Biography

Winner of the Richard Rodgers Award, the American Theatre Wing's Jonathan Larson Award, and the Edgerton Award as composer/co-lyricist of the musical, "The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea", Andrew Chukerman works extensively in film, television, theatre, and concert work, as a composer, orchestrator, music director, and keyboardist.

Andrew's keyboard work is credited on Rod Stewart's series of multi-platinum, Grammy-winning standards albums, "The Great American Songbook, Vol. 1-3", with combined sales of over 12 million units. Having made his Carnegie Hall debut in 2000 as a composer and pianist with the New York Pops Orchestra for his work, "My Only Son," Andrew can also be heard as arranger and keyboardist on Carly Simon's standards album, "Moonlight Serenade." As a keyboardist/pianist he's played for such diverse award-winning artists as Stevie Wonder, Rod Stewart, Reba McEntire, Carole King, P!nk, Al Jarreau, Stephanie Mills, Bette Midler, Elvis Costello, and David Foster amongst many others.

Andrew's score to Le Chase (2006) received the 2006 "Best Score" Grand Prize at the Rhode Island International Film Festival, and he's worked on such hit primetime network TV series as Westworld (2016), Glee (2009), Frasier (1993), Murphy Brown (1988), Charmed (1998), and The Wonder Years (1988) amongst many others. Most recently, Andrew worked on Rules Don't Apply (2016) written, directed, and starring Warren Beatty, and he was hired to do all of the historical period music research for the well-received feature film, Tombstone (1993) while still in music school.

In addition to his above-referenced Carnegie Hall performance, Andrew's live orchestral commissions include "Hallelujah: A Soulful Celebration" for the Atlanta Symphony (broadcast nationally on PBS), as well as an extensive 15-minute medley in 2015 honoring jazz legend Ramsey Lewis for the Ravinia Festival in celebration of his 80th birthday.

Originally from Chicago, Andrew possessed perfect pitch at the age of four, and was recommended to study jazz and improvisational piano with the highly-esteemed Lucille Gould. Post-secondary studies brought him to Los Angeles where he was a music major at Occidental College, completed two full-time programs at the Grove School of Music in Composing, Arranging, and Film Scoring, as well as selected for two fellowships in film scoring with both ASCAP and BMI.

Andrew is a music branch member of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS), the Recording Academy (NARAS), ASCAP, the American Federation of Musicians (AFM), and the Screen Actors Guild (SAG).
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