Conductor, pianist and music director Aaron Gandy is a specialist in American musical theater and American popular song. Aaron's Broadway credits include Disney's The Lion King, Urinetown, and Dora the Explorer Live! at Radio City Music Hall. He has concertized with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Chicago Humanities Festival, 42nd Street Moon, Cami Hall, San Francisco's 42nd Street Moon, The Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium, The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Broadcasting), Symphony Space, Tribeca Performing Arts Center.

Aaron's recent recordings include Life Begins at 8:40 starring Faith Prince, Kate Baldwin and Montego Glover (PS Classics), Busker Alley starring Glenn Close and Jim Dale (Jay Records) and Jule Styne In Hollywood featuring an all-star line-up that includes Sutton Foster, Audra McDonald, Kelly O'Hara, Norm Lewis and others (PS Classics). He conducted the premiere recording of Kay Swift's Fine & Dandy on PS Classics featuring Broadway's Carolee Carmello and HBO's Mario Cantone. Upcoming recordings include The Musicality of Vincent Youmans (Jay Records). Regarded as a leading authority on composer Vincent Youmans, Aaron restored and conducted the premiere recording of Youmans' final Broadway score Through the Years starring Metropolitan Opera Soprano Heidi Grant Murphy (PS Classics).

Aaron musical theater projects include the Broadway-bound Just Jim Dale directed by Richard Maltby, Jr, The Break-up Notebook which premiered at The Revision Theater in Asbury Park, NJ directed by Peter Schneider, and two musicals by composer/lyricist Mark York, Galveston! and Rest In Peace.

Aaron restored the original film orchestrations for Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I, and Irving Berlin's White Christmas. His restoration of the original film orchestrations for Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! was performed by the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra in 1997.

His association with the Music Division of the Library of Congress began in 1995 with 'Swonderful! The Library of Congress Salutes the George and Ira Gershwin Collection. For Richard Rodgers' centenary in 2002 Mr. Gandy teamed with soprano Sylvia McNair for a program entitled Rodgers Rarities, which highlighted the Library's Richard Rodgers Collection. Later that year, Aaron conducted Rodgers and Hart's classic A Connecticut Yankee in Veterans Memorial Hall in San Francisco, starring Davis Gaines.

For New York City's celebrated Encores series, he coordinated the restoration of Harold Arlen's St. Louis Woman and Cole Porter's DuBarry Was A Lady. For Carnegie Hall, he coordinated concert presentations of the Gershwin's Tip Toes and Irving Berlin's Louisiana Purchase. Aaron has restored and performed Youmans' Great Day! at the Library of Congress, and Rainbow starring Jerry Hadley in New York City.

Other recording projects include The Boys from Syracuse (DRG), St. Louis Woman (Mercury) , Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (Decca Broadway), Tip Toes and Tell Me More (New World Records) and Louisiana Purchase (DRG), and Orchids in the Moonlight/The Carioca (Arabesque). Concerts have included Doin' What Comes Naturally: GMHC's Broadway Salute to Ethel Merman, Colm Wilkinson: Stage Heroes (broadcast on PBS), and Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (also on PBS); other concert appearances include performances with Davis Gaines, Leslie Uggams, Christianne Noll, Jerry Hadley, Jim Dale, Dick Hyman, Christine Ebersole and Glenn Close; he has also worked on solo recordings by Tony® Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth, soprano Tomoko Shibata and soprano Dawn Upshaw.

A native of North Florida, Aaron Gandy is a graduate of Florida State University's School of Music.