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 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 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 in 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 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 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 andy has composed and or orchestrated music for such blockbuster game titles as maxis sim city rush hour midway entertainments stranglehold electronic arts sims and warhammer day of reckoning as well as nintendos super mario bros bungie s halo 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 do tesselmania by mecc and others as a prot g of walt disney pictures andy wrote scores for animated feature films such as little mermaid ii and the lady and the tramp ii in andy was commissioned by walt disney to compose and conduct music for sinbad s storybook adventure in 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 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 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 andy received his first orchestral concert commission the resulting work entitled gygrans song was performed live by the moravian philharmonic in june 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 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