Andrew Norman is a composer, educator, and passionate advocate for music who has become a prominent voice in American classical music. Blending a wide range of sounds and performance practices, his work casts an expansive sonic and conceptual net, engaging with the experiences, challenges, and reflections of our time. A two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, his music has been championed by renowned conductors including John Adams, Marin Alsop, Gustavo Dudamel, Simon Rattle, and David Robertson.
Norman’s music has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, including the Berlin, Los Angeles, and New York Philharmonics; the Philadelphia and Minnesota Orchestras; the London, BBC, Saint Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies; the Orpheus, Saint Paul, and Los Angeles Chamber Orchestras; the Tonhalle Orchester; the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; the Orchestre National de France; and the Ensemble Intercontemporain.
He has served as composer-in-residence with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Opera Philadelphia, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Utah Symphony, and was the Debs Composer’s Chair at Carnegie Hall for the 2020–2021 season.
Norman’s accolades include the Rome Prize (2006), the Berlin Prize (2009), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2016), Musical America's Composer of the Year (2017), and the Grawemeyer Award for Music Composition (2017). His orchestral work Sustain earned Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic a GRAMMY Award for their Deutsche Grammophon recording.
He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from USC Thornton School of Music and an Artist Diploma from Yale University. From 2013 to 2020, he was an assistant professor of composition at USC Thornton, before joining the Juilliard School composition faculty in 2020.
Deeply committed to education, Norman has led numerous residencies across the country and currently directs the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Composer Fellowship Program for high school composers.