Andrew Norman, winner of the 2006 Rome Prize, is a graduate of the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music. Andrew studied composition with Donald Crockett and Stephen Hartke and piano with Stewart Gordon, and he was twice named the Thornton School's most outstanding graduate. Andrew has been commissioned by the Minnesota Orchestra, the Oakland East Bay Symphony, the New York Youth Symphony, the Modesto Symphony, the California State University Stanislaus Symphony, the William Kapell Piano Foundation, the Hoff-Barthelson School, SCI, and the Cascade Head Music Festival. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including four Morton Gould Young Composer Awards, the Leo Kaplan Prize, and the Nissim Prize from ASCAP, the Jacob Druckman Prize from the Aspen Music Festival, and a BMI Student Composer Award. He has also garned top honors in the National Federation of Music Clubs Composition Competition, the Music Teachers National Association Composition Competition, the New England Philharmonic Call for Scores, and the USC Undergraduate Symposium for Scholarly and Creative Work. Andrew has served as a composition fellow at the Aspen Music Festival and a two-time fellow at the Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East. He has held residencies at the National Youth Orchestra Festival and the Copland House. Andrew is an avid performer of contemporary music and a committed educator, most recently playing in the Los Angleles-based Ensemble Green and serving on the faculty of the Pasadena Conservatory of Music.