Andrew Paterson is a singer, double-bass player, music arranger and choral director from Manchester, UK. With over 30 years experience of singing and playing at a high level, Andrew plays double bass (jazz and classical) and has a wide enough vocal range to sing most tenor or bass parts. He also loves arranging his favourite music, having particular interests in choral music, brass ensembles, jazz, and making performable English translations of obscure folk fusion songs.

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Andrew Paterson is a singer, double-bass player, music arranger and choral director from Manchester, UK. With over 30 years experience of singing and playing at a high level, Andrew plays double bass (jazz and classical) and has a wide enough vocal range to sing most tenor or bass parts. He also loves arranging his favourite music, having particular interests in choral music, brass ensembles, jazz, and making performable English translations of obscure folk fusion songs.

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Andrew Paterson is a singer, double-bass player, music arranger and choral director from Manchester, UK.

With over 30 years experience of singing and playing at a high level, Andrew plays double bass (jazz and classical) and has a wide enough vocal range to sing most tenor or bass parts.

He also loves arranging his favourite music, having particular interests in choral music, brass ensembles, jazz, and making performable English translations of obscure folk fusion songs.

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    paper Andrew Paterson - lyric translation examples
    As part of writing choral sheet music arrangements, I write my own performable English translations. This document contains 3 examples: "Bara Bada Bastu" - as perfomed by KAJ at Melodifestivalen and Eurovision Song Contest 2025. (See my published arrangements at https://www.twine.net/signin and https://www.twine.net/signin ) "Convidando Está La Noche" - a Christmas carol in Spanish by Mexican composer Juan García de Zéspedes (see my published arrangement at https://www.twine.net/signin ) "Rano-Ranenko" - as performed by Ukrainian band Go_A. I'm currently seeking permission from the copyright holders to publish my arrangement for choir so there is no published link for this yet. With my experience as a choral singer and conductor, I'm able to write translations that (1) match the rhythmic feel of the music very closely; (2) are natural-sounding, with typical English word stress; and (3) that convey all the important meaning from the original text. I've also made some artistic decisions to keep certain words from the original text where appropriate. translator arranger choral lyrics