Aaron Gandy
Composer
Broadway/NYC credits: THE LION KING, URINETOWN, JUST JIM DALE (Roundabout and London’s West End, and the upcoming Audible Books release). Off Broadway: ROMEO & BERNADETTE, TURTLE ON A FENCE POST, THE SHAGGS at Playwrights Horizons, and DORA THE EXPLORER LIVE! AT RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL. Composer credits: THE CRINOLYNNS, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, ACEY DEUCEY, HUXLEY ANN, LOVE (r)EVOLUTION, and SAMANTHA SINGLE-HANDED. Recording credits: The Shaggs (Yellow Sound Label), Through the Years, Jule Styne in Hollywood, Fine and Dandy (PS Classics), Busker Alley starring Glen Close, The Musicality of Vincent Youmans featuring Sutton Foster and Norm Lewis on Jay Records, and A Band Called Honalee debut album. Concert appearances: Resident Pops Conductor for The South Shore Symphony (Long Island) where he has conducted for Kelli O’Hara, Matthew Morrison, Judy Collins, Laura Benanti, and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Other conducting credits: WEST SIDE STORY, CAROUSEL, and salutes to Jerry Herman, Marvin Hamlisch, and Stephen Sondheim. Ongoing concert acts include The New York Tenors’ current international tour, MY FAIR LADY in concert at the Milwaukee and North Carolina Symphonies, and producer/music director for A Band Called Honalee (www.abandcalledhonalee), now in its tenth year of touring nationally. Other appearances include The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center with Jerry Hadley, Carnegie Hall with Patti LuPone, The Paley Center for Media with Elaine Stritch, Chicago Humanities Festival with Christine Ebersole and Symphony Space. A specialist in restoring vintage musicals, his current restorations include Rodgers & Hart’s SPRING IS HERE, Vincent Youmans’s HIT THE DECK and GREAT DAY! and WALK WITH MUSIC by Hoagy Carmichael and Johnny Mercer. Mr. Gandy earned a BM in Music Theatre from Florida State University’s School of Music, and a Masters of Science in Music Technology from Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis.