Andy Hill (music supervisor)
Andy Hill (born 1951) is an American music supervisor, record producer, and music educator.
Biography
Andy Hill was born in Chicago and educated at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. From 1987-1996, he served as vice-president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures, overseeing music production on a roster of films which included The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, and Sister Act, and working closely with composers and songwriters such as Alan Menken and Hans Zimmer. Films for which Hill supervised music under the aegis of the Disney music department and its acclaimed music chief, Chris Montan, have earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. Subsequent to his term at Disney, Hill opened Andy Hill Film + Music under the auspices of Modern Music and supervised projects which included Message In A Bottle, Ed Wood, James and the Giant Peach and Happy Feet, winning a Grammy Award in 2000 as producer of the Best MusicAL Album for Children for Elmo In Grouchland.
Since September 2006, Hill has directed the graduate program in Music Composition for the Screen at Columbia College Chicago. His students have earned praise from the industry and found work with such notable composers as John Powell, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Johnny Klimek, and Javier Navarrete. As A.W. Hill, Hill has written three novels, Nowhere-Land'',The Last Days of Madame Rey, andEnoch's Portal, as well as a screenplay based on the life of Nikola Tesla, and is currently at work on a film music study entitledScoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Film Music''.