Andrew Horowitz
| Andrew Horowitz | |
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| Current member of Tally Hall | |
| Date of Birth: | October 12, 1983 |
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| Hometown: | Warren, NJ / Tewksbury, NJ |
| Current resident of: | Nashville, TN / Brooklyn, NY |
| Other Names: | edu, Andy, Colonel Popcorn, Andy Witz, the incredible andrew horowitz |
Andrew David Horowitz, better known as Andrew or Andy Horowitz, is an American musical artist and member of the Michigan band Tally Hall.
Biography
Andrew Horowitz began piano studies at the age of five, and was composing pieces when he was eight, partly due to Andrew being "bored with other people's music". At age 12 he began taking music lessons to better his musical skills.[1] In high school, he pursued private composition and piano studies with faculty at the Juilliard School. He also played in the New York Youth Symphony, led an active jazz quartet, musical directed for several musical theatre productions, and worked as a freelance pianist.[2]
Andrew attended The Pingry School in Martinsville, NJ. (Now, "Basking Ridge".) The Pingry EP was named after the Pingry school, since the band would go play concerts there from time to time in their earlier years. After attending The Pingry School, Andrew would graduate in 2001 and started attending the University of Michigan.
In December 2002, friend Rob Cantor would ask Andrew to play a gig with Rob and Zubin Sedghi. This gig would be the first gig performed by Tally Hall. The first song he wrote for Tally Hall was Good Day and in 2004, Andrew won the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship award for $10,000 because of the song.[3]
After forming Tally Hall, Andrew created a band focused around using toy instruments, the Toy Orchestra. The band was primarily composed of friends from the University of Michigan, with a mix of original songs and cover songs. Andrew also created a project with his brother Steven called The Baker Bros., which was a mashup remix project of Jay-Z songs and classical music. Both would be put on hold however, when Andrew started to take Tally Hall more seriously in the fall of 2005.[4]
In 2005 Andrew graduated from the University of Michigan with a double degree in Music Composition and English Language and Literature.[2]
He has studied composition privately with Susan Botti, Michael Daugherty, Curtis Curtis-Smith, and Evan Chambers. In the summer of 2004 (or 2003?) he studied with Dr. Philip Lasser and Michel Merlot at La Schola Cantorum in Paris.
On the 2006 website, Andrew's bio read thusly:
andrew hails from the wonderful state of new jersey. he began playing piano at five and composing at eight.
Andrew Horowitz is he green tie in tally hall. He is a keyboardist and vocalist in sings such as: Taken for a ride and The Whole World and You. He was also Mr.Moon is Spring and a Storm.
eye color: brown height: 5'10 (give or take an inch) likes: ice-cream, indie flicks, laughter, smiles, the sky.... why he's stayed in the band: he writes songs, owns a keyboard and amp (and the rehearsal p.a. system!), and plays a mean tambourine and meaner maracas. musical obsessions: Brian Wilson, sly and the family stone, Mahler, Gil Evans, Uri Caine, everything. he is obsessed. literature/poetry obsessions: e.e.cummings, john Irving, Edward Gorey, lots of other stuff. currently graphic novels. favorite overused words: awesome, splendid favorite finger: 4th finger on left hand. seriously. favorite color: not green. probably blue. interesting, huh?
Serious facts..... selected musical groups/places he's been or is in: ny youth symphony (for one year.........and then....not.), Toy Orchestra (his current 25-piece experimental indie band (damn)), Baker Bros (hip-hop project remixing classical music and rhymes), Aspen Music Festival, Interlochen, LA schola cantorum counterpoint workshop in paris most recently studied composition with: Karen Tanaka and William Bolcom. stuff he's won: 2 Hopwood awards for fiction and poetry, 2004 John Lennon scholarship for "Good Day," performed and recorded by Tally Hall will graduate in April 2005 with: bm composition and ba English lit and language. current projects: contemporary music commissions, a musical, a film score for sir Joseph Hawley, writing good pop songs...
he also is a music journalist for the Michigan daily. that is why tally hall is rarely mentioned in the paper. it is against the rules.
As stated in his 2006 bio, Andrew was a music journalist for the Michigan Daily for many years and wrote an article about making it big in the music industry and all of the perils of it.[5]
From early 2017 to early 2018, Horowitz has been credited on working with artists like Jidenna and Livia Blanc.[6]
On April 19th, 2018, Andrew released an album, Etudes, of several piano etudes he wrote in 2003.[7]
During the COVID-19 pandemic Andrew has hosted multiple livestreams on Instagram, titled Keep Up The Good Work. These have featured interviews with fellow Tally Hall bandmates and figures, including Rob, Zubin, Ross, and Coz Baldwin. In 2021, he started Keep Up The Good Work season 2 after a year long hiatus.
Edu
On November 23rd, 2011, Andrew released the details of his new solo project, edu, along with a song called Miss Melody that is included in his first set of demos called cassette tape 1 which was being distributed on cassette tapes in January 2012.[8]
In 2014, he collaborated with The Gregory Brothers to make a minor rendition of 'The Rainbow Connection', a song he covered on his first album Sketches.[9][10]
On June 2nd, 2019, Andrew revealed that he would be releasing a re-vamped version of his first album "Sketches", entitled "Sketches 3d", through Kickstarter. The new version would include a vinyl, and digital release[11][12][13]
Trivia
- Andrew's middle name is David.
- Andrew knows 3 Russian dances[14]
- Andrew almost got arrested once in 2007.
- One of Andrew's favorite albums is the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds.
- In 2006, Andrew recommended Pet Sounds by the Beach Boys, The Singable Songs Collection by Raffi, Shostakovich's Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9, Pink Moon by Nick Drake, and Girls Can Tell by Spoon for Amazon.com.
- Andrew is Jewish.
- Andrew plays the Suicidal Penguin on Tally Hall's Internet Show.[15]
- Andrew's favorite songs from Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum are The Whole World and You, and Spring And A Storm, because he feels the songs have a raw emotion that lets him detach himself from them and to enjoy them like any other song.[16]
Songs
The following is an alphabetical compilation of the songs Andrew Horowitz has written or helped to write:
Solo Work
Links
References
- ↑ Living Music interview with Rob and Andrew, circa 2005.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Andrew Horowitz Bio. Accessed 5th June, 2019.
- ↑ The Pingry Record. April 29th 2005. PDF.
- ↑ The Pingry Record. March 10th 2006. PDF.
- ↑ In My Own Words: Making it Big by Andrew Horowitz, February 16th, 2006
- ↑ Andrew's production website.
- ↑ Etudes. Spotify.
- ↑ Cassette Tape 1. Bandcamp.
- ↑ 'Minor Rainbow Connection'. The Gregory Brothers. April 6th, 2014. Facebook Video.
- ↑ 'Minor rendition of The Rainbow Connection from Andrew Horowitz and The Gregory Brothers' taken from The Gregory Brothers' Facebook page April 6th, 2014. Uploaded to YouTube by user 'the beeb' on: Jan 13th, 2018. YouTube.
- ↑ 'edu "sketches 3d" on VINYL/DIGITAL STREAMING'. June 2nd, 2019. andrewtheproducer.com. Accessed: June 5th, 2019.
- ↑ edu "sketches 3d" on vinyl and digital. 2019. Kickstarter. Accessed: 5th June, 2019.
- ↑ Instagram Post. 2019. "Re-releasing for the first time digitally and on vinyl “sketches” my 2012 solo record under my nickname “edu.” Remixed/remastered. Link to kickstarter in bio."
- ↑ 'South By Southwest 2007'. (Uploaded: 2013). Tally Hall's Internet Show. Tally Hall. Vimeo.
- ↑ Tally Hall Twitter reply
- ↑ Collegian Interview. April 2008.