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Andrew Burn.After reading music at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Burn has pursued a career in arts administration working for English National Opera, the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society, and since 1993 the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, where he holds a senior management position of Head of Education and Ensembles, which includes responsibility for the orchestra's contemporary music ensemble Kokoro.Also in 1993 he became Artistic Director of the Chester Summer Music Festival where he has programmed residencies with Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Nicholas Maw and James Macmillan.He was been a member of the Arts Council's music panel and chair of its Contemporary Music Network Committee.He is a trustee of the Bliss and Finzi Trusts.
His specialist field is British music of the last and present centuries.As a writer, broadcaster and lecturer he has had articles published in The Musical Times and Tempo, broadcast on BBC Radio 3, written liner notes for over 100 CDs for companies including EMI, Naxos, Hyperion, Chandos and Decca, and lectured at festivals like Three Choirs, at the South Bank, at universities, as well as in the USA.