Hailing from Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Andy Mellor enjoys a lively and varied freelance career as a clarinettist, having played with leading orchestras and ensembles across the country, including the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Hourglass Quintet with Gwylim Simcock during their “Hourglass” tour of Europe. He is currently a young artist in association with the Worshipful Company of Musicians.
An experienced soloist and chamber musician, Andy has given recitals at many venues and festivals throughout the country, including St. John Smith’s Square, Buxton International Festival, St. James’s Piccadilly and the Glasgow Arts Club. In 2022 he performed Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto with the Symphonia Verbum Orchestra at King’s Hall, Stoke-on-Trent, and in 2018 performed as a soloist alongside the RNCM Symphony Orchestra at their high-profile tribute concert to Sir John Manduell, which was later recorded and featured on Prima Facie Records.
Andy is a graduate with Distinction from the Orchestral Artistry Masters programme at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Studying with Joy Farrall, Andrew Marriner and Michael Collins, Andy was the winner of the 2021 Clarinet Prize and a finalist at the Worshipful Company of Needlemakers Prize for Woodwind. Prior to this, he graduated with First Class Honours from the Royal Northern College of Music, where he studied with Lynsey Marsh, Nicholas Cox, Matthew Hunt and Christopher Swann. His studies were generously supported with scholarships from the Worshipful Company of Musicians, Norman Gee Scholarship Foundation and Help Musicians UK.
Andy plays on Buffet Crampon Clarinets, which he was able to purchase with the generous support of the Wolfson Foundation.
