Andrew Waggoner studied at the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts, the Eastman School of Music and Cornell University. Called "the gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style" by The New Yorker, his music has been commissioned and performed by the Academy of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Saint Louis, Denver, Syracuse, and Winnipeg Symphonies. The three concertos recorded on this program were composed between 2010 and 2013. "... his music has everything we have come to expect from the greatest of contemporary composers-confidence, originality, expressivity, and, above all, palpable meaning.... highly original and compelling." (Fanfare Magazine)