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ANDREW CORCORAN is a professional musician specialising in musical
theatre. His involvement in the business stretches back to birth, as
his father Chris toured extensively with numerous shows throughout the
80s and 90s. Growing up as a "tour baby", Andrew inevitably caught the
theatre bug and appeared in Evita as a 7-year-old Argentinian child at
the Opera House, Manchester in 1990.
He was taught classical piano from the age of 5 and distinctively
passed grade 8 before leaving secondary school to read Music with
Theatre Studies at the University of Huddersfield, where he achieved a
first class honours degree and received the music department's
Crabtree Prize for All-Round Achievement in June 2004.
This led straight into working as a keyboard player on the UK tour of
Joseph and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, a career obtained partly
thanks to his involvement in dozens of amateur dramatic productions
around the Manchester region. Since then Andrew's work has included
musical direction for productions at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe,
keyboard programming and subsequently playing for the West End run of
Whistle Down the Wind, arrangements of musical numbers for a major
annual showcase event for Manchester's amateur dramatic societies and
composition of a medley of songs by Andrew Lloyd Webber for a
forthcoming solo album from up-and-coming vocalist Rebecca Wicking, as
well as continuing to extensively tour the UK playing eight shows a
week!
Andrew is currently working as Assistant Musical Director for the UK
tour of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
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