ANDREW EMIL

Andrew Emil // Change Request

A preeminent artist of Chicago's 3rd wave, Andrew Emil is one of house music’s most staunch stalwarts. A concert-trained percussionist since age 11, he earned a chair in his native Kansas City Symphony before eventually moving to Chicago study music composition and acoustical engineering.

As a traditional musician, Andrew Emil has worked as a keyboardist, arranger, and an orchestrator on recording sessions and productions, cutting his teeth at the former Chicago Trax Recording Studios. Andrew studied composition with Gustavo Leone, Ilya Levinson, and Andy Hill.

After a life in live music performance, from orchestra percussion sections to punk rock ensembles, he crafted a reputation for House Music productions in Chicago under his own name, as well as Broadway & Wilson, and Uptown Tones.

Credited on over 200+ recordings, his composition and studio productions have ranged from concert works and sound design to film scoring stages and hundreds of releases of electronic music productions.

2012 saw the emergence of his epithet, Change Request, with the Change Theory EP on four play music. This new persona allowed the freedom to explore hybrids of mid-tempo live instrument focused jazz-dance-fusion.

Following this release was “After All” on Seasons Recordings, with another single thereafter featuring house music icon, Chez Damier, “I Wanna Go Back”, including a remarkable rework from Glenn Underground, on Glenview Records.

Eventide Audio Artist, Sound Designer, and Content Editor, Emil is the Marketing Partners Manager for benchmark effects processing pioneers. Waves Audio.

Website: http://www.andrewemil.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/andrewemilchicago
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/andrewemil
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/changerequest/