Biography

Seattle-native and multi-Instrumentalist, Composer, Orchestrator, and Violinist, Andrew Joslyn is a contributing songwriter and composer on Macklemore & Ryan Lewis's 4x Grammy award winning album, "The Heist", and contributed to their most recent project, "This Unruly Mess I've Made," has performed on The Grammy Awards, The American Music Awards and The Tonight Show, toured with folk legend Judy Collins, and has had his work performed by ensembles nationwide. His formative years were spent studying classical music. While studying music composition in college, however, Andrew broke from the regimented routine of his classical training and delved into his own exploration of contemporary music ranging from rock, folk, world, hip-hop, film and electronic. Now a seasoned performer, composer, and film scorer and, in addition to his work with Macklemore, has worked with some of the most iconic Northwest musicians and beyond, including David Bazan (Pedro the Lion), Mark Lanegan (Queens of the Stone Age), Duff McKagan (Guns N Roses), Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), Jeremy Enigk (Sunny Day Real Estate), Tom Chaplin (Keane), Shelby Earl, Kygo, Odesza, Audra Boo (Fly Moon Royalty), Will Jordan, Billy McCarthy (Augustines), Eric Anderson (Cataldo), and the Seattle Rock Orchestra.

Andrew's first solo CD, a stunning collection of genre bending, Orchestral Pop called, Awake at the Bottom of the Ocean, was released in 2017 and is garnering rave reviews, including Paste, Yahoo Music, Huffington Post, Seattle Weekly, Nada Mucho, SMI and Afropunk. His music has been featured on KEXP, and on NPR.
- IMDb mini biography by: Kaytea Moreno Elst