ANDY BRICK
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is a dynamic composer, conductor, music technologist and educator.
Mr. Brick has won the ASCAP Young Film Composer Award and has
already composed and conducted the music for 4 Disney Films and over 50
video game titles with full symphony orchestras.
Andy has designed the acclaimed ORCHESTRATION Course at Stevens.
Some of his work includes...Disney’s Little Mermaid II and Lady & The Tramp II
as well as his blockbuster game titles, The Sims, Merregnon 2, and Stranglehold.
A question and answer session will immediately follow Andy’s presentation.
Andy Brick is a prolific composer, conductor and symphonist of music
for film, television, live concerts and interactive games. As protégé
of Walt Disney Pictures’ Senior Composer and Orchestrator Danny Troob,
Andy wrote scores for animated movies such as Little Mermaid II and The
Lady and The Tramp II. In August 2003 he 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 scored the fanfare to this historic concert event and his music for
Merregnon II was featured. In 2004 and 2005 Andy orchestrated and conducted
European encore performances of similar game music concerts. Andy has
orchestrated and composed music for such blockbuster Game titles as Maxis’
Sim City: Ruch Hour, Midway Entertainments’ Stranglehold, and Electronic
Arts’ Sims 2. 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. Andy has conducted and/or
orchestrated music for over 50 game titles including 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. 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 Video game Scores
to Life with Orchestra” Recently, Andy was selected as the featured conductor
in the “Young, Gifted, and Engaged” issue of SYMPHONY Magazine. 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 will be released on the ERM label and distributed
in all major retail outlets throughout the US and Europe. Andy Brick is
a graduate of the University of Michigan where he studied Composition
with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Basset. Brick continued
graduate studies in composition and theory at Mannes College of Music,
New York. More information on Andy Brick is available online at