Andie Heyer

BA, BA, MA Andreas Heyer

Künstlername: Andie Heyer
Ort: 5071 Wals (bei Salzburg)
Land: Österreich
Telefon 1: +43 (0)699 181 50 130
E-Mail: andie(at)andieheyer.com
Web: www.andieheyer.com
Link: https://www.musikergilde.at/mitglied/andie_heyer.htm

Salzburg/Austrian based composer, bassist, orchestrator.

Andreas 'Andie' Heyer, born November 16th 1984 in Salzburg/Austria.
At the age of 9 he got his first classical piano education in Salzburg. Two years later he discovered the bass guitar and it was 'love at first sight'. At this time he started getting interested in jazz, contemporary, film music and classical composition.

In 2000, at the age of 15 he successfully entered at Anton Bruckner University of Music in Linz and studied the 'Electric Bass' (IGP) at the jazz faculty under Helmut Schoenleitner.
He participated at workshops/masterclasses with world class bassplayers such as: Gerald Veasley (USA), Rich Brown (CAN), Kai Eckhard de Camargo (D/USA) and indian music workshops (Pt. Suresh Talwalkar).
In 2003 he produced his first solo bass CD "Bass4You" which got excellent critics by renowned german music magazines (Gitarre & Bass, Bassprofessor).
In 2005 he graduated with destinctions (Bachelor of Arts).

In 2005 he entered at Mozarteum University of Music in Salzburg to study classical/contemporary 'Composition' with Prof. Reinhard Febel (D).
He had the chance to meet and get lessons (masterclasses) by some of the world's most renowned contemporary composers such as: Helmut Lachenmann (D), Steve Reich (USA), Renato Miani (IT), Georges Aperghis (GR/FR), Johannes Maria Staud (AT), Beat Furrer (CH), Toshio Hosokawa (JP), Matthias Pintscher (D), just to mention a few.
He also took lessons and masterclasses in 'Film Scoring' (Salzburg 'Media Lab' and Munich, Germany).
In 2006 he got two comissions during the international 'Mozart:2006 Festival' (chamber music piece at Summer Academy, and live improvisation of an experimental film).
In 2007 the Mozarteum Orchestra performed his large orchestra piece 'ERIS' conducted by Dennis Russell-Davies.
In 2008 he graduated in 'Composition' with destinctions (B.A.) and continued at Mozarteum Salzburg with Master studies in 'Music Theory' (composition, orchestration, film music and conducting).

In 2009 he colaborated with famous indian sarod player Pt. Ranajit Sengupta and performed his 'Jugalbandhi' project at Oval/Europark (Austria).

He twice received the 'scholarship of achievment' from University Mozarteum and was award winner of two composition competitions (Munich and Vienna). His pieces got published (Doblinger Verlag, UE, Vogt&Fritz "Münchner Klavierbuch") and got released a year later.
In 2011 he successfully completed his Master studies (M.A.) at Mozarteum Salzburg. In 2012 he studied at the FMI (Film Music Institute, Hollywood) 'The Art of Orchestration for Film & TV" with famous orchestrator Steven Scott Smalley (Jerry Goldsmith, Alan Silvestri, Danny Elfman, David Newman, Basil Poledouris, etc.).
Since 2012 he mainly works as a freelancing composer, musician and orchestrator/arranger.