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Peter The Great Music Festival |
07-14-2010 |
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The Peter
the Great Festival is a classical music festival
with over forty concerts in the North of Holland from July
28-August 7 2010. This year Artistic Supervisor and eminent
pianist
Rian
de Waal has graciously invited Andy to join the Dante
String Quartet, Hans
van Heiningen (baritone), and Monique
Krüs (soprano) to
present a festival concert on August 1st. Included in the program
will be brand new string quartet arrangements of various pieces
Andy has written or orchestrated for films and interactive
games.
According to the festival website: "With the rise of the
new media in the 20th century, movies and computer games,
a large industry of movie and computer game music has erupted.
Composer Andy Brick will give an interactive,
musical experience."
The concerts are being combined with
lectures, diners, walking-tours, musea visits etc. An important
part of the festival consists of the Summer Academy for
young, talented singers, pianists, organ players, double
bass players and string instrumentalists. If you happen to
be in the area, please come check out the entire festival! You can learn more about the Peter de Grote Festival here: http://www.peterdegrotefestival.nl/en/
And see concert venue and ticketing information here: Concert
Info
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Andy Brick to conduct The Vancouver
Symphony |
06-01-2010 |
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 Venue: Orpheum
Theatre Vancouver, Canada
Date: Monday December 06, 2010 8 PM
Featuring: Andy Brick, guest conductor
Performed by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and a full choir, PLAY!
A Video Game Symphony features award-winning music from a catalogue
of blockbuster video game titles, including Halo, Metal Gear Solid,
Super Mario Bros., Final Fantasy, The Legend of Zelda, and many more.
Stunning graphics on large screens above the orchestra accompany the
exciting scores, highlighting memorable moments from the video games.
Founded in 1919, The Vancouver Symphony
Orchestra's mission is to enrich the quality of life in
and bring prestige to their city, province and country
through the presentation of high-quality performances of
classical and popular music, and the delivery of excellent
education and community programs.
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Andy Brick Scores "Dilla" |
05-10-2010 |
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Eugene Symphony Receives "Thunderous
Ovations" Under the Baton of Andy Brick |
04-29-2010 |
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Andy Brick Appointed Principal Conductor
of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony |
03-11-2010 |
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Mafia II Recorded for 2K Games |
11-11-2009 |
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Andy Brick Composes The Peacock |
9-10-2009 |
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Review: The North Carolina Symphony Concert: "Your audience was Mesmerized!" |
07-21-2009 |
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Andy Brick Composes for Schoolhouse
Rock! Earth: Walt Disney Studios |
03-29-2009 |
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 I
am happy to announce the release of Schoolhouse Rock!
Earth. The original episodes were a huge part of my childhood
and it is with great gratitude and my most warm appreciation
that I extended my heartfelt thanks to Executive
Produce George Newall and Music Director Bob Dorough
for giving me the opportunity to participate in these
new episodes with my song FatCat Blue:The Clean Rivers
Song.
DISNEY PRESENTS ABC'S Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
Burbank, Calif., December 8, 2008—Kids across
America will be rockin' out while learning about the
environment when Schoolhouse Rock! Earth comes to DVD
on March 31, 2009. Schoolhouse Rock educated a generation
of kids about grammar, math, science, economics and
history, winning four Emmy® Awards in the process.
Now, the creators of the original series have created
all-new songs for today's kids. Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
introduces lots of new fun characters and also brings
back several iconic characters including Interplanet
Janet and Mr. Morton for a 21st Century take on the
classic Saturday morning TV series. Perfectly timed
for Earth Day (April 22) 2009, the DVD features eleven
original songs and contemporary animation.
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Andy Brick to conduct The
North Carolina Symphony |
03-01-2009 |
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Verse of Fortune Musical "Freedom
and Flight " & "Under the Stars" orchestrated
by Andy Brick |
02-01-2009 |
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 Congrats
to Christian Holder and Noa Ain for a wonderful piece
of musical theatre and a very big thank you for allowing me
the pleasure of orchestrating for this great collaboration.
Verse of fortune is a universal story of the plight
of The Artist and his quest to produce and create in
the face of adversity, Verse of Fortune focuses on
aspects of the life and work of French symbolist poet,
Charles Baudelaire. Spanning the years from 1844, when
he was a spendthrift bon vivant and chivalrous Dandy,
to 1867, the year of his death when he had become dissipated
and defeated by illness and chronic debt, the libretto
focuses on his twenty-year relationship with his muse, Jeanne
Duval. She is a woman of color from Haiti, and theirs
is a tempestuous union fraught with passion, love and
hostility. Still, Charles remains in love with, and
inspired by, Jeanne to the end.
