Andrew Ingkavet's work has been heard in concert halls, film, television, theater stages and even the United Nations. He is a former MTV-VJ for MTV-Asia and was a singer/songwriter for MMA Music (publishing).
His music has been described as "wondrously melodic, magical, and fantastical."
Highlights of work:
- Scored dozens of films including several independent features – Noelle debuts December 7, 2007.
- "Agent Cool Blue" - a 3 minute animated short on DVD released on millions of packages of Pfizer/Listerine's Agent Cool Blue. It hits a pharmacy near you this July 2006.
- A score for the animated short "Coqui" by Nelson Diaz won Best Traditional Animation at the 2005 Dusties Film Festival NYC.
- In 2004, Son of Semele Ensemble's production of Obie-award-winning playwright Matthew Maguire's "The Tower" garnered critical acclaim and awards and which the LA Times described Mr. Ingkavet's music as "precious". Backstage West said, "... it's Maguire's words, and the haunting original music by Andrew Ingkavet, that are the driving force here...And the profound nature of this layered work will not soon be forgotten by anyone who experiences it." ReviewPlays.com describes his work as "...an incredibly haunting musical design by Andrew Ingkavet...you have the makings of a play that has ‘winner’ written all over it."
Numerous shorts include "Donny & Clyde" by Casey Moulton and an award-winning short called "Phos" by Eric Chino Wong. Commercial work includes Little Tikes, Pfizer, American Express, Reebok, Timberland and MetLife among others. Ingkavet also provided music to award-winning Off-off Broadway shows "MotherSon", "Santa Claus is Coming Out" and the score to "Building Houses On the Moon," a touring production for young audiences. He is an original member of the critically acclaimed CityKids Repertory Theater Company as an actor and composer/musician creating the longstanding "Growing Up & Other Heroic Deeds" with playwright Jeffrey Solomon.
Ingkavet has a Bachelors of Music from New York University where he studied jazz with Joe Lovano, Gene Bertoncini and Michael Cochrane. He studied orchestration with Rudolph Palmer at Mannes College of Music, voice with Katie Agresta and continues to study composition with Conrad Cummings at Juilliard School of Music.
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