Andrew Gerle received his degree in music from Yale University (magna cum laude, with distinction).
Mr. Gerle began his compositional studies at Yale under the guidance of composers
Michael Tenzer and Jan Radzynski. His first two scores, full incidental music
for the plays MARAT/SADE and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,
received full productions at Yale. Subsequent works for the theatre include
KEPLER (a finalist for the prestigious Richard Rodgers Award
for new music theatre writing); BRIGHTER THINGS, based on the
stories of John Cheever; THE GIFT (book and lyrics by Maryrose
Wood, also a Rodgers Award finalist); and THE TUTOR (also with
Ms. Wood), now an unprecedented three-time winner of the Rodgers Award. Written
while he and Ms. Wood were writers-in-residence at the Eugene O'Neill Music
Theatre Conference, THE TUTOR recently had its New York workshop premiere starring
Anthony Rapp (RENT), and has been featured as part of the Public Theatre's New
Works Now! Festival and the Lincoln Center Songbook series. He and Ms. Wood
also wrote a musical short film, LOVE, MOM, starring Tonya
Pinkins and directed by Ted Sperling, which recently won a Director's Choice
Award at the Black Maria Film Festival.
With lyricist Eddie Sugarman, he has written a musical adaptation of the Frank
Capra classic, MEET JOHN DOE, which recently had a sold-out,
critically-acclaimed run as part of the New York Music Theatre Festival. Andrew
is also a composer of concert and dance music, recently collaborating with choreographer
Nicole Roberson for a piece for the dance festival Sounds of the City at the
Pantheon Theater in New York. Last year, he collaborated with esteemed American
poet and opera librettist Kenward Elmslie (MISS JULIE, THE SEAGULL, LIZZIE BORDEN)
on a song for the off-Broadway revue, LINGOLAND.
While at Yale, Andrew studied piano with internationally-acclaimed pianist Peter
Frankel, and was the winner of both the Yale Symphony competition and the National
Symphony Orchestra Young Artists' competition, appearing as piano soloist with
both orchestras. During this time, Andrew was also one of a handful of young
artists invited to play for maestro Mstislav Rostropovich at the Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C. Andrew has been heard on programs for National Public Radio
and Television, and has been invited to perform with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra and the Seoul (Korea) Philharmonic, which he also guest-conducted
in a series of sold-out concerts, becoming one of the youngest conductors ever
to direct a major international symphony.
Mr. Gerle's symphonic Broadway orchestrations have been performed by orchestras
across the U.S. He was commissioned by the Baltimore Symphony to create their
Gershwin Centennial Celebration, and he made his Boston Pops debut with an arrangement
for singer Judy Kaye. He has served as music director for numerous Off-Broadway,
touring, and regional productions in the U.S. and abroad, and has recently begun
work orchestrating and arranging a CD of the music of Maltby and Shire for soprano
Christa Justus.
www.andrewgerle.com