- A multi-talented composer, musician, educator, and minister, Andrews is a native of Detroit, Michigan. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music from the University of Michigan. Continuing his studies at Yale University, he earned a Master of Divinity degree and a Ph.D. in Music Theory. While at Yale, he began a musical association with the prestigious Yale Repertory Theatre under Lloyd Richards (the only Black professor that has a department chair named for him) who had a long association with playright August Wilson. Andrews' association with Wilson began at Yale. He went on to serve as musical director for Wilson's plays and productions of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", "Joe Turner's Come and Gone", "The Piano Lesson", and "Seven Guitars". Additionally, he has served as a multi-instrumentalist for numerous Jazz musicians that include Anthony Braxton, James Newton, and Geri Allen. He bears the distinction of being named the first Quincy Jones Visiting Professor of African American Music at Harvard University in 1997. He has been the recipient of a Pew Trust/TCG Artist Residency Fellowship and a Mellon Fellowship. He served as Artistic Director of the Atlanta, GA-based National Black Arts Festival from 1996-1998. He is a Resident Artist at the Alliance Theatre of Atlanta and serves as Associate Professor of Music History and Jazz History at Emory University, a position he has held since 1987.- IMDb Mini Biography By: L. J. Allen-2
- He was awarded the 1990 Drama-Logue Award for Best Original Music for "The Piano Lesson" in a Center Theatre Group/Ahmanson and Yale Repertory Theatre production at the James A. Doolittle Theatre (University of California) in Los Angeles, California.
- He was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Musical Direction for "Seven Guitars" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
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