Andrew Stewart Allen has a strong voice in the new music of his generation. His music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has received international recognition for his solo, chamber, orchestral and electronic music. He completed a Masters degree in Composition at the Eastman School of Music, which included research projects focused on developing software for computer-assisted music and analyzing Japanese traditional musics. He will begin PhD studies at the University of California: San Diego in the fall of 2009.

Andrew Stewart Allen has a strong voice in the new music of his generation. His music has been performed throughout the United States and Europe. He has written for many assortments and sizes of ensembles, including orchestras and wind ensembles, vocal music, music for home-built instruments, solo and chamber classical instruments and music for electronic sounds. Much of his work deals with organic harmony, structure and form and how it is interpreted from nature, science and historical perspectives.

Allen is a vigorous emerging composer who has received both local and international recognition. He was recently awarded the Howard Hanson Large Ensemble Prize for Kraken Engorges and 1st place in the Austin Peay State University's Twenty-Second Annual Young Composer's Competition for Breakbeat Mechanima. His Reflections of a Lowcountry Marshland for carillon was recently added to the UC Berkeley School of Music Library Archive. In mid 2008, he was awarded the Anthony & Carolyn Donato Prize as well as an honorable mention in the Frederic Mompou International Composition Award, both for his Two Movements for Solo Piano. Allen was selected as a recipient of the 2006-07 Magellan Scholarship for research in interactive computer music and cellular automata, which resulted in multiple concerts and live installations of new computer music in the spring of 2007.

Allen holds a formal degree from the University of South Carolina, where he studied under John Fitz Rogers in acoustic composition and Reginald Bain in computer music. He attened the Eastman School of Music where he also worked as a teaching assistant and webmaster for the Eastman Computer Music Center as well as a boardmember and webmaster of Eastman's student-run new music ensemble, Ossia. While at Eastman, Allen has studied under Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Robert Morris. He recently completed his Masters thesis, which deals with the dynamic between contemporary and traditional Japanese Gagaku (court music).