The British conductor, pianist and composer Andrew Wise lives in Gent, Belgium. He studied musicology in Cambridge and conducting at the Royal Academy of Music with Maurice Miles and John Carewe, with Lucas Vis in Amsterdam, and with Helmuth Rilling in Stuttgart. He started his career as repetiteur at the Netherlands Opera in Amsterdam and was soon invited to be chorus master at the Netherlands Travelling Opera based in Enschede.
From 1994 to 1997 Andrew was chorus master at the Flemish Opera in Antwerp, and from 1998 to 2003 chorus master of the Royal Danish Opera in Copenhagen. He appeared as guest conductor with the Danish Radio Choir, the Flemish Radio Choir, chamber choir Carmina (Copenhagen), Tivoli's Koncertkor, Onafhankelijk Toneel Opera (Rotterdam), Glyndebourne Touring Opera, Den Anden Opera (Copenhagen), het Valerius Ensemble, and Opera Zuid. He was chief conductor of the Hoofdstad Operette (Amsterdam) in 1999/2000. In 2002 Andrew Wise was invited by Kent Nagano to assist him with the preparation of Wagner's Die Walküre with the Göteborg Symfoniker, and subsequently also with the production of Das Rheingold in 2005. This has led to further engagements as an orchestral conductor, including Die Zauberflöte and Don Pasquale with the Alden Biesen Festival Orchestra (Belgium) in 2004, and regular invitations to conduct at the Swedish National Orchestra Academy in Göteborg. He is chief conductor of the Middelburg Chamber Choir.
As a pianist his principal interests are chamber music and lied accompaniment. He is a founding member of the Argandi Piano Trio. Duo partners in chamber music include cellist Floris Mijnders, violinist Galina Stamenova, singers Albert Bonnema, Huub Claessens, Eva Oltivanyi and Penelope Turner. He is vocal coach at the Antwerp Conservatory and teacher of oratorio in the department of singing.
He has been active as a composer since the year 2000, in the main writing vocal music.
He has written a number of choral works, a song cycle on poems by W.H. Auden, a one-