 Whilst at college Andrew performed Gil Evans' Porgy and Bess with Randy Brecker at the Barbican Hall, London; Gil Evans' Sketches of Spain with Dave Liebman, and alongside Billy Cobham.In 2000, the Andrew Bain Quartet performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland and, at the same time, recorded his debut album – Absent Folk (2000) – with Pete Wareham, Simon Colam, and Rob Mullarkey.Still active as a classical percussionist, Andrew got to the semi-finals of the BBC Young Musician of the Year 1998, the percussion finals of the Shell/London Symphony Orchestra Percussion Scholarship 2000 and the final of the Yamaha Foundation of Europe Percussion Scholarship 2000.