Orchestral bookings (since September 2007) ORCHESTRAS Apartment House English National Opera Orchestra English Serenata Excellent Device! Lontano New London Sinfonia Okeanos Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Sinfonia Verdi Sinfonia ViVA The Opera Group SHOWS Les Miserables Mary Poppins   The recital button is inactive   The Repertoire button is inactive.   The Review button is inactive.   The discography button is inactive.   The Outreach button is inactive. sparling_a_713_1.jpgsparling_a_713_2.jpgsparling_a_713_3.jpgsparling_a_713_4.jpgsparling_a_713_6.jpg        The Teaching button is inactive.

Andrew appears regularly with many of the most important Contemporary Music Ensembles in the UK, including the Almeida Opera, Apartment House, Chroma, Double Image, Ensemble Exposé, Gemini, Lontano, Michael Nyman Band.

As a soloist and chamber musician Andrew performs regularly with the pianist, Thalia Myers and he has also joined the Brindisi Quartet to perform the Mozart Clarinet Quintet, and also the first performance of Gabriel Jackson's Quintet: In Prairial and Thermidor. Andrew has given solo and chamber recitals in the UK, Europe, USA, the Far East and the Middle East.

Andrew has been invited to give recitals at the London Festival of Chamber Music, run by the English String Quartet, every year since 2001

In May 2000, he made his concerto debut at the Royal Festival Hall with the Philharmonia playing the Capriccio Notturno by the French composer, Nicholas Bacri.

Andrew also performs on period instruments, and plays principal clarinet in Charles Hazelwood's orchestra The Mozart Collective, taking part in Charles Hazelwood's the BBC 2 drama-documentary series "The Genius of Mozart" broadcast in 2004. Andrew acted the role of clarinettist Anton Stadler and the photo in Andrew's photo gallery (click on the RHS Photo Gallery link) shows him rehearsing Mozart's Clarinet Quintet with the composer.

Andrew's discography includes

• Andrew Sparling - New works for clarinet NMC D092
• Recordings for Divine Arts

Andrew's New Works, NMC D092 cd was reviewed in Music Web.

Orchestral Work
Orchestras: Apartment House, English National Opera Orchestra, English Serenata, Excellent Device!, Lontano, New London Sinfonia, Okeanos, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sinfonia Verdi, Sinfonia ViVA, The Opera Group. Shows: Les Miserables, Mary Poppins.

Andrew's orchestral work also includes the BBC Concert Orchestra (Guest Principal), BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (Bass clarinet), BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (Guest Principal), Philharmonia Orchestra (Guest Principal), London Sinfonietta (Guest Principal, Bass clarinet and Contrabass clarinet), New Kent Opera (Principal), Broomhill Opera (Principal), Tète-è-Téte Opera (Guest Principal), Swansea Ballet Russe, Grange Park Opera (Principal), Excellent Device (Principal and E-flat), Wren Orchestra, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra (Guest Principal), Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (Guest Principal), Opus 20 (Principal), Bournemouth Sinfonietta and Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

Andrew's theatre work includes the west end productions of South Pacific, Brigadoon and the King & I. His studio work includes a CD with the Philharmonia, and sessions for Nick Holland - one session involved Ian Botham jumping in a lake!

Education
Andrew's schooling took place at Bulmershe Comprehensive & Desborough Comprehensive, Maidenhead. Andrew's graduate studies took place at Clare College, Cambridge (MA in Music) and Guildhall School of Music & Drama (PGDip).

Prizes and Awards

• Countess of Munster Trust Award
• Tunbridge Wells Young Concert Artists' (winner of the wind prize, 1985)

Teachers: Angela Fussell, Thea King, David Campbell, Antony Pay & Jack McCaw

Andrew joined Morgensterns in July 1987

Andrew's web profile was last updated 4th Sep 2010