Pianist and composer Andrea Vicari was born in Miami (Florida) and grew up in Birmingham (England). Educated at Cardiff University she won a scholarship to study at The Guildhall School of Music in London.

Andrea was soon in demand as a 'side-man', working with bass guitar legend, Dill Katz in a band that included the then unknown guitarist Phil Robson. Soon after she formed her first important group with Julian Argüelles on saxophone & Stuart Hall, then of Django Bates' "Human Chain", on bass.

Other employers included GRP recording artist Phil Bent; Jazz Warrior David-Jean Baptiste with whom she recorded her first commercially released CD; and the all-women band 'Birds', led by Kathy Stobart. She played a successful season at London's sadly defunct jazz club The Bass Clef with the late, great American saxophone innovator, Eddie Harris, broadcast live on Jazz FM radio; and gigged with the US trumpet legend Art Farmer.

Andrea has to date five albums in her own name and has contributed to others such as ‘Round Trip’ and 'East and West’ with Jazz, plus The Vortex Foundation big band.

A prolific composer, she has been commissioned by the Arts Council, the BBC, Jazz Umbrella, the Peter Whittingham Trust, and completed a setting of the poetry of A. E. Housman for the Ludlow festival, released on the CD 'New Perspectives'.

Other projects include The Leasowes Bank Festival; ‘Women in Jazz project’ held at the Hideaway during the London Jazz Festival; and scoring the Chet Baker 'Speedball' musical.

As well as her own band. Andrea often tours with Jazz Extempore, a European quartet which combines the jazz idiom with the folk influences of Eastern Europe. Recent tours have included performances in Italy, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzogovina and Bulgaria.