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A noted interpreter of contemporary music, Andy has premiered and commissioned dozens of works to date and has performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on their MusicNOW series, at the New Music Gathering, and with Ensemble Dal Niente, the Chicago Composer’s Orchestra, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition’s Grossman Ensemble (with whom he is featured on the 2020 release FOUNTAIN OF TIME). In 2018, he was clarinetist for the workshop performance of Augusta Read Thomas’s opera “Sweet Potato Kicks the Sun,” sponsored by the Santa Fe Opera. Andy also performs with the Zafa Collective and earspace, and was a founding member of the trio F-PLUS. Andy is Clarinetist and Co-Artistic Director with the mixed sextet Latitude 49. Latitude 49 has held numerous residencies, including recently at Princeton University and Baylor University, and has been the recipient of grants from the Barlow Endowment, the Fromm Foundation, Chamber Music America, and the Aaron Copland Fund. Andy can be heard on their albums The Bagatelles Project and Wax and Wire (New Amsterdam), of which TEMPO said, “The group handles lots of different styles with precision, and performances throughout the CD are sharp, clear and full of energy. The album offers some great works, and each of them is its own musical sculpture – fully formed, accomplished, well performed.” His solo debut, “halfway home” will release in the Fall of 2021 on Potenza Music.
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An avid writer, Andy’s first book, “Elements of Contemporary Clarinet Technique” was co-authored with Roger Zare and released in August of 2021 on Conway Publications. In addition to contributing a chapter for the formidable “Clarinet Studio Companion” (Conway, 2021), his work has also been published in The Clarinet Journal, The Piano Magazine, and The College Music Symposium.

Andy is currently Assistant Professor of Clarinet at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and each summer joins the Artist-Faculty of the Tennessee Valley Music Festival. Previously, he held teaching positions at Northwestern University and Lake Forest College, and he has been the North Carolina State Chair for the International Clarinet Association since 2019. Andy earned his DMA in Clarinet Performance with a Cognate Certification in Music Theory from Northwestern University, where he also earned his Master of Music degree. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from Columbus State University’s Schwob School of Music. His primary teachers have included Steve Cohen, J. Lawrie Bloom, and Lisa Oberlander. Andy is an Artist-Clinician for Buffet Crampon and an Ambassador for Rovner Products. He performs exclusively on Buffet clarinets and Rovner ligatures.
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When he’s not practicing, Andy enjoys running, reading, playing guitar, eating local food, watching baseball, and collecting obscure instruments. Let’s connect on Twitter and Instagram: @TheAndyHudson