Andy Hill

Andy Hill has devoted more than two decades to the craft of scoring music for the screen. Although he has been a student of composition throughout his career and has “learned at the wheel” from film music artists like Elmer Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, and Danny Elfman, his contribution to the craft is not as a composer but as a producer, mentor, and teacher.

After teaching film music at Columbia in the 80’s, Andy served for nine years as Disney’s VP of Music Production, overseeing the composition and recording of music for five Oscar-winning scores, including “The Lion King.” Following this, he worked as an independent music supervisor and executive music producer on films such as “Ed Wood,” “Hoodlum,” “Anastasia,” and “Message In A Bottle.” In 2000, Andy earned a Grammy Award as producer of the music for “The Adventures Of Elmo In Grouchland,” and in 2004, he developed and taught the first of Columbia’s Semester In L.A. Film Scoring Workshops, a role he has repeated three summers since then, and which led directly to his engagement as director of the new MFA in Music Composition for the Screen. He is the author of two published novels, The Last Days of Madame Rey (Carroll & Graf 2007) and Enoch’s Portal (Champion Press 2002.)