Andrew is currently an Instrumental Music Teacher with Education Queensland, Australia. His musical career began in 1976 when he joined the Royal Australian Navy (1976-1982 full-time musician) as a trombonist, bass guitarist and euphonium player. Andrew left the navy to study music performance (trombone/bass guitar) full-time at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education now know as University of Southern Queensland. He was involved with many bands during this time such as the Darling Downs Big Band, Concert Orchestra, Sinfonia, Brass Bands, Jazz Bands and commercial rock bands. In 1988, he gained his teaching qualifications from the St. George Institute of Advanced Education in Sydney. He completed a Certificate IV – Music with Queensland Music College in 2015 and has taught Instrumental Music (multi) and classroom music years 5-12 up to this day. He is an active performer with Cool Nights Big Band and Band Director of the Harlaxton RSL Brass Band. He is involved in playing bass guitar for community and professional musicals each year.
In 2001, Andrew started his own music publishing business “Willscore Publishing” that distributes Educational Sheet Music within Australia and internationally. Andrew is a full member of APRA and AMCOS Australia and has in recent times, established a Willscore Publishing Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100086440592370 . He is a composer/arranger with SheetMusicPlus https://www.sheetmusicplus.com/publishers/andrew-will-sheet-music/3006703?Ns=salesRank%7C1&isPLP=1 where all of Andrew’s arrangements are available. Most of the print music on Score Exchange are original composed by Andrew. Andrew is an Associate Composer with the Australian Music Centre Library in Sydney, Australia https://www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/artist/will-andrew. The National Library of Australia and Queensland State Library have catalogued many of Andrew’s works for viewing. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog?lookfor=author%3A%22Will%2C+Andrew%2C+1960-%22&iknowwhatimean=1&search_field=all_fields&q=andrew+will .