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			Andrew Raffo Dewar (b. 1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser, woodwind instrumentalist, ethnomusicologist and Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Arts in the New College and music department at the University of Alabama, USA. Since 1995, he has been active in the music communities of Minneapolis, New Orleans, the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, performing his work in North America, Southeast Asia and Europe. He has had the good fortune to study and make music with saxophonist/composers Steve Lacy, Anthony Braxton and Phillip Greenlief, composer Alvin Lucier, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, and multi-instrumentalist improviser Milo Fine. He has also studied and performed Indonesian traditional and experimental music off and on for more than a decade. As a composer, Dewar's pieces have been performed by the Flux Quartet (NYC), Sekar Anu (Indonesia), the Koto Phase ensemble (USA/Japan) and the XYZ composer collective (NYC). He has received grants from Arts International, Meet The Composer and the Getty Foundation to support his work. As a performer and improviser he has worked with (among others): Tetuzi Akiyama, Matt Bauder, Jorge Boehringer, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jonathan Chen, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Bryan Eubanks, Guillermo Gregorio, Andrew Lafkas, Jacob Lindsay, Jessica Pavone, Chad Popple, Gino Robair, Phillip Schulze, Davu Seru, John Shiurba, Aaron Siegel, Pande Made Sukerta, A.L. Suwardi, Matthew Welch, Jack Wright, the Anthony Braxton 12tet and Low and Away. Copyright © 2004-8 Andrew Raffo Dewar. All rights reserved. Page last updated September 6, 2008.