Amy Andersson

Amy Andersson is an award-winning concert conductor, producer and session conductor who has appeared internationally in over twenty-two countries, thrilling audiences with concerts, opera productions and live-to-film video game shows. Known for her expressive technique and deep musicality, she is a recipient of a 2021 Grammy in Best Classical Compendium, a BMI Impact Award and Society of Composers and Lyricists Jury Award for Women Warriors: The Voices of Change, a live-to-film concert production she created and debuted at Lincoln Center. Appearances on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, CBS Morning News, CBS Evening News and press coverage in the Huffington Post and Wall Street Journal have led music critic Norman Lebrecht to call her “America’s most watched Symphony Orchestra Conductor.”
In demand as both teacher and educator, she has held faculty appointments at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, Germany, Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema/Brooklyn College NYC, and is currently Adjunct in the Screen Scoring Department at USC Thornton. Andersson has taught summer courses at the Hollywood Music Workshop, in Baden, Austria and Pepperdine University in Malibu. In addition, she has led workshops and seminars with film composers at NYU Steinhardt, Society of Composers and Lyricists in NYC, and the Alliance for Women Film Composers in L.A. She continues to be a sought after private conducting coach for composers and session conductors around the world.
In 2023 Andersson teamed with Meinart Animation Studios in Lithuania to co executive produce director Daniel Kreizberg’s award-winning, animated short Tahlequah the Whale: A Dance of Grief. In 2024 she teamed with Mary Nittolo of The Studio (New York City), and Meinart Animation, to co executive produce Kreizberg’s second, soon-to-be released film.