As composer/arranger, performer and recording artist, pianist, keyboard player, percussionist, educator and author, sound programmer, multimedia content developer and digital audio & MIDI specialist, Andy Wasserman draws on an astonishingly diverse range of experiences in the music industry. He earned his degree in Composition and Jazz Studies at the New England Conservatory of Music and has been involved in numerous activities as a full-time professional musician over the past 25 years. Wasserman is a native of Manhattan.

He studied piano with Anne Prior Dodge at the Metropolitan Music School as a youngster, and learned traps and orchestral percussion in elementary through junior high school which prepared him for admission and attendance at the High School of Music & Art in New York City as a mallet instrument and timpani player. His background in African and Afro-Cuban percussion comes from classes in the 1970's at Babatunde Olatunji's School of African Music and Dance in Harlem and private study with drummer Danny Barajanos. He was a private student of Yale University educator and jazz pianist Dwike Mitchell (of the Mitchell-Ruff Duo) for over 10 years, as well as working closely with renowned Jazz composer George Russell on and off for two decades.

Andy Wasserman is a popular arts-in-education curriculum specialist who has performed concerts and conducted seminars, clinics, artist-in-residence workshops and teacher-training in-service sessions for last 17 years throughout the United States. His recent university level programs for E-Mu Systems & KAT electronic instruments have had him teaching and performing at Berklee College of Music, North Texas State University, Delmar College at Corpus Christi, Julliard, New England Conservatory of Music, University of Georgia, Jersey City State College and the Percussive Arts Society International Conventions in Nashville (1996) and Los Angeles (1997). He work has been represented by the Young Audiences and Festival of Music agencies for grades K-12 in public, private and parochial schools. His original production "Making Music from Around the World" focuses on the music and cultures represented by percussion, string and wind instruments from countries in Asia, Africa and South America. Wasserman performs himself on over 30 instruments from around the world. His second show entitled "Instruments: Ancient to Future" showcases these same ethnic instruments alongside MIDI-based percussion controllers and digital sampling technology, illustrating the musical connections between acoustic and electronic mediums. He is the author of numerous reference and resource materials, and also specializes in healing through sound workshops for special needs audiences with disabilities. He has been contracted for appearances in over 1000 different sites reaching over 700,000 audience and workshop participants since 1979.

His technology-based digital audio and MIDI production studio TransMedia Sound & Music has enabled Wasserman to create and record original scores for video and TV, as well as digital mastering and in-house multimedia content development since 1987 for clients such as WABC-TV New York, CBS-TV, AT&T, Time-Life Music, Mastercard, Sanofi-Winthrop Pharmaceuticals, Organon, Castrol Motor Oil, QVC-TV Network, Digital Cable Radio, Prime Productions, Virtual Entertainment, Panasonic and Opcode Interactive.

Wasserman owns his own music publishing company "Andrew Roy Music" and has over 60 published original compositions that have been registered with BMI after being released on CD and cassette for broadcast on radio, TV, film and video. He had 2 recordings released in 1995 as sole composer, arranger and solo instrumentalist. The Pyramid Production Music Library released a CD of music for film and TV consisting of 26 of Andy's original compositions representing over 10 varied musical styles. High Harmony Records released "Kindred Spirits", a solo CD produced by Tommy West featuring Wasserman's original compositions, arranged and performed by him on grand piano, MIDI instruments, and electronic/acoustic percussion. Additionally, his expertise in sound design, sound effects and digital sample/synthesizer programming has been utilized by artists such as guitarist Al DiMeola and for the 'Starfish' and 'Sonic Architecture' Sound Libraries.

Two 1997 collaborative CD releases include compositions, performances, programming and audio engineering by Wasserman on the contemporary Gospel-Jazz "Before We Ask" (Saints and Friends Fellowship Choir) and Worldbeat/Jazz oriented "Universal Beat," (Junglewire) the self-entitled album of the digital music duo of Wasserman and percussionist Mario DeCiutiis (visit their website: http://www.junglewire.com). He is currently working on a double CD set of music for film and TV for the BMG All-Star Music series entitled "Andy Wasserman plays solo piano." This solo piano CD was recorded in November, 1997 at the renowned Clinton Recording Studio in New York City.

Wasserman is a long-standing member of American Federation of Musicians Local 802, New York City. He has performed in nightclub and concert venues in the U.S. and Europe since 1971, and has composed and performed many musical accompaniments live and on tape for dancers in the Jazz, Tap, African, Modern and Improvisational idioms for premier ensembles that include the Copasetics, Jane Goldberg, Brenda Buffalino, as well as his wife, Dorothy Wasserman. He recently ended a steady 9-year weekend engagement as solo jazz pianist at the prestigious United Nations Plaza Park Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan.

Andy Wasserman is also currently involved in curriculum text publishing. He has been working closely with NEA Jazz master, MacArthur 'genius' grant recipient and Guggenheim Fellow George Russell since 1980 on the revision of Russell's world-renowned theoretical classic "The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization" as both editor, notation copyist and desktop publishing layout artist. Wasserman is currently one of only a few music educators sanctioned by Mr. Russell as qualified to teach the Lydian Chromatic Concept in its up-to-date entirety. Andy is currently conducting research for the draft of his own book, entitled "The Magnetic Essence of Music" and is the past editor of "Music and MacData" MIDI magazine. He was a MIDI Forum Guest Expert of the Month on Compuserve and has lectured on-line written articles for a number of computer SIG organizations on MIDI and digital audio.