Andy Brick is agraduate of the University of Michigan where he studied Composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Basset.  Brick continued studies in composition and theory at Mannes College of Music, New York and was accepted as a priivate studient of Paul Lustig Dunkel, Conductor of the American Composers Orchestra and Westchester Philharmonic.  He currently serves as Industry Associate Professor of Music  at Stevens Institute of Technology.  

Composer:

Prof. Andy Brick is a prolific composer, conductor and symphonist of music for film, television, live concerts and interactive games. As protégé for Walt Disney Pictures’ senior orchestrator Danny Troob, Andy wrote scores for animated movies such as Little Mermaid II and The Lady and The Tramp II. With his 2006 Orchestration of the classic film Mutiny On the Bounty for Warner Bros. Pictures, Andy has become recognized as a leading film orchestrator. Andy’s Tone Poem The Story of The Red Rose was used in its entirety on the film of the same name and earned him best original score for the film which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. Described as “hautingly beautiful, Brick’s Rose has brought film music to a different dimension” the score went on to help him win the ASCAP Young Film Composer Award in which he rescored the classic live action film 101 Dalmatians. Andy has orchestrated and/or composed music for such blockbuster Game titles as Maxis’ Sim City: Ruch Hour, Midway Entertainments’ Stranglehold, and Electronic Arts’ Sims 2 and Square Enix Final Fantasy series. His music has also been featured in such game titles as Arc The Lad by Working Designs, Shadoan by Interplay,The Far Reaches by 3DO, Tesselmania by MECC and others. In October 2004 Andy received his first orchestral concert commission. The resulting work entitled “Gygrans Song” was performed live by the Moravian Philharmonic. In June 2005 Andy won the prestigious “Masterworks of the New Era” award for his composition “Hungarian Overture”. The work was recorded in July by the Kiev Philharmonic and is released on the ERM label and distributed in all major retail outlets throughout the US and Europe. Most recently Andy has secured a staff writing position for the highly successful television cartoon The Wonderpets.

Conductor:

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In August 2003 Brick conducted the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in the world’s first Symphonic Game Music concert at the historic Gewandaus, Leipzig Germany to a sold out audience of 2200. Andy wrote the fanfare to this historic concert event and his music for Merregnon II was featured. In 2004, 2005, 2006 & 2007 Andy orchestrated and conducted European encore performances of similar game music concerts. Andy has conducted and/or orchestrated music for over 50 game titles including The Legend of Zelda, Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII, Harry Potter, Turrican, and Everquest II with orchestras throughout the world including The Prague Symphony, The Czech National Symphony, The Bratislava Symphony, The Moravian Philharmonic, The Filmharmonic of Prague and members of the New York Philharmonic and Detroit Symphony. In 2005 Andy was appointed music director of the European concert series, “Heros of Imagination”. This concert series features new symphonic music Andy has written exclusively for this concert series. In 2006 Andy Brick was appointed associate conductor of “Play!” the largest symphonic game music concert series to date. Included in the tour are appearances with The National Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, the Detroit Symphony and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.

In the News:

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Andy’s music has been featured by the American Music Center’s “The New Music Box” and PRI’s “Studio 360” In Print, Andy has been the featured composer in the New York Times article “A Composer Gives Video Games a Musical Life” and was the featured “Songwriter” in Billboard Magazine’s. article “Brick Brings Videogame Scores to Life with Orchestra” Recently, Andy was selected as the featured conductor in the “Young, Gifted, and Engaged” issue of SYMPHONY Magazine and in early 2007 Andy was featured on the national edition of CBS Evening News.

More information on Andy Brick is available online at http://www.andybrick.com