Andrew M. Edwards
- Composer
- Music Department
- Producer
Andrew M. Edwards is an award-winning media composer based in Southern California.
Andrew most recently completed the music for "David Again," which won Best Short Documentary at the Beloit International Film Festival, before appearing in the Tribeca Film Festival, Dances With Films, and Short Shorts, and was praised in Variety magazine. The massive, feature-length orchestral score for the noir-detective-stoner-comedy, "Somewhere Confidential," was just released, and he is presently hard at work on his second collaboration with director Wendell Etherly, "Gaia."
For the PBS documentary, "Chicago Stories: Downtown Disasters," Andrew created an energetic and innovative score in collaboration with the avant-garde classical musicians of Ensemble Dal Niente. Fuelled by a Global Music Award-winning soundtrack, "'85: The Greatest Team in Football History," features President Barack Obama, Mike Ditka, Bill Murray, and an impressive roster of Chicago luminaries telling the definitive story of the Super Bowl champion "Monsters of the Midway."
Andrew's retro synth score for the horror-comedy feature film, "Camp Wedding," was awarded "Best Original Score (Silver)" at the Queen Palm International Film Festival, and a Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards. He also scored the documentary "Alex & Ali," which took home "Best Documentary" awards from several international film festivals, including Frameline San Francisco Int'l Film Festival and Reeling Chicago LGBT Film Festival.
With writer/director Jennifer Heaton, he has co-written "Scarlet Lines: A Gothic Musical" and "Kala: A Musical Faerie Tale," the latter of which is now updated and available for community and high school theatre productions. Andrew has enjoyed a long-time collaboration with author and screenwriter Richard Dinnick (Doctor Who, Lost In Space). Their first project together was the two-part audio drama, "Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Wanderer," from Big Finish Productions - starring the late, great William Russell ("The Great Escape"). The original soundtrack for "Rob" - the 26-episode webcomic series from Dinnick and Legendary Comics - features an eclectic, swashbuckling mix of retro electronics and epic orchestral music.
In 2021, the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive accepted Andrew as a Fellow, where he studied conducting and orchestration with Hollywood legends Conrad Pope and William Ross.
Born in Urbana, IL, Andrew's early cultural life was multifaceted and omnivorous; attending concerts and theatre performances with his parents, ravenously devouring TV and movies with his friends, and performing in school and church ensembles. Andrew later moved to New York City, where he enjoyed a busy career of gigging with bands and live sound mixing (including a position as in-house audio engineer at the Tribeca Film Festival). Returning to Chicago to study film scoring, Andrew became a Columbia College Chicago MFA Media Music Program professor before relocating to Southern California in 2018.
Andrew is now based in the Palm Springs area, where he lives with his stalwart husband, Andrew, and their tailless rescue cat, Estrella.
Andrew most recently completed the music for "David Again," which won Best Short Documentary at the Beloit International Film Festival, before appearing in the Tribeca Film Festival, Dances With Films, and Short Shorts, and was praised in Variety magazine. The massive, feature-length orchestral score for the noir-detective-stoner-comedy, "Somewhere Confidential," was just released, and he is presently hard at work on his second collaboration with director Wendell Etherly, "Gaia."
For the PBS documentary, "Chicago Stories: Downtown Disasters," Andrew created an energetic and innovative score in collaboration with the avant-garde classical musicians of Ensemble Dal Niente. Fuelled by a Global Music Award-winning soundtrack, "'85: The Greatest Team in Football History," features President Barack Obama, Mike Ditka, Bill Murray, and an impressive roster of Chicago luminaries telling the definitive story of the Super Bowl champion "Monsters of the Midway."
Andrew's retro synth score for the horror-comedy feature film, "Camp Wedding," was awarded "Best Original Score (Silver)" at the Queen Palm International Film Festival, and a Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards. He also scored the documentary "Alex & Ali," which took home "Best Documentary" awards from several international film festivals, including Frameline San Francisco Int'l Film Festival and Reeling Chicago LGBT Film Festival.
With writer/director Jennifer Heaton, he has co-written "Scarlet Lines: A Gothic Musical" and "Kala: A Musical Faerie Tale," the latter of which is now updated and available for community and high school theatre productions. Andrew has enjoyed a long-time collaboration with author and screenwriter Richard Dinnick (Doctor Who, Lost In Space). Their first project together was the two-part audio drama, "Doctor Who: The Companion Chronicles - The Wanderer," from Big Finish Productions - starring the late, great William Russell ("The Great Escape"). The original soundtrack for "Rob" - the 26-episode webcomic series from Dinnick and Legendary Comics - features an eclectic, swashbuckling mix of retro electronics and epic orchestral music.
In 2021, the Los Angeles Film Conducting Intensive accepted Andrew as a Fellow, where he studied conducting and orchestration with Hollywood legends Conrad Pope and William Ross.
Born in Urbana, IL, Andrew's early cultural life was multifaceted and omnivorous; attending concerts and theatre performances with his parents, ravenously devouring TV and movies with his friends, and performing in school and church ensembles. Andrew later moved to New York City, where he enjoyed a busy career of gigging with bands and live sound mixing (including a position as in-house audio engineer at the Tribeca Film Festival). Returning to Chicago to study film scoring, Andrew became a Columbia College Chicago MFA Media Music Program professor before relocating to Southern California in 2018.
Andrew is now based in the Palm Springs area, where he lives with his stalwart husband, Andrew, and their tailless rescue cat, Estrella.
