Andrea Stolpe
Adjunct Assistant Professor
- Program:Popular Music
- Division:Contemporary Music
- Expertise:Songwriting
Biography
Andrea Stolpe is a Los Angeles-based songwriter, author, performing artist and educator. She has worked as a staff writer for EMI, Almo-Irving, and Universal Music Publishing, with songs recorded by such artists as Faith Hill, Julianne Hough, Daniel Lee Martin, Jimmy Wayne, and others.
Her book, Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling, offers songwriters a practical approach to lyric writing according to each writer’s unique voice, and the ability to finish songs with greater ease and consistency.
Andrea teaches Songwriting at the University of California’s Thornton School of Music, and is the author and instructor of Berklee College of Music’s online course “Commercial Songwriting Techniques.” For the past 10 years Andrea has taught melody, harmony, and lyric writing courses for Berklee Online.
She continues to tour and promote her solo release, Breaking Even, and serve as a guest clinician nationally and abroad. Andrea enjoys working to develop writers part of SonicArt Productions, an artist development company established by her husband, recording engineer Jan Stolpe.
Professional experience
Career Highlights:
- “Behind the Songs,” NBC special performance with Faith Hill (2006)
- “Breaking Even”, (2007) SonicArt Records
Honors, Awards & Competitions:
- SESAC Award 1997
- ASCAP Award 1998
Music Festivals:
- Grammy Camp, Los Angeles, CA
- Recording Academy of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Berklee College of Music, Boston, MA
- Speech Level Singing Camp, Los Angeles, CA
- Swannanoa Gathering, Asheville, NC
- MN Songwriter’s Association, Minneapolis, MN
Recordings:
- Faith Hill
Album: Fireflies, (2005) Warner Bros.
Song: You Stay With Me
Writer(s): Andrea Stolpe/John Kennedy - Julianne Hough
Album: Julianne Hough, (2008) Mercury Nashville
Song: I’d Just Be With You
Writer(s): Andrea Stolpe/John Kennedy - Daniel Lee Martin
Album: All That I Am, (2003) Chin Music
Songs: The Closest Thing
All That I Am
Writer(s): Andrea StolpeAlbum: On My Way to You (2007) Chin Music
Songs: Just What You Did
That’s What God Made Rivers For
Writer(s): Andrea Stolpe - Andrea Stolpe
Album: Breaking Even, (2007) SonicArt Records
Writer(s): Andrea Stolpe
Jan Teddy - Film: School of Seduction (2007) Lions Gate Home Ent. UK Ltd
- Song: Lost
Writer(s): Andrea Stolpe/Stephen Robson
Publications:
- Stolpe, Andrea (2007). Popular Lyric Writing: 10 Steps to Effective Storytelling, Berklee Press
- The Career Songwriter, Berkleemusic.com weekly web blog
Academic degrees
- BM, Berklee College of Music, 1998
Studied with:
- Bob Winter
- Pat Pattison