Hi again, below is the edit I would like to make to the wiki page about me.  Pretty much all of the information is a matter of public record and pretty easily verifiable.  This is the same bio that is used by the university at which I am a professor.  In fact, I think thats how the edit may have gotten tagged as a copyright violation.  Nevertheless, this bio, which I wrote, does appear in various public forums so I hope that it doesnt present any problems.  Here is what I would like to say:

Andy Brick is a prolific composer, conductor and symphonist.  In 2003 Brick set a historic milestone conducting the Czech National Symphony Orchestra in the world’s first symphonic game music concert at the Gewandaus, Leipzig Germany to a sold out audience of 2200.  Andy wrote the fanfare to this historic concert event which featured his music for Merregnon II. He has served as the exclusive principle conductor and music director of the concert series leading repeatedly sold out performances from 2003-2008. In 2005 Andy was appointed music director of  the European concert series, “Heros of Imagination”.  This concert series featured new symphonic music written by Andy and performed by the Neue Elbland Philharmonie.  Brick also served as music director for the first Chamber Music Concert of the Kammerphilharmonie.  Brick has conducted over 70 game titles including Final Fantasy, Super Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Halo, and World of Warcraft with orchestras throughout the world including The Prague Symphony, The Czech National Symphony, The North Carolina Symphony, The Bratislava Symphony, The Moravian Philharmonic, The Filmharmonic of Prague and members of the New York Philharmonic and Detroit Symphony. In 2007 Andy Brick was appointed associate conductor of “Play! A Video Game Symphony” and made his most recent appearance conducting the North Carolina Symphony in July 2009.   

Andy has composed and/or orchestrated music for such blockbuster Game titles as Maxis’ Sim City: Rush Hour, Midway Entertainments’ Stranglehold, Electronic Arts’ Sims 2 and Warhammer: Day of Reckoning as well as Nintendos Super Mario Bros., Bungie’s Halo 3, 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. 

As a protégé of Walt Disney Pictures’ Andy wrote scores for animated feature films such as Little Mermaid II and The Lady and The Tramp II. In 2007 Andy was commissioned by Walt Disney to compose and conduct music for Sinbad’s Storybook Adventure.  In 2008 Disney/ABC Television again commissioned Andy to write new music for ABC’s Schoolhouse Rock. Andy re-orchestrated the classic film Mutiny On the Bounty for Warner Bros. Pictures.  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.  He has also scored various independent films including Uphill All The Way with Susan Sarandon and The Cine Golden Eagle award winning Chatham County.   In 2009 Andy was retained as senior orchestrator for the upcoming Broadway musical Verse of Fortune. 

Andy has been featured by the American Music Center’s “The New Music Box”, PRI’s “Studio 360” the National broadcast of the CBS Evening News and various local and national media outlets.    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. 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 concert composition “Hungarian Overture”.  The work was recorded by the Kiev Philharmonic and released on the ERM label and distributed in all major retail outlets throughout the US and Europe.  In Jan 2009 Andy completed work on his most recent concert piece entitled The Peacock. 

Andy Brick is a graduate of the University of Michigan where he studied Composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Basset.  Brick continued his studies in composition and theory at Mannes College of Music, New York.  He currently serves as Associate Professor and Director of the Music program at Stevens Institute of Technology.  

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