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Michael Andrews SoBe
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Short BIO: A native of the Midwest, Michael Andrews attended the University of Wisconsin and University of Illinois, where he studied with Gabriel Magyar of the Hungarian String Quartet. Following graduation he moved to Boston to study with George Neikrug. for five years Mr. Andrews played with the Orquesta Filarmónica de Caracas, Venezuela, taught at the orchestra’s, conservatory and toured Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Returning to the US he taught and performed at the Wausau Conservatory of Music, Wausau, Wisconsin. In Florida he has played in the Naples Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Philharmonic, Las Olas Institute Orchestra and the Symphony of the Americas. Recent travels have included Paris, Lourdes, Budapest and London. In 1999 Mr. Andrews founded the South Beach Chamber Ensemble. The ensemble has been supported by the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the State of Florida, Citizens Interested in the Arts, the Audrey Love Charitable Foundation and the Community Foundation of North Central Wisconsin. In August 2005 he played at the Villa-Lobos Museum in Rio de Janeiro, part of the South Beach Chamber Ensemble’s Music in Motion: Miami to Rio. In June 2006 he created a successful chamber music festival, South Beach Up North, in his hometown, Wausau, Wisconsin. |
