Andy Hill

Andy Hill is a thirty-five year veteran of the film and television music industry. His career includes his tenure as vice-president of music production for Walt Disney Pictures from 1988-97, the period of the Disney Renaissance, during which time he oversaw music for films which earned nine Academy Awards in music categories. Subsequently, as an independent music supervisor and producer in the Todd-AO-Soundeluxe stable, he received a Grammy Award for Sony’s The Adventures of Elmo In Grouchland. Andy’s move into education in 2006, after twenty years in Hollywood was a natural outgrowth of his passion for identifying, developing and mentoring emerging talent. He founded the world’s first M.F.A. degree program in film scoring at Columbia College Chicago and directed it for five years before accepting a similar role in the launch of the masters program in film and game scoring at Berklee’s new international campus in Valencia, Spain. His next international moves carried him to Belgium, Ireland and, after a stint in Nashville, to Sofia, Bulgaria, where he co-founded and directed the Film Scoring Academy of Europe for six years. All three of Andy’s previous programs have achieved global ranking. He is also the author of an acclaimed text for media composers, Scoring the Screen: The Secret Language of Music for Film and Contemporary Media, published initially in 2017 by Hal Leonard and due out in its second edition from Bloomsbury Academic in May 2026. Andy will carry out his duties as Executive Dean for Creative Arts at Strayer University from his base in Atlanta, Georgia.