Andrew Bishop is an active composer, saxophonist, and clarinetist in highly diversified musical idioms and has composed and performed with and for orchestra, band, chamber ensembles, jazz, theater, film, dance, multi-media, electronic mediums, eclectic improvisation ensembles, and various popular and folk idioms.

He has received over 20 commissions from professional organizations and universities, numerous residencies, and has as received recognition and awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Andrew W. Melon Foundation, Meet the Composer, and a nomination from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His orchestral composition Crooning was recorded by the Albany Symphony Orchestra on Two American Piano Concertos (Albany Records) with pianists Ursula Oppens and Ian Hobson.

He has also completed writing projects for drummer Matt Wilson and is currently working on a chamber music project for saxophonist Dave Liebman. The Ann Arbor Observer writes that Bishop find[s] inspiration everywhere from Armstrong and Coltrane to Hendrix, Boulez, or Balkan folk Music. The New York Times has applauded Bishop's work as inventively arranged and Kyle Gann of the Village Voice writes that it finds a musical space where angels-fear-to-tread. As a performer Bishop has worked with artists as Reid Anderson, Greg Bendian, Karl Berger, Sandip Burman, Kenny Burrell, Eugene Chadbourne, Ray Charles, Gerald Cleaver, Jerry Hahn, John Lindberg, The Either Orchestra, Matt Maneri, The Manhattan Transfer, Ben Monder, Hank Roberts, Jacob Sacks, Dave Sayers, Craig Tayborn, Clark Terry, Matt Wilson, and John Zorn. His current associations included Gerald Cleaver's Veil of Names, The Ellen Rowe Quartet, the Tad Weed Freedom Ensemble, and Bottomed Out with guitarist and composer Ryan Mackstaller.

He has recorded over 30 compact discs and recordings as a sideman and his performance with the Ellen Rowe Quartet at the 2003 San Jose Jazz Festival was broadcasted on National Public Radio's Jazzset with Dee Dee Bridgewater. He earned five degrees in music including a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from the University of Michigan.