Originally from Virginia, Dr. Andrew Richardson serves as Assistant Professor of Percussion at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, TN. His students have gone on to successful careers as percussion specialists, band and orchestra directors, professional performers, and university professors. Andrew is published by Tapspace Publications, Marimba Publicatons, Inc., Boxfish Music, and in Percussive Notes, the journal of the Percussive Arts Society, and previously served as editor of the OU Percussion Press.

Andrew is an active clinician and has worked with universities and high schools throughout the central United States. He has performed and given presentations at the Percussive Arts Society International Convention, the National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy, Oklahoma Music Educators Association and Kansas Music Educators Association conferences, and Oklahoma PAS Days of Percussion Festivals. Andrew's writing credits include marching band percussion arrangements for the University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma Baptist University, and several high schools, as well as compositions and arrangements for steel band, percussion ensemble, and solo/chamber percussion. In an effort to serve his community, Andrew regularly performs at schools, retirement communities, and street corners in his community.

Andrew earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Oklahoma as well as Master of Music and Bachelor of Music degrees from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. Andrew is a past-president of the Oklahoma Chapter of the Percussive Arts Society and a member of the Vic Firth Education Team and the Black Swamp Percussion Educator Network.