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			Andrew Raffo Dewar (b. 1975 Rosario, Argentina) is a composer, improviser, woodwind instrumentalist and Ph.D. candidate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, 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. For the past ten years he has been involved with Javanese gamelan (including studies with Joko Sutrisno and Sumarsam) and both experimental and traditional music in West Sumatra with composer/performers I. Dewa Nyoman Supenida and Mohammed Halim. 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 and Meet The Composer to support this 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, Michel Doneda, Bryan Eubanks, Carol Genetti, Andrew Lafkas, Jacob Lindsay, Jessica Pavone, Gino Robair, Phillip Schulze, John Shiurba, Aaron Siegel, Pande Made Sukerta, A.L. Suwardi, Matthew Welch, Jack Wright, the Anthony Braxton 12tet and Low and Away. Copyright © 2004-7 Andrew Raffo Dewar. All rights reserved. Page last updated December 5, 2006.