Andrew Powell - musical composer, arranger and performer - was born 18 April 1949 in London, England of Welsh parents. He began taking piano lessons at the age of four and later attended Kings College School, Wimbledon by which time he was also learning the viola, violin and orchestral percussion. He was writing music by the age of eleven and went on to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti at Darmstadt in Germany before taking a masters degree in music at Kings College, Cambridge.

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