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Instructor Andy Mason

Andy Mason is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and educator.  As a performer, Andy’s fluency across genres comes from a career full of shifting roles.  Beginning as a drummer, Andy’s songwriting urge led to guitar and piano, with a particular affinity for American roots music and New Orleans styles.  An interest in experimentation complements his respect for the great music traditions, often leading to genre mashups in many of his original songs. 

His sound/video piece Feeder, Hummingbird Variations was included in a 2021 exhibition in Rome, Italy, and he collaborated on a multi-media theatre work (Medea Redux) which was presented by the National Theatre of Greece for the Greek Play Project 2021.

Andy has an MFA in Sonic Arts and an MM in Composition from Brooklyn College, where he studied composition with Arturo O’Farrill.  While there, he held composer residencies with Big Band, Jazz Ensemble, Conservatory Orchestra, and Guitar Ensemble, and won the HISAM award for imaginative cross-cultural exploration, and the Noah Creshevsky Award for Experimental Music. 

Andy is currently the elementary choir director at the Cooper School in Charleston.

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