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 Andrew McGregor Brought up in a home wallpapered by Radio 3, Andrew was installed at a piano from a tender age, picking out popular TV theme tunes with one finger. Over time his technique improved, and he added violin, voice and organ to the options. After spending school holidays trying to pick up a girlfriend on orchestra and chamber music courses, Andrew bluffed his way into the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain as a violinist, playing Shostakovich under Kondrashin, and Stravinsky under Chailly at the Proms, his first experience of live broadcasting on BBC Radio 3. Andrew read music at Surrey University, and sang alto in Guildford Cathedral Choir, which involved broadcasts, recordings, and drinking. He has vague memories of providing string backing for rock groups, and studying Stockhausen. Funnily enough Capital Radio paid for his postgraduate year as a violinist at the National Centre for Orchestral Studies. Time to earn a living, working for a small independent classical record label: anything from sleeving LPs and making the tea at recording sessions to writing sleevenotes and digital editing. The BBC trained Andrew as a sound engineer, after which he had his first experience talking on air, for the BBC World Service. After a couple of years at Channel 4 Television, Radio 3 asked Andrew to present their new breakfast show On Air, which he did for over six years, learning how to manage on half rations of sleep and double rations of caffeine. These days it's CD Review on Saturday mornings, where Andrew gets to listen to the latest CDs before anyone else, as well as meeting some of the most fascinating musicians in the business. What a great job. These days Andrew's a resting fiddle player, and more of an under-the-counter-tenor. He loves the live concert presentations that come his way, from the WOMAD Festival, the Awards for World Music, Proms and operas on BBC Radio 3, to the Last Night of the Proms and concerts in China for BBC World Service. Andrew talks about world music every week on Five Live, and was shocked to win a silver Sony Award as Music Broadcaster of the Year in 2006. |
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