Andrew Fox
Orchestrator
Recent orchestrations/arrangements include Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Exploring the Orchestra, Alex Newell’s performance of “My Strongest Suit” for AIDSWALK 2021, Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s “Schools Out” broadcast with Justin Roberts, and Matthew Hardy’s full-length musical Virtuoso, which premiered at Teatr Muzyczny in Fall 2020.
Andrew was the Lead Orchestrator (and Co-Producer) for Bite-Sized Broadway: A Mini-Musical Podcast Season One, which was a finalist in two categories for 2020’s Discover Pods Awards: People’s Choice and Best Music Podcast as well as a 2021 Webby Awards Honoree.
Andrew generated orchestrations for the 10th Anniversary Gala Concert Starkid: Homecoming featuring Darren Criss, Carlos Valdes, and AJ Holmes. Past theatrical orchestrations include grammy-nominee Justin Roberts' Hansel and Gretel, Starkid's Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier, Foreverman (Winner 2012 NYMF Awards for Excellence, Outstanding Orchestration), and more. In response to the hardships visited on youth theater programs by COVID-19, he worked with Beat by Beat Press to orchestrate three new musicals for remote/hybrid performance by youth groups. He has also contributed orchestrations to the children's musicals Sally Sells Seashells (And You Can, Too!), Space Pirates, It's Easy!, and Tut, Tut!, as well as arrangements for countless cabaret and concert acts in the NYC area.
Songwriter
Andrew Fox writes musicals and stuff! Check out the “Musicals” tab on this website for examples.
In 2020, he and Jamil Ellis were commissioned to write The Last Magic Negro, or Chad’s Great Awakening ✊🏻, a short musical that premiered on Bite-Sized Broadway’s inaugural season.
His latest musical, Slam Frank, is currently being developed by Stidley Productions.
He also writes big rock bangers sometimes.
Andrew is a composer in the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Songwriting Workshop. Andrew's children's musical, Caveman 2.0 (co-written with Emmy-winner Sherry Coben and Twisted lyricist Kaley McMahon) received its World Premiere in May 2018 at Artistree Performing Arts. His songs from musicals in development and cabaret stand-alones have been performed throughout New York, and his short musical Pack Rat (written with lyricist Brett Boles) was selected by Emerson College for their Developmental Lab Series. He also served as the songwriter and pianist for Jamil Ellis’s The Magical Negro Speaks at NY Fringe.
Producer/Composer
Producer (and sometimes arranger) of the Sondheim in the Style of… collaborative series, envisioning Sondheim classics in styles like 1980’s British Synthpop, 1990s J-Pop, and 2000s Pop-Punk and featuring Eleri Ward.
He also, uh, did this thing, I guess? Look, 2020 was a weird year for all of us.
In Spring 2019, the Manhattan Four String Quartet toured China with Andrew’s reimagining of the traditional Chinese folk song “Mo Li Hua”.
In addition to having orchestrated Twisted, he also produced its original cast recording (which reached #63 on the iTunes Top 100) and the Twisted: Twisted bonus record. (Click here for the Hypable.com review of Twisted: Twisted.) Andrew also co-produced the original cast recording for Hansel and Gretel.
Andrew produced Tha Los' (AKA Carlos Valdes) sophomore EP, Night Off. As House Arranger and Artistic Director for Stacks of Wax Production from 2012-2016, Andrew produced and arranged for artists across the globe in many genres. And he made a disco orchestration of "Call Me Maybe".
Film work includes original scoring for Mattson Tomlin’s Dream Lover, arrangements & music production for Thunderstruck: An AC/DC Movie Musical, assistant scoring for The Anonymous People, original songs for Solomon Grundy: Born on a Monday, arrangements for the webseries Kef Date, and contributions to several award-winning shorts.
Vocal Coach and Teaching Artist
Andrew is a vocal coach and music director specializing in popular and contemporary repertoire - rock, pop, rap, and more. In addition to his private practice, he was the lead teacher and co-designer for the Contemporary Vocals/Pop Star! program at AMDA NY for nearly a decade and was a founding faculty member and curriculum designer for Purchase College's Summer Songwriting, Creative Vocal Lab, and Vocal Intensive programs.
Internationally, Andrew is Curriculum Designer and Teaching Consultant for Universal Mind 音乐剧, a company that provides musical theater training and experience to young people in Mainland China. He has taught extensively throughout Mainland China, providing musical theater and vocal arranging workshops in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Zhengzhou. He founded Urban Nomad, Shanghai’s first improvisational a cappella ensemble, and co-founded Nvak Foundation, an innovative international music education program sponsored by Atlantic Records. In his three years with Nvak as Lead Teacher and Curriculum Designer, Andrew saw his students collaborate with major recording artists - including Ben Moody, Sebu Simonian, and Serj Tankian - and perform their original songs on Armenian Late Night Television. Nvak was also the subject of a documentary profile by Al-Jazeera English.
Andrew is one of the few musical theater performance coaches in New York who also has extensive vocal producing experience in the pop world, allowing his students a competitive edge of authenticity when handling pop, rock, and r&b repertoire. He is also experienced in cross-cultural education.
Copyist and Transcriptionist
Oh! Almost forgot: every now and then Andrew also does music engraving, transcription, and copyist gigs. Clients have included Stephen Schwartz, Steven Van Zandt & Darlene Love, Starkid, and Beat by Beat Press; as well as the off-Broadway shows Disenchanted: Bitches of the Kingdom and The City Club. Got a demo or orchestration you made in Logic/Protools that you need converted to sheet music? He does that.
Awards
2012 NYMF Awards for Excellence, Outstanding Orchestration
Software
Mainstage, Logic X, Sibelius Ultimate