| Andrew King - French Horn |
Andrew King is the Director of Orchestras at Carmel High School where he
conducts the CHS Symphony, Philharmonic, Concert Orchestra, and the CHS
Camerata Chamber Orchestra. The Carmel High School orchestra program has
been recognized as one of the premiere school music programs in the country
and was featured in the cover story of the January 2001 issue of School Band
and Orchestra Magazine. The CHS Symphony Orchestra has won the Indiana
State School Music Association championship the last seven years in a row,
and this winter the group will be performing Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at
Carnegie Hall.
Additionally, Andy serves as music director of the Indianapolis Youth Symphony. Andy earned his master’s degree in orchestral conducting from Butler University where he studied with Stanley DeRusha and served as the assistant conductor of the Butler Symphony Orchestra. Mr. King earned his bachelor’s degree in music education from Illinois Wesleyan University. Other conducting teachers have included Steven Eggleston, Daniel Hege, Rossen Milanov, and Harold Farberman. Mr. King studied horn with Gail Lewis, Laura Fairfield, Janet Miller, and Phillip Farkas. An advocate of contemporary art music, Andy has commissioned and premiered works by Peter Gilbert and Joseph Spaniola. Andy's creative side led him to be a co-creator of The Franklin Park Brass Game - a strategy board game soon to be released in stores near you. Andy is a gifted sculptor of little clay cats, noses, and missles. When not procrastinating, Andy can be found writing angry letters to former professors, watching the newly syndicated reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond, or just procrastinating some more.
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