Andrew Hewitt (born 28 March 1976) is an English composer based in Los Angeles.

Training

Hewitt was classically trained from childhood as a pianist and tenor singer. He won music scholarships to the Westminster Abbey Choir, Uppingham School, the National Youth Music Theatre, St John's College, Cambridge, and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Before university, he toured chorally worldwide, and after graduation in 2000, he continued to perform in concerts, global tours, and CD recordings for such classical groups as John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi Choir, Robert King's The King's Consort, The John Rutter Singers, Synergy, Opera Rara, the London Voices, and Metro Voices. These performances covered every style, from contemporary premieres to session choirs and baroque, classical, and avant-garde works.

At Abbey Road and Air Studios he performed on many film scores for such conductors as John Williams and Howard Shore, including The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Pirates of the Caribbean.

Film scoring

Hewitt is an associate member of PRS for Music and recently accepted invitations to become a member of both the World Soundtrack Academy and BAFTA. Combining a lifelong passion for film with extensive classical training, recording, and worldwide concert experience, he orchestrates and conducts all his scores, which he fuses with electronic textures at his studio.

Awards and nominations

• BAFTA Nomination as Best New Composer for Film and TV

Motion pictures

• We Have Always Lived in the Castle – dir Stacie Passon
• Old Boys – dir Toby Macdonald, prod Luke Morris
• A Crooked Somebody – dir Trevor White, starring Ed Harris, Rich Sommer
• The Divide – dir Katharine Round, featuring Kwame Anthony Appiah, Noam Chomsky, Kate Pickett, Richard Wilkinson
• Mojave – dir Bill Monahan, starring Garrett Hedlund, Oscar Isaac, Mark Wahlberg
• The Stanford Prison Experiment – dir Kyle Alvarez, starring Michael Angarano, Ezra Miller
• Bill – dir Richard Bracewell, starring Ben Willbond, Laurence Rickard
• The Double – dir Richard Ayoade, starring Jesse Eisenberg & Mia Wasikowska
• The Sea – dir Stephen Brown, starring Ciarán Hinds, violin soloist Hilary Hahn
• The Brass Teapot – dir Ramaa Mosley, starring Juno Temple & Michael Angarano
• Four Horsemen – dir Ross Ashcroft, Motherlode, with Noam Chomsky
• Submarine – dir Richard Ayoade, Warp Films, starring Sally Hawkins, prod Ben Stiller
• Cuckoo – dir Richard Bracewell, Punk Cinema, starring Richard E. Grant

Television series

• Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies – dir Sean Grundy, TV movie, Pioneer
• Garth Marenghi's Darkplace – dir Richard Ayoade, Avalon
• Man to Man with Dean Learner – dir Richard Ayoade, Avalon
• Catastrophe – Discovery US, Pioneer, C4
• Extreme Hotels – Pioneer, Travel
• National Geographic – three documentaries
• The Stuarts – BBC
• Whatever Happened to Harry Hill?
• Globe Trekker
• Parking Tribunal – BBC
• Parasomnias – BBC
• Krystal Klairvoyant