You can learn more about the show and see video and listen
to audio clips at www.verseoffortune.com |
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Andy Brick Retrospective DVD Released and Available |
11-04-2008 |
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Warhammer Age of Reckoning RELEASED! |
11-01-2008 |
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 Warhammer has been released and the early reviews are in:
"Dramatic music and deep environmental audio is the core of Warhammer
Online’s audio library. Every location, dungeon, battlefield and town
has a strong feel to it, which is driven by what you see and hear and if the
audio was not as strong as it is, the overall game would not be the game of
grand adventures which Warhammer is known for. Even listening to the music
at the server select or character selection screen has this range of hope and
balance to dark and chaotic battle chords. Audio wise Mythic has done a fantastic
job on Warhammer." Warhammer Online:
Age of Reckoning revolves around the continual
worldwide conflict that the Warhammer Fantasy setting is known for.
For this title I orchestrated a terrific soundtrack by Mythics Brad
Derrick, wrote some hard-core contemporty music
cues, and conducted the Filmharmonic of Prague.
Congrats to Brad Derrick, Muisc Director, composer, sound guru and the rest of the EA/Mythic Team on this great success! It was a great pleasure to contribute to this epic soundtrack!
More details at the Warhammer Online official website |
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In Your Heart |
06-20-2008 |
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 I've been doing great sessions for a song called "In Your Heart". The song is by Lyricist and overall renaissance man Christian Holder and composer Noa Ain with arrangements by yours truly. The song will be packed up and sent off to Christians long time friend and musical wonderwoman Tina Turner.
We had some great performances:
Vocalist Carol Woods (Broadway's Chicago, Follies
and the Full Monte) came in to do a take-no-prisoners
killer vocal. What a pro -- ready to deliver and
completely accommodating -- she was totally prepared
and ready to go! Saxophonist "Sweet" Sue
Terry came in for some sax work. It was a pleasure
to work with her. There was some specific parts
that I had written for her but i also wanted to
just turn on the mic and let her do her thing so
we just turned on the song, put her track in record
and she proceeded to negotiate some sophisticated
chord changes like some shaman, guru-like intuit
-- no chart in front of her (!). She's a monster.
As always, my dear friend and compatriot Reed Robins
was behind the board making everything sound terrific
as well as turning on the groove with some killer
guitar tracks.
Screen captures from the talkback video feed (video link between control room and booth) are here |
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The Baltimore Symphony performs PLAY!
under the baton of Andy Brick |
04-24-2008 |
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 I am very pleased to announce that on Friday, July 18th
2008 I will be conducting PLAY! with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra at the Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
The PLAY! concert
tour is a production by Jason Michael Paul Productions Inc.,
the team behind the Dear Friends -Music from Final Fantasy-
symphony tour. Grammy award winner Maestro Arnie Roth, Music
Director and Principal Conductor of the Chicagoland Pops,
serves as Principal Conductor and Music Director for PLAY!.
Andy Brick, known for conducting the Symphonic Game Music
Concerts serves as the Associate Conductor.
Tickets to the PLAY! concert in Baltimore are available
online at www.bsomusic.org or by calling The Baltimore Symphony's
Box Office at 1-877-BSO-1444 or in person at the Box Office
located at 1212 Cathedral Street Baltimore, Md 21201.
On the heels of a 5 year tenure with the Symphonic Game
Music Concerts, the Czech National Symphony and the Filmharmonic
Orchestra of Prague, Mr. Brick will take the podium presenting
PLAY! A Video Game Symphony (http://www.play-symphony.com) |
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Andy Brick appointed Associate
Professor and Director of Music & Technology
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01-16-2008 |
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Andy Brick Orchestrates Halo for
the Seattle Symphony |
12-01-2007 |
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 Andy Brick is pleased to announce the completion of
work on his concert orchestration of music from the blockbuster
video game series Halo 1,2 and 3. Prof. Brick worked with
famed Halo composer Marty O'Donnell to create this dynamic
score. The score, which included professor Brick's premier
orchestration of music from Halo 3 received its debut performances
with the Fort Worth and Seattle Symphonies.
From Wikipedia...
