Andrew Poppy

Quick Facts

Full Name	Andrew Poppy
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	May 29, 1954(1954-05-29)
Age	70
Birthplace	Kent
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Kent
Horoscope	Gemini

Andrew Poppy Biography

Andrew Poppy is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on May 29, 1954 in Kent, Kent, United Kingdom. Andrew Poppy (born 29 May 1954, Kent) is an English composer, pianist, and record producer

Poppy’s first orchestral work 32 Frames was written in 1981 for the Goldsmiths College orchestra. It was recorded for the Beating of a Wings album in 1985 with the composer conducting. The music was later used for the Portuguese seminal 80’s film A Girl In Summer directed by Vítor Gonçalves with additional material. Poppy worked on other Portuguese film projects in the early 1990s.

His first solo album The Beating of Wings was released on Trevor Horn and Paul Morley’s ZTT records in 1985, and the follow-up Alphabed (A Mystery Dance) in

1987. His third album for ZTT (Under the Son) was scheduled for release in 1988, but he left the label that year and most of its material appeared only in 2005 as part of a 3-CD collection of Poppy’s ZTT works entitled Andrew Poppy on Zang Tuum Tumb. The collection comprised three tracks from Under the Son as well as the first two ZTT albums, some of whose tracks appeared in versions slightly different from their initial album appearances, as well as in 12″ remixes. The music has been critically connected to both American experimental/minimalism and British electronica of cabaret voltaire

During the 1990s Poppy developed a number of opera projects. These and other productions often involved a collaboration with theatre, video and performance maker Julia Bardsley.

A collaboration between Poppy and German singer Claudia Brücken (another ZTT artist in the 1980s who recorded with Propaganda and Act) resulted in the album Another Language in 2005. On this sparsely scored album of cover songs Poppy’s piano and guitar playing accompanied Brücken’s vocals. Having used Schubert Songs as a model for arrangements on the album led Poppy to a more song and vocal based approach to his own composition.

Andrew Poppy Net Worth

Andrew Poppy is one of the richest Composer from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Andrew Poppy 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

During the 1970s he developed a strong interest in contemporary American composers who he started to perform: John Cage, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley, Reich and a public performance of Glass’s Music in Fifth for solo amplified piano in 1978. Poppy also played in an ensemble with Christian Wolff and attended a summer school with Cage and Merce Cunningham. At Goldsmiths he started an ensemble with Jeremy Peyton Jones to play their own music. After graduating in 1979 he began working as an accompanist at the Laban Centre for Dance. In late 1979 Poppy was approached by Orlando Gough to start a new ensemble together. The Lost Jockey was formed and started performing Glass, Reich, Poppy and Gough scores. The first concert at the Air Gallery in Roseberry Avenue was attended by Michael Nyman. Lost Jockey and The Nyman Band performed together at the 2nd Almeida Music Festival in 1981.

Poppy studied piano formally but was self taught as a guitarist. Teenage musical life included playing bass guitar in an improvising rock band inspired by Cream. After leaving school at 16 start playing Bartók and Debussy on the piano and writing piano pieces. Hearing Stockhausen on the radio he made a music concrete piece with his father’s tape recorder and enrolled in a music course at Kingsway College in London. There he met composer/pianist and scratch orchestra member Dave Smith who introduced him to the experimental composition of Philip Glass, Steve Reich, John White, Howard Skempton, Bryan’s and Conlon Nancarrow. From 1974 to 1979 he studied music at Royal Holloway College and Goldsmiths College University of London

He contributed orchestral arrangements to Force The Hand of Chance, the first album by the group Psychic TV which was released on WEA Records in 1982 and contributed compositions to Dreams Less Sweet, the follow up. Poppy’s subsequent arrangements have appeared on records by groups such as Coil, Erasure, The The, The House of Love, Strawberry Switchblade and Nitzer Ebb.

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Andrew Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Andrew Poppy celebrates birthday on May 29 of every year.