Andrew Digby was born in England in 1967. He began to play piano very early, and then at ten pursued a long-standing desire to play trombone; he began to compose around the age of fourteen. He studied from 1986 to 1990 at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (trombone with Chris Houlding, Peter Gane, and Andrew Berryman). Already as a student he was intensely interested in New Music and played with the English ensemble Ixion. After his studies he spent a year in London as a discographer at the MCPS/National Sound Archive. From 1991 to 1995 he studied composition with Mathias Spahlinger at the Musikhochschule Freiburg. Since 1995 he has performed with renowned ensembles for New Music in Germany and abroad: he has collaborated for years with SurPlus, ensemble recherche, Ensemble Aventure, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Modern, MusikFabrik, Apartment House, Ensemble aisthesis, Klangforum Wien, and Ensemble Resonanz. For his composition work he received a grant in 1997 from the Akademie der Künste Berlin and the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des SWR. He received a second prize in composition from the Stadt Stuttgart in 1997. His works have been performed at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in 1997 (by the ensemble recherche) and ex negativo in 1998 (by the Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Berlin). He has written commissioned works for the Schlagquartett Köln, Sebastian Berweck, ensemble recherche, and Ensemble Aventure. In 2003 he participated in Voyeur at the Forum Neues Musiktheater.