"[Halo] has been praised as being among the best and
most influential first-person shooters on a game console,
with Halo being the Microsoft Xbox's "killer app".
This has led to the term "Halo killer" being used
to describe console games that aspire to be better than Halo.
Halo's sequel, Halo 2, broke sales records for a media release,
and Halo 3 sold more than US $170 million worth of copies
in the first 24 hours of release, breaking the record of
Halo 2. As of October 4, 2007, all three Halo games combined
have sold more than 20 million copies. The franchise has
expanded to include five novels, several graphic novels,
and numerous other licensed products, from action figures
to Mountain Dew. The cultural impact of the Halo series has
been compared to that of the Star Wars franchise, with
those who enjoy the series being dubbed the "Halo Nation". |
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5th Symphonic Game Music
Concert Receives Standing Ovation and Accolades! |
09-01-2007 |
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Wonderpets: Ollie Orchestrated
and Conducted |
05-01-2007 |
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Symphonic Game Music Concert 2007 confirmed |
03-01-2007 |
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Wonder Pets Meet The Beetles |
03-01-2007 |
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Andy Brick composes for
Sinbad |
01-01-2007 |
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The Carpentier Quartet at the Cutting Room |
10-01-2006 |
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Andy Brick Orchestrates Mutiny On The Bounty for MGM / Disney |
09-13-2006 |
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Andy Brick Featured on CBS National Evening News |
09-13-2006 |
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Fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert SOLD OUT |
06-13-2006 |
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Fourth Symphonic Game Music Concert Announced |
06-01-2006 |
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Nintendo Chamber Music Concert |
05-07-2006 |
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Andy Brick Appointed Associate Conductor of PLAY! A Video Game Symphony |
03-20-2006 |
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"Heros of Imagination" Concert Series |
01-20-2006 |
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Andy Brick appointed Adjunct
Professor of Orchestration |
11-26-2005 |
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Into the Lion's Den |
10-21-2005 |
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3rd Symphonic Game Music Concert Receives Standing Ovation! |
8-24-2005 |
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Preparations for the 3nd Symphonic Game Music Concert |
7-6-2005 |
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Midway Announces Stranglehold
with Music by Andy Brick |
06-10-2005 |
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Masterworks of the New Era Competition |
5-01-2005 |
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Symphonic Game Music Concert Announced |
4-26-2005 |
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Garritan Personal Orchestra
Commission and the GPO Competition |
03-10-2005 |
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2nd Symphonic Game Music
Concert is "an evening
of complete perfection" |
9-04-2004 |
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 Europe's second Symphonic Game Music Concert, which kicked off the GC Games Convention this year, has received a great deal of praise and enthusiasm from audience members and the media once again. Press from all over the world attended the event, radio and TV stations such as MDR,ARD and RTL; newspapers such as Die Zeit, Leipziger Volkszeitung andLibération; and magazines such as Famitsu, Telepolis and IGN.com were all represented. Around 60 minutes of the finest video game music was performed, including songs from Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid and Turrican. The conductor, Andy Brick and the FILMharmonic Orchestra were celebrated afterwards with 15 minutes of standing-ovations. But of course the applause was also meant for the fabulous composers of the music, like Nobuo Uematsu, Yuzo Koshiro, Chris Huelsbeck, Fabian Del Priore, Markus Holler and Richard Jacques.
The sold-out Gewandhaus was "trembling" amid the audience's fervent response when these superstars came on stage after the performance of the "excellent" music, as the newspaper Leipziger Volkszeitung wrote. The online magazineGameSurf called it a "fulminant concert", and a "real insider's tip to wallow in nostalgia and to duly herald the trading fair". Krawall.net commended the "continuous high quality" of
the orchestra and called attendance
a must for video game fans. Macinplay
shared their enthusiasm and complimented
the "atmospheric, virtuous and grandios" FILMharmonic Orchestra.
The German magazine DemoNews even published a feature article about the concert in which the authors expressed their "overhelmed feelings" due to the "variation and the vast professionalism". They went on to say: "The concert definitely is worth attending. If you did not come this year, you were missing something. Do not miss this chance again!" They described it as, "an evening of completed perfection". The American IGN.com agreed: "The varied mix and reliable performances signal(ed) a great start for yet another successful gaming convention in Leipzig". The German website Adventure-Treff hopes for upcoming concerts of this kind at the Games Convention, and sent thanks to the organisers: "Especially at this moment it becomes obvious that video games are more than cheap and short entertainment, but also have an artistic value". The Czech magazine Level underlined the previous comments by saying that "The magic of game music played by an orchestra made every heart in the Gewandhaus race. Ovations, crazy smiles and undeniable emotions were exploding throughout the entire audience."
