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Los Angeles based composer Andrew Scott Bell grew up in Horseheads, New York where he found himself taking dance, ballet, and piano lessons. Through piano, Bell began writing his own pieces of music. “I would sit at the piano and come up with a movie,” he says. “I’ve just always wanted to be part of storytelling, and music is the way I approach that.”
Life eventually took him to Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia, where he studied classical orchestration, music theory, and composition. Since '09, Andrew has scored nearly 100 projects for film and TV. In 2015, he moved to Los Angeles where he scored Rocket, a short film that won him a Student Academy Award the following year.
Since then, he has scored projects like NBC’s Home Sweet Home by Emmy Award Winner Ava DuVernay, Powder Pup a wonderful family adventure film from LIONSGATE, the Lifetime Original action adventure thriller Psycho Storm Chaser, and the viral smash hits Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 1 and 2.
Andrew's compositional style has been described as an amalgamation of Bernard Herrmann and Hans Zimmer: a dynamic fusion of neo-romantic harmonies and the power of modern film scoring techniques. A multi-instrumentalist, Andrew records his own violin, cello, trumpet, and clarinet parts layering them dozens of times to bring a visceral human connection to his music.
Andrew was commissioned to write an opera based on Nobel Peace Prize winning author Elie Wiesel's award winning play, The Trial of God, which premiered in November, 2021.
QUOTES:
"Our meeting was fate. [Andrew's] work was excellent! Our collaboration will be long remembered by me. Thanks for all!"
– Ava DuVernay, Creator - Home Sweet Home
“Andrew Scott Bell has created a special world of horror and terror, one that is in the top tier of horror film scores since 2000. It is a magical time for independent horror films and horror film scores, and Bell’s work on Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey 2 will be a high-water (or high-blood) mark in the genre.”
– Erik Heine, Film Score Monthly
"[Andrew is] a composer that not only can elevate, enhance, and fully support a project, but a composer that is also in short able to write a good tune."
– Jon Mansell, Movie Music International
“Andrew is a devilishly handsome composer.”
– Anonymous, but definitely not written by himself