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Andrew Powell – musical composer, arranger and performer – was born 18 April 1949 in London, England of Welsh parents.

Early life[link]

He began taking piano lessons at the age of four and later attended Kings College School, Wimbledon by which time he was also learning the viola, violin and orchestral percussion. He was writing music by the age of eleven and went on to study composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti at Darmstadt in Germany before taking a masters degree in music Kings College, Cambridge. While at Cambridge he joined an electronic music group, Intermodulation, with Roger Smalley, Tim Souster and Robin Thompson, and joined the local progressive rock group Henry Cow, formed by Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson, in which he alternated between bass and drums.

Musical career[link]

After leaving Cambridge he performed as a soloist at the Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, London. He later worked with several orchestras, including at Covent Garden and with the London Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Welsh Orchestra and the BBC Symphony Orchestra where he worked with Pierre Boulez. He had also begun working as a session player, as well as founding the group "Come to the Edge" with Robin Thompson and Morris Pert, which performed regularly with the Japanese percussion virtuoso Stomu Yamashta.

Andrew's career as an arranger began at this time and his first commission was the debut album for Cockney Rebel; he also arranged their next two albums and worked with other artists including Leo Sayer, John Miles ("Music"), Donovan, Cliff Richard ("Miss You Nights"), Al Stewart ("Modern Times", "The Year of the Cat", "Time Passages", "Russians and Americans" and "Between the Wars"), David Gilmour, Chris Rea, Mick Fleetwood, The Hollies, and others.

He worked on the first album by The Alan Parsons Project ("Tales of Mystery and Imagination") as arranger, conductor and composer, and subsequently on all but one of their albums and with Alan Parsons when the group broke up. He has performed live with both Parsons and Stewart. He also made an orchestral album from The Alan Parsons Project's songs : "The Philharmonia Orchestra Plays The Best of The Alan Parsons Project" in 1983. He arranged orchestration for Ambrosia's Parsons produced "Somewhere I've Never Traveled", his work being featured on "Cowboy Star" and Dance With Me George" in particular.

Powell produced Kate Bush's debut album The Kick Inside (1978), which included the song "Wuthering Heights"; he also produced, with help from Bush, her second album Lionheart (1978).

Other artists he has worked with include Chris De Burgh, Nick Heyward, Michael Crawford, Elaine Paige, The Hollies and Kansas.

He wrote the soundtrack for the movies Ladyhawke and Rocket Gibraltar and has been involved in many other movie and TV projects as well.

He has conducted orchestras and ensembles all over the world, including the Philharmonia Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sydney Symphony, the Wellington Symphony Orchestra, the Bayerische Rundfunk Orchestra and the München Kammeroper – as well as the Black Dyke Mills Band and Grimethorpe Colliery Band.

Recent work[link]

More recent work has included arranging and conducting Wouter Van Belle's work 'Wow & Flutter' as well as writing for brass bands including the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, Parc & Dare Band and Burry Port Town Band; and the perhaps less accessible album "Stockhausen: Michael's Farewell, etc" with John Wallace.

Of the latest compositions, 'Living Stones', received its world premier at St Davids Cathedral, Wales on 27 October 2007 and 'Glasiad y dydd dros Ben Dinas' at the City of London Festival on 19 March 2008.

He is artistic director of BluestoneArts, a social enterprise company that promotes music, words and visual arts in north Pembrokeshire, Wales.

External links[link]

• [1] Official website
• [2] Interview: Ladyhawke
• [3] Van Belle: Wow & Flutter
• [4] City of London Festival: Glasiad y dydd dros Ben Dinas
• [5] Composers of Wales – Andrew Powell

Senator Larissa Waters
Senator for Queensland
Incumbent
Assumed office 1 July 2011
Personal details
Born	(1977-02-08) 8 February 1977 (age 35) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Nationality	Australian
Political party	Australian Greens
Residence	Bardon, Queensland
Alma mater	Griffith University (B.Sc., LL.B.)
Profession	Environmental lawyer
Website	http://greens.org.au/larissawaters

Larissa Joy Waters (born 8 February 1977) is an Australian Greens Senator for Queensland. She is the Lead Spokesperson for the Queensland Greens and she is currently responsible for the federal party portfolios of: Environment, Biodiversity and Natural Heritage; Population; Great Barrier Reef and Coral Sea; Cape York; World Heritage; Tourism; Mining.

Biography[link]

Waters was born in Winnipeg, Canada, grew up in Brisbane and lives in Bardon with her partner and their young daughter.^[1] She has a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws from Griffith University and a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from the New South Wales College of Law. From 2000-2001 she was a Legal Researcher at the Queensland Land and Resources Tribunal (predecessor of the Land Court of Queensland), from 2001-2002 a Lawyer at Freehills, and from 2002-2011 was a Lawyer with the Environmental Defenders Office.^[2]

Political career[link]

Waters was the Convener of the Queensland Greens North Brisbane Branch from 2006-2007.

She ran first on the Queensland Green Senate ticket at the 2007 federal election and received 7.3 per cent of the vote, an increase of 1.9 percentage points, failing to gain election.

In the 2009 Queensland State election, Waters ran unsuccessfully for the seat of Mount Coot-tha held by Labor Treasurer Andrew Fraser obtaining 23.1% of the primary vote.^[3]

She was first on the Queensland Green Senate ticket again at the 2010 federal election. She was elected with 12.8 per cent of the vote, an increase of 5.4 percentage points.^[4]

Policy stances[link]

Protection of prime agricultural land from mining, setting up a conservation zone in the Coral Sea and ending the live export trade of livestock are high on her legislative agenda.^[5]

See also[link]

Queensland portal

• Women in the Australian Senate

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Larissa Waters: Candidate for Queensland". Australian Greens. 2010. http://greens.org.au/larissawaters. Retrieved 31 August 2010. 
• Larissa Waters (2010). "Larissa Waters". http://www.facebook.com/larissawaters. Retrieved 31 August 2010.