Andy Hill
Industry
Andy Hill, Dean and Director of studies of the Film Scoring Academy of Europe in Sofia, Bulgaria, is a thirty-five year veteran of the film and television music industry, former vicepresident of music production for Walt Disney Studios, Grammy Award-winning music supervisor, founder of the MFA program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago, and author of Scoring The Screen: The Secret Language Of Film Music (Hal Leonard, June 2017). Films for which he served as executive in charge of music production have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. Projects for which Andy served as music supervisor include Ed Wood, Message In A Bottle, and James and the Giant Peach. As Dean of the Film Scoring Academy, he currently directs its M.F.A. program in Music for Motion Pictures and Contemporary Media, recognized in 2022 and 2023 by the Hollywood Reporter as One Of The Twenty Best Places In The World To Study Film Music.
In 2012, after five years directing the masters program at Columbia College, Andy oversaw the launch of the international MA in film scoring at Berklee College of Music, Valencia, Spain. He then taught and lectured in Europe for three years, and developed a “traveling classroom” in which he taught how to more effectively employ music in cinematic storytelling. From 2015 to 2018, Andy was a visiting lecturer and industry advisor for the masters program in Scoring for Film and Visual Media at Pulse College, Dublin, and has lectured for the University of Edinburgh, HKU, and the University of Austria at Krems. He has been a regular presenter for Krakow's Film Music Festival and Jan Kaczmarek's Transatlantyk Festival in Poznan. As A.W. Hill, he is the author of the Stephan Raszer Investigations novel trilogy; with his son, Nathanael, the YA science-fiction novel, The Switch (2017), and most recently, Ministry (2022). His screenplay, TESLA, received top honors in the Northern Lights Screenplay Competition.
From 2015 to 2019, Andy lived with his family in Nashville, Tennessee, where his company, CINEMUSE (https://www.scoringthescreen.com/composercoaching), provided music supervision and consulting services. He has three times led the Score-Com workshops for the Nashville Composers Association and contributed to On Location: Memphis on behalf of the Memphis Music Banq, as well as providing a lecture series on ‘Film Music for Filmmakers’ at Belmont University. Following his engagement by the Film Scoring Academy of Europe, he returned to Europe and Sofia.
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