Andrew Rickey

Andrew Rickey is a composer and multi-instrumentalist from Voorhees, New Jersey, with a background in musical theatre. He is a vocalist and plays both piano and clarinet. He has performed with All South Jersey Chorus, NJ All-State Mixed Chorus, and NAfME All-Eastern Honors Mixed Chorus, and attended Brevard Music Center High School Classical Voice Summer Institute. As a member of his high school’s symphonic band and honors wind ensemble, he has played Bb clarinet. He has also accompanied his school’s orchestra, honors wind ensemble, and treble choir on piano. He has performed in over 25 musicals and served as both lead and student vocal director. While he loves performing, he realized during his sophomore year in high school that his passion for music derives from its construction, not its replication, and his path bent toward composition. He began composing original pieces at that time and attended the Boston Conservatory at Berklee High School Composition Intensive the summer prior to senior year. He recently finished composing a new anthem for his high school, and he regularly improvises new compositions on piano. 

Andrew is thrilled to be joining the screen scoring community at Steinhardt. His ultimate goal is to score for film, television, and commercials with a particular interest towards the horror, thriller, and indie genres, whose styles, lack of creative limitations, and emphasis on the psychological effects of music intrigue him greatly. He would like to push the boundaries of sound that an orchestra can produce. In addition to screen scoring, he aspires to write the music and orchestration for an original musical, for theatre has always been a major artistic inspiration for him and represents a synthesis of so many art forms, like music, all working together to share a message. That is the through line of his goals and plans; he wants to use composition as a tool to provide audience members, whether they reside in a Broadway, movie, or home theater, a story greater than the sum of its parts.