Film Composer/Symphonist Andy Brick Conducts First Video Game Symphony Concert

"I am the conductor of the concert and one of the composers", confirmed Brick,
"As conductor it will be my duty to bring these pieces to the orchestra,
rehearse them and evoke the best interpretation possible. The process is
pretty intense as I have a lot of scores in a lot of different styles from a
lot of different composers!"

Brick has extensive experience in composing and recording live orchestral
scores for cinematic soundtracks and is a winner of numerous prestigious
awards for his original music, including ASCAP Young Film Composer
Award, ASCAP Popular Music Award, and CINE
Golden Eagle Award. Brick’s music has also premiered and/or won Best
Original Score accolades at the Sundance Film Festival,
New York Film Festival, and Sony International Film
Festival.

"Andy Brick is a prolific composer, conductor and symphonist of music for
film, television, live concerts and interactive games", attested event
producer Thomas Böcker, "His dedication and professionalism will undoubtedly
help to make this concert a groundbreaking event!"

Brick has scored the fanfare to the concert which will officially open
GC-Games Convention 2003 and his music for Merregnon II
(www.merregnon.com), the epic fantasy game score album recently recorded with
The Prague Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonic Choir, will also feature in a
world premier Merregnon II ‘suite’ live performance.
As Music Director/Composer, Conductor and Senior Orchestrator, Brick worked
alongside producer Thomas Böcker (Merregnon Studios), and arranged and
orchestrated new original compositions by veteran game composers such as Yuzo
Koshiro (Shenmue, Streets of Rage) and Chris Hlsbeck (Star
Wars: Rogue Leader series). The soundtrack is due for release later this
year.

Andy Brick’s award-winning music has enhanced a variety of critically
acclaimed films like Chatham County (Sony
International Film Festival), The Story of the Red Rose
(Sundance Film Festival), and Uphill All The Way (Lean
Parador Pictures) featuring Susan Sarandon. As the protege of Walt Disney
Pictures’ Senior Composer and Orchestrator Danny Troob, Brick wrote scores for
animated movies such as Little Mermaid II and
Lady and The Tramp II. Other film credits include
Awake (Lucine Productions), The Trial of
Fentris Waterloo (Independent Feature Film Market & First Run
Film Festival), and Graduation Day (Spenelli Films).
Productions for American Express, Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and
Warner Bros. also feature music by Andy Brick.

In games he has composed music for projects by Electronic Arts,
Sony, Interplay, Broderbund,
Saffire, Mattel, JoWood,
and Konami. His game score credits include Rick Dyer’s
(of Dragon’s Lair fame) The Far Reaches, for which
a bonus soundtrack album of Brick’s music was released. He also scored Dyer’s
epic Tolkien-esque, fantasy adventure Kingdom II: Shadoan
released on PC and PlayStation 2. In 2002, Brick provided new music for
the US release of Arc The Lad Collection (Working Designs), one
of the best-selling RPG videogame series in Japan. Additionally, he has
written extensively about recording live orchestras for game soundtracks in
Game Developer and other major industry publications. He is currently
working with Electronic Arts’ Maxis Studios as Composer and Orchestrator for
Sim City 4: Rush Hour, recorded with The Moravian Philharmonic
in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Brick is an Undergraduate of the University of Michigan (with Honors) where he
studied Composition with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Leslie Basset. As
well, he holds a Graduate studies certificate in Composition from Mannes
College of Music, New York. Brick has conducted The Prague Symphony Orchestra,
a Sandy DeCrescent A-List Hollywood orchestra on the Fox Newman soundstage,
and members of the New York Philharmonic and Detroit Symphonies. Most recently
Brick returned to the Czech Republic to record with a 70-piece orchestra for a
new film soundtrack and he also completed orchestration for the TV movie
The Music Man (ABC) featuring Matthew Broderick. He
currently lives and works in New York. More information on Andy Brick is
available online at www.andybrick.com