festival, the Iowa All-State Band, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, and the Nebraska State Bandmasters Association as well as many high school and university concert bands throughout the United States.

Awards

Boysen has twice won the Claude T. Smith Memorial Band Composition Contest: the first time in 1991 for “I Am” and again in 1994 for “Ovations”. He won the University of Iowa Honors Composition Prize in 1991 and in 2000 won the International Horn Society Composition Contest. [ [http://www.kjos.com/detail.php?division=1&table=author&auth_id=129 Neil A Kjos Music Company ] ]

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