Andrew Schartmann is a Professor of Music at the New England Conservatory and serves as Audio Director at Yale’s XR Peds Lab. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University, working closely with Patrick McCreless and James Hepokoski. He also holds two degrees from McGill University (M.A., B. Mus.), where he studied theory with William E. Caplin and composition with Jean Lesage and Jon Wild. His primary composition teacher, however, was Alan Belkin (Université de Montréal), with whom he studied privately for several years. Other important mentors include Richard Cohn and Daniel Harrison in theory, as well as Shoshana Telner and Heather Riley in piano.

Prior to joining NEC, Schartmann served as an affiliate faculty member at Yale's Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. He has taught courses on tonal harmony, counterpoint, musical form, composition, musicianship, and video game music, and takes a special interest in music pedagogy. In 2011, he was awarded the Schulich School of Music Teaching Award for his course on musical form in the music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven; and in 2013, he created a companion site for the textbook Analyzing Classical Form (Oxford University Press, 2013).

Schartmann is the author of two books, including Koji Kondo's Super Mario Bros. Soundtrack (2015), which The New Yorker praised for its "overwhelming precision." His third book, forthcoming from Intellect/University of Chicago Press, investigates the compositional techniques of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Another book, forthcoming from Bloomsbury, investigates Keiji Inafune’s role in establishing some of the gaming industry’s foundational design principles. Schartmann's work for popular press has appeared in  Slate, Bandcamp, Frieze, and Clavier Companion, among others; and his academic work has appeared in Bloomsbury's 33 1/3: The B-Sides, The Routledge Companion to Music Theory Pedagogy, The Journal of Sound and Music in Games, and Addictive Behaviors. Along with colleagues William E. Caplin, Janet Schmalfeldt, and Alan Gosman, Schartmann was recently awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant to create an interactