WELCOME
to the website of Andrew Friedrichs,
a Colorado Springs-based composer whose custom arrangements, compositions, and original songs convey a creative fusion of styles and colors accessible to a wide audience. His catalog primarily features handpicked sacred arrangements that have been tested at his own church of 1000+ and provide a fresh take on familiar hymns that congregations love to sing.
In addition to church music, you’ll find commissioned works and award winning compositions, such as “Spark,” winner of the 2021 New Horizons International Music Association Composition Competition.
to the website of Andrew Friedrichs,
a Colorado Springs-based composer whose custom arrangements, compositions, and original songs convey a creative fusion of styles and colors accessible to a wide audience. His catalog primarily features handpicked sacred arrangements that have been tested at his own church of 1000+ and provide a fresh take on familiar hymns that congregations love to sing.
In addition to church music, you’ll find commissioned works and award winning compositions, such as “Spark,” winner of the 2021 New Horizons International Music Association Composition Competition.
Andrew Friedrichs (DMA & MM University of Miami; BM Eastman School of Music) maintains an active professional life as a composer, arranger, and trombonist in Colorado Springs. As Associate Music Director at Village Seven Presbyterian Church, Andrew regularly composes and arranges for the church’s many musical ensembles including orchestra, praise band, and choir. His catalog of works includes pieces for orchestra, wind ensemble, choir, jazz ensemble, and film as well as for chamber ensemble, solo works, and original songs. His compositional style is a colorful blend of various elements from the classical, jazz and contemporary idioms. His compositions have been recorded by the Frost Wind Ensemble and the Frost Concert Jazz Band and have been performed by the Frost Trombone Choir as well as chamber ensembles from the University of Miami and the Eastman School of Music. An accomplished trombonist, Andrew has won professional auditions for both the U.S. Army “Pershing’s Own” Ceremonial Band and the Air Force “Heritage Band of America.” He is a previous member of the Florida Grand Opera and the Palm Beach Symphony and has subbed with orchestras throughout Florida and Colorado. His doctoral paper entitled “Suggestions for Incorporating Entrepreneurship Education in the Classical Brass Performance Studio” offers guidelines for adopting entrepreneurship education best practices in the music education realm. Andrew teaches music at the Colorado Springs Conservatory and the Pikes Peak Community College and enjoys family life with his wife, Nina, son, Jackson, and dog, Wally.
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"Spark is a wonderful new composition from composer Andrew Friedrichs that is immediately catchy to the ear. With an accessible melody and creative rhythms, Mr. Friedrichs’ composition paints a wonderful array of colors and energy in this work for concert band"
"I really enjoyed his creative approach to big band."
