Meet Andrew Lipow

Today we’d like to introduce you to Andrew Lipow.

Hi Andrew, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself. 
My musical voyage began when I fell in love with the music of Jimi Hendrix in middle school. Guitar became my passion, and from my high school days until the Covid lockdown, I was always playing in at least one band. I became proficient in a number of genres, which helped me to find work as a professional guitarist in New York and Nashville. During recording sessions in Nashville, I learned how to produce music, mainly by looking over the engineer’s shoulders, and I began to look for work scoring to picture; I started getting placements of my original music in popular television shows and local filmmakers began reaching out to me to score their films. My wife and I moved to LA in 2021, and I am currently scoring indie features and shorts, as well as continuing to write songs and underscore for television. 

Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way? Looking back, would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Pursuing a career as a composer means you have to sacrifice and make compromises. The biggest struggle is finding the time to write consistently. In Nashville, I was lucky to enough to find regular work as a professional guitarist, but finding composing gigs in LA is a much harder task. I luckily teach music composition at a college in Los Angeles, which allows me to make my own hours and earn a consistent paycheck while I continue to network and compose as much as I can. 

Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
My music has been placed on shows like American Greed, RuPaul’s Drag Race, Love & Hip Hop Miami, Are You the One?, Forensic Files II, How It Really Happened, Very Scary People, and Celebrity True Crime Story. Since moving to LA, I have scored indie feature films and award-winning shorts while continuing to find work as a collaborator with other composers. I love to meet new collaborators and I am always willing to make myself available for coffee.

We’re always looking for the lessons that can be learned in any situation, including tragic ones like the Covid-19 crisis. Are there any lessons you’ve learned that you can share?
Don’t wait around for something to happen. If you want to pursue your dream, do it now. 

Contact Info:

• Website: andrewlipow.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/andrewlipow/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-lipow

Image Credits
Eden Lauren