Andrew Howes
Orchestration
Andrew Howes is a passionate orchestrator, an activity he considers to be one of the main drivers of his compositional process, and loves to orchestrate interesting or unusual works for choirs, orchestras and chamber ensembles. His ability to absorb and understand instrumentation and musical form is highly practiced, however it is his ability to tailor musical material to specific performer capacity and connect on an intellectual and emotional level with audiences that makes his arrangements successful.
Andrew's Solo and Chamber Ensemble arrangements have been performed by musicians including Andrew Haveron, Simon Tedeschi, Kristian Winther, Umberto Clerici, Stefanie Farrands, Konstantin Shamray, Vatche Jambazian and Emily Granger. In 2025, the Australian Chamber Orchestra Quartet premiered his collection Five Works of Erik Satie. The Klassische Philharmonie Bonn, under conductor Vladimir Fanshil, premiered his transformation of Poulenc's Les Chemins de L'amour as the encore on their February-March tour Auf nach Paris!.
He has made several orchestrations for the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, including two songs on their Aria Award winning Josh Pyke with the Sydney Symphony, and Steven Oliver's Faboriginal, which was performed at the 2023 World Pride Blak and Deadly Gala. In 2023, he was the tour orchestrator for Sydney Youth Orchestra's Big West tour, working with country singers Nancy Bates, Leroy Johnson and Aimee Volkovsky. You may most often hear his orchestrations in the television series Escape to the Country, and he has recently orchestrated Elena Kats-Chernin's score for Adam Elliot's Academy Award & Golden Globe nominated second feature film, Memoir of a Snail.
If you would like to work with Andrew on an orchestration, arrangement or transcription project, please reach out via the contact page.