" ...his music has everything we have come to expect from the greatest of contemporary composers—confidence, originality, expressivity, and, above all, palpable meaning. ...highly original and compelling. " "...[a] notable world premiere here, Andrew Waggoner's La Folie (Fantasme on a Ground), a more maximal organism. This is music at once viscerally charged and intellectually curious - curious as in strangely compelling and actively, restlessly searching. The piece morphs and folds over itself, unveiling a series of ideas, interests and aspects of what the composer calls the "continuous variation". It's a wild ride, in other words, but with self-assurance and dignity beneath the sometimes crazed and Messiaenic surfaces." "Andrew Waggoner is a gifted practitioner of a complex but dramatic and vividly colored style" "Andrew Waggoner joined his colleagues at the end in his quintet Memory, Word, Mystery, Presence, composed in 2005 in Strasbourg. A play of contrasts between harmonies both supercharged and still, between homophony and dense polyphony, all through an atonality that manages to be unaggressive, never sinking to demagoguery. The writing, beautifully clear, captures the ear throughout." "Waggoner's timbral combinations were particularly inventive: a roiling passage driven by pounding roto-toms was followed with a lyrical stretch for alto saxophone paired with bowed cymbal and wobbly flexatone; not long after that, icy lines on piano and guitar backed a growling tenor saxophone and groaning cuica." "Andrew Waggoner's Collines parmi étoiles... lives up to its Messiaenesque title, conjuring vast vistas of sound." "A promising premiere by Andrew Waggoner should convince any listener that this music will prosper into the 21st century." "...eloquent...seemed to end far too soon, leaving the listener wanting more."