Faculty

Amy Andersson is an award-winning concert conductor, producer and session conductor who has appeared internationally in over 22 countries, thrilling audiences with concerts, opera productions and live-to-film video game shows. Known for her expressive technique and deep musicality, she is the recipient of a 2021 Grammy in Best Classical Compendium, a BMI Impact Award, and Society of Composers and Lyricists Jury Award for Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, a live-to-film concert production she created and debuted at Lincoln Center. Appearances on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News, and press coverage in the Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal have led music critic Norman Lebrecht to call her “America’s most watched Symphony Orchestra Conductor.” 

In demand as both a teacher and educator, she has held appointments at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany, Brooklyn College/Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema (New York City) and is currently adjunct faculty in the USC Thornton Screen Scoring department. Andersson has taught summer courses at the Hollywood Music Workshop, in Baden, Austria and Pepperdine University in Malibu. In addition, she has led workshops and seminars with film composers at NYU Steinhardt, Society of Composers and Lyricists in NYC, and the Alliance for Women Film Composers in L.A. She continues to be a sought-after private conducting coach for composers around the world. 

In 2023, Andersson teamed with Meinart Animation Studios in Lithuania to co-executive produce director Daniel Kreizberg’s award-winning, animated short “Tahlequah the Whale: A Dance of Grief.” In 2024, she teamed with Mary Nittolo of The Studio (New York City), and Meinart Animation, to co-executive produce Kreizberg’s second, soon-to-be released film.