“A natural born violist…”
- Nobuko Imai, concert soloist
Andrew Griffin is an award winning violist, composer, and orchestrator. He has performed in such diverse settings as Saturday Night Live, Radio City Music Hall, and in the viola section of the New York Philharmonic, the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Since 2019, Andrew has held chairs for multiple Broadway shows. He was also a semifinalist at the 2012 Washington International Competition for Strings.
As an active copyist and editor, his credits include: Kidding (Showtime, feat. Jim Carrey); For Colored Girls (Broadway, Booth Theater - where he was the first black supervising copyist in Broadway history); Ride the Cyclone (Off-Broadway); Planet Earth 2 (BBC); Lempicka (Williamstown Theater); Witness Uganda/Invisible Thread (Off-Broadway) and many more.
His original compositions, arrangements, and orchestrations have also been commissioned by notable ensembles such as the Seattle Symphony Orchestra Chamber Series (Jan 2023), Simply Three, Sphinx Virtuosi, the Queens College Orchestra, and Traverse City Dance Company.
Andrew received his bachelor’s degree with honors as a double major from Carnegie Mellon University under Toby Appel (viola BFA) and Nancy Galbraith (composition BFA), and a master’s degree (viola MFA) from Rice University under Ivo-jan van der Werff.