American composer Andrew Rindfleisch has enjoyed a career in music that has also included professional activity as a conductor, pianist, vocalist, improviser, record producer, and radio show host. He is the recipient of the Rome Prize, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, a Koussevitzky Foundation Commission from the Library of Congress, and a Charles Ives Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Additionally, his music has been honored with over forty other prizes and awards throughout his career. He has participated in dozens of renowned music festivals and has received residency fellowships from the Bogliasco Foundation (Italy), the Czech-American Institute in Prague, the June in Buffalo Contemporary Music Festival, the MacDowell Colony, and the Pierre Boulez Conductor’s Workshop at Carnegie Hall.
As a composer, Dr. Rindfleisch has produced a catalog of over 80 compositions for the concert hall, including solo, chamber, vocal, orchestral, brass, wind, and choral music. Recent projects include collaborations with the ENCORE Chamber Music Institute, Alarm Will Sound, the JACK Quartet, the Meridian Arts Ensemble, Zeitgeist New Music Ensemble, NO EXIT New Music Ensemble, and the San Antonio Chamber Choir. His work has been commercially recorded on the Navona, Albany, Innova, Gothic and Clarion labels and is available on CD and streaming services. He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin at Madison (Bachelor of Music), the New England Conservatory of Music (Master of Music), and Harvard University (PhD).
As a conductor and producer, Dr. Rindfleisch’s commitment to contemporary music culture has brought into performance and recording over 500 works by living composers over the past 30 years. He currently heads the Music Composition Program at Cleveland State University.
