Andrew Quah is an accomplished educator, performer and composer, creating new Australian music that honours the old and redefines the new.

 

Andrew has seen success in a variety of fields. His musical training began at the age of five, studying piano and later violin and voice. He has performed as both a chorister and a soloist, and took an early interest in performance, featuring, among other roles, as one of the faces in the opening sequence of the popular children’s show Mr. Squiggle.

 

In 2003, Andrew was a founding member of the Sydney Eclectic Composers' Society, serving as Publicity Officer, and later as Vice-President. With SECS, he worked to realise a number of significant initiatives, including an active concert series showcasing new Australian works, a net-label promoting Australian music to the world, and a HSC education program.

 

In 2005 and 2006, Andrew was selected to represent the Sydney Conservatorium of Music as its nominee for President of the University of Sydney Students' Representative Council, and sat on that Council as the Conservatorium's first ever elected representative. In 2007, Andrew was appointed NSW Campaign Director for the Family First Party - a major accomplishment for the then-21 year old.

 

Andrew currently sits on the board of the Music Talks Peace Association and is a member of the AART:BOXX committee of Accessible Arts, promoting participation in the Arts by the disabled. Andrew has also lectured for the Royal Horticultural and Royal Agricultural Societies of NSW on the topic of Bonsai, and published several critically acclaimed articles on the subject. He currently tutors in Piano, Composition and Music Theory.