Violist, Composer, and Educator Andrew Gretzinger is based in the Greater Boston, Massachusetts area. His playing focuses on the symbiotic nature of music making while being an active chamber musician. As a commissioned composer, he enjoys collaboration and exploration of sonic variety, melodicism, and timbre. Andrew has played with ensembles such as the Cape Ann Symphony, South Carolina Philharmonic, and other ensembles in West Michigan, South Carolina, and the Greater Boston area.

As a composer, he enjoys collaborating with performers and creating a unique composition for each partnership. In 2021, Andrew was awarded the David S. Boe Award for Exceptional Creative Work for the composition Suite for Woodwind Quintet (2020). Recent works include Through the Sea and Waves (2023), based on rediscovered sea songs in the New England area, and Reflection and Meditation (2024) for solo viola. Currently, he is interested in creating political commentary works based on the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community, exploring atypical harmonies in a modal approach to rotational arrays, and using aleatoricism to suspend time with use of texture.

Gretzinger is currently on faculty for violin, viola, and theory at the Community Music Center of Boston and Student Coordinator & Assistant Operations Manager at the Boston String Academy.

Gretzinger holds a M.M. Viola Performance degree from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and a B.M. Composition degree and Viola Performance Certificate from the University of South Carolina. When not engaging with music, Andrew enjoys hiking, reading, baking, and a good movie.