The following experience by journalist Matthias Oborski was published in an article by the German newspaper Die Zeit: "Tears are running over the cheeks of the pudgy nerd with glasses next to me as the sounds of Turrican fill the room for the finale. Maybe for the first time in his life his hobby, his passion, his childhood, his heart's blood, his life is taken seriously and presented in a socially accepted scope". Matthias finishes his thoughts on his website saying: "I very much envy him at this moment. He is the first who stands up after the last tone and he claps louder than all the others. Standing ovations. The composers, heroes of my generation, come on stage. A second later I also stand up. Momentous.
{quoted from www.merregnon.com}
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Feature interview with Andy Brick on Studio 360 will air nationally on all PRI affiliates |
8-7-2004 |
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Merregnon 2 FINISHED |
5-06-2004 |
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Symphonic Game Music Concert Announced |
3-16-2004 |
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Symphony Magazine |
3-01-2004 |
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 Symphony Magazine, one of the leading publications
for orchestral music has published an article
about Orchestral Game Music! The article speaks
of the emergence of orchestral game music as "one of the fastest-growing influences
on video games" It is a great pleasure to see such a respected
publication dedicate the "curtain" section of their magazine
to our industry! You can take a look at the article by either
finding the March-April 2004 issue of Symphony Magazine or by
clicking here.
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The BBC Radio |
12-05-2003 |
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The New York Times |
11-09-2003 |
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Andy Brick ComposesThe
Sims 2 |
10-28-2003 |
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 I
have just put the final touches
on the music I have written and
orchestrated for the upcoming blockbuster
game title The Sims 2. Since the
live orchestral music for Sim City
Rush hour was received with such
high regards, the folks at Maxis/Electronic
Arts decided to continue the adventure
and add some orchestral music to
this highly anticipated title.
Since I had such a great experience
recording the Bottom Line soundtrack
with the Bratislava Symphony earlier
this past summer, we decided to
go with the full 70 piece symphony
this time. Gotta go pack my bags.
My plane leaves in 18 hours. A
few days later...... So far so
good! These cues are a bit longer
than the average film cue so we
are pacing ourselves at a rate
of one cue per recording session.
We are recording Sims 2 in Slovensky
Rhozlas (Slovak Radio) on sound
stage 2. The room sounds really
great and our engineer John Pinkerly
tells us it is a very good acoustic
space. The really interesting thing
about this studio is the architecture
of building. Imagine an Egyptian
Pyramid. Flip it upside-down so
it stands on its point and that
is what the Slovak Radio building
looks like. Its rather amusing.
Today we finished my first cue.
It went very well and I got a
nice little tap-tap-tap from the
players on their stands (their
way of showing that they liked
the piece) At the end of the piece
Jerry asked me if I could write
some short 5-10 second stings
on the spot. Since Jerry asked
me to act as Music Director (what
we call Score Reader here in the
U.S.) I am not conducting on these
sessions. So, with the orchestra
on break for 20 minutes, I asked
everyone to clear out of the control
room and give me absolute silence.
I then wrote 15 stings during
the break. When all the players
returned, I headed down to the
sound stage with my score to explain
to the conductor what I wanted.
Our conductor, however, is Spanish
and only speaks Slovak and Spanish.
Luckily I can speak a decent amount
of Spanish. The whole thing was
a bit surreal. There I was in
this upside-down pyramid with the
Bratislava Symphony writing cues
on the spot then explaining them
to the conductor in spanish who
then, in turn, translated my instructions
into Slovak. Alas, somehow, everyone
managed to understand what I wanted
and the stings were recorded without
any problems at all. Learn more
about the Sims 2 by visiting
Thesims2.ea.com
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Billboard Magazine Article |
9-06-2003 |
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Andy Brick Conducts
Historic Symphonic Game Music
Concert at the Gewandhaus |
8-21-2003 |
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Composing the official Opening Fanfare for the
GC 2003 Leipzig |
8-01-2003 |
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Sim City "Rush Hour" recorded with Moravian
Philharmonic |
7-13-2003 |
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Bottom Line recorded with Bratislava Symphony |
6-24-2003 |
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