Difference between revisions of "Andrew Horowitz"

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.<ref name="LMIRA05">[https://web.archive.org/web/20110805020324/http://sitemaker.umich.edu/livingmusic/browse_interviews&findAll=true&mode=single&recordID=000000000000000000000000000000000000000000322294&nextMode=list Living Music interview with Rob and Andrew, circa 2005.]</ref> 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.<ref name=andrewtheproducer>[https://andrewtheproducer.com/bio Andrew Horowitz Bio. Accessed 5th June, 2019.]</ref>

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 (Song)|Good Day]] and in 2004, Andrew won the BMI John Lennon Songwriting Scholarship award for $10,000 because of the song.<ref name="PRAP292005">[https://www.pingry.org/uploaded/2016_Our_Community/Students/Publications/Pingry_Record/record-apr292005.pdf The Pingry Record. April 29th 2005. PDF.]</ref>

In 2005 Andrew graduated from the University of Michigan with a double degree in Music Composition and English Language and Literature.<ref name=andrewtheproducer>[https://andrewtheproducer.com/bio Andrew Horowitz Bio. Accessed 5th June, 2019.]</ref>

 

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.

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.<ref>[https://www.michigandaily.com/uncategorized/my-own-words-making-it-big/ In My Own Words: Making it Big by Andrew Horowitz, February 16th, 2006]</ref>

From early 2017 to early 2018, Horowitz has been credited on working with artists like Jidenna and Livia Blanc.<ref>[https://andrewtheproducer.com/ Andrew's production website.]</ref>

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.

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.<ref>[https://adhorowi.bandcamp.com/ Cassette Tape 1. Bandcamp.]</ref>

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]].<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/gregorybrothers/videos/vl.1792386854323098/10152283857644284/?type=1 'Minor Rainbow Connection'. The Gregory Brothers. April 6th, 2014. Facebook Video.]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt_ONH-kihA '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.]</ref>

* Andrew almost got arrested once in 2007.

* 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.