Andre Gribou has composed for and collaborated with many nationally and internationally known artists in the creation of works for both dance and theater.  The most notable of these artists include Gladys Bailin, Mark Dendy, Chris Aiken, Peter Bingham, Douglas Neilson, David Parsons, Margaret Beals, Nusha Martynuk and Carter McAdams, Lenora Champagne, Judy Dworin, Stephanie Skura, Mark Haim, and the Lark String Quartet. His theme music for the WCBS-TV NFL Today Preview received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Musical Composition, and he composed the score for the Emmy award-winning documentary Wandering Souls: Tet 68.  Most recently, he scored the NASA-TV project Water for Tea , which received the top prize at the 2003 Communicator Awards: the Crystal Award for Excellence and the Award of Distinction for Original Music.

As a pianist, Mr. Gribou has performed solo and chamber music throughout the U.S. and Latin America. Venues have included Lincoln Center, The United Nations, and The American New Music Consortium.  In 1997, André and choreographer/dancer Mark Haim performed the world premiere of their duet at The American Dance Festival: a solo dance piece set to The Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach.  Since the premiere, Gribou and Haim have performed The Goldberg Variations throughout the United States and abroad, including sold-out performances at the Kennedy Center; the Center for the Contemporary Arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia; and the Seoul Dance Festival in Korea.  For the 2000-2002 seasons they presented The Goldberg Variations as part of the Lincoln Center Institute Arts in Education Program. In 2003 Gribou was invited by the Lincoln Center Institute to present a solo piano program; Time Travel with the Virtuoso Keyboard .

André Gribou holds degrees from the Hartt School of Music and The Juilliard School.  He has served as Music Director at the Ohio University School of Dance and joinined the Ohio University School of Music faculty in the fall of 2004. In 1998 and 2004 he was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers . 

During his tenure at Ohio University, Mr. Gribou has received numerous University grants and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Fellowship Awards for Music Composition. He has held a faculty musician position at The American Dance Festival since 1994.  Prior to joining the Ohio University faculty, André served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, Trinity College, New York University, and the United Nations International School.