Andy Brick
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Andy Brick (born June 8, 1965) is an American composer, conductor, and symphonist notable for his contributions to film scores, video game music and symphonic game music concerts.
Brick was born in New York but grew up in suburban Chicago. Brick studied composition under Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Bassett at the University of Michigan and completed graduate studies in composition at the Mannes School of Music in Manhattan.[1] In 1990, After completing his formal conservatory studies, Brick began scoring independent films. In 1996 Brick won the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers young film composers competition.[2] He later studied under, and worked with, famed Walt Disney orchestrator Danny Troob and Maestro Paul Lustig Dunkel of the American Composers Orchestra [3]
Video game and film music
Brick has composed and/or orchestrated music for game titles that include Maxis' Sim City: Rush Hour, Midway's Stranglehold,[4] Electronic Arts' The Sims 2[4] and Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning[5] as well as Nintendo's Super Mario Bros., Bungie's Halo 3, and Square Enix's 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.[4]
