Andrew Power is a Copenhagen-based cellist, curator and composer whose work spans contemporary music, experimental performance and interdisciplinary collaboration. Alongside an international performing career, he has developed a distinctive practice in commissioning, programming and creating new music, working closely with composers and artists across disciplines. In 2025, he received the Pelle Prize at KLANG Festival, with Wise Music Classical describing him as “a special force in Danish contemporary music over the past decade”.
A member of Athelas Sinfonietta since 2022 and its Artistic Council, Andrew contributes to the ensemble's programming. His curatorial work across several projects has introduced Danish audiences to music by Anna Meredith, Bernhard Gander, Ben Nobuto, Steve Martland, Alex Paxton, Stefan Prins, Lisa Streich and Alexander Schubert. He was musical director and solo cellist for Josefine Opsahl's HJEM (2023), staged in a former prison and named Opera of the Year by CPH Culture. With Copenhagen Contemporary String Quartet, of which he is also a member, he helped shape UNSTRUNG, the closing concert of KLANG Festival 2026, described by Seismograf as “the festival's strongest concert”.
Andrew's recent solo work includes music by Blasio Kavuma, Ilgin Ülkü and Bushra El-Turk, alongside Broken Strings, written for him by Greenlandic composer Arnannguaq Gerstrøm. In 2026, he also performed Michael Hersch's Last Autumn, a two-hour cycle of 41 movements for horn and cello, with Stephen Craigen as part of Ear Transplant. His own compositions include Human Proportions (2016), created for dance at J. F. Willumsens Museum, and Reel Hooks (2026), a performance co-devised with aerial artists for Athelas.
Together with Icelandic accordionist Jónas Ásgeir Ásgeirsson, Andrew co-founded EKKI MINNA, a duo that performs, composes, curates and collaborates, developing projects across chamber music, multimedia and music theatre. Their album NO MORE NO LESS (2024) was nominated at the 2025 Icelandic Music Awards, while Björk opened her Milan Design Week DJ set with the duo's collaboration with Áslaug Magnúsdóttir, a lot of ANGELS to consider. Their music-theatre work We're Pleased To Meet Us, co-composed with Matthew Grouse, premiered at MINU Festival in 2025. The duo is developing a second album and preparing an international tour for 2027, following concerts with NJYD in Aarhus and Copenhagen in November 2026.
Andrew has toured with Anna Meredith at festivals including Glastonbury, Pohoda, Le Guess Who?, Lowlands and Iceland Airwaves. He has also performed with Ensemble Modern and Ensemble intercontemporain, and at IRCAM's ManiFeste with the Ulysses Ensemble, alongside recording and performance collaborations with Sasha Siem and Kygo. His work in education includes mentoring young musicians and composers through Danish New Music Academy and the Royal Danish Academy of Music.
His solo project, Cellography, brings together commissions, performance and artistic research exploring the cello as a means of cultural exchange, particularly through Greenlandic and SWANA perspectives. Andrew studied at the Yehudi Menuhin School, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and the Royal Danish Academy of Music, with further studies at the Kunstuniversität Graz. He plays a cello made by Tony Padday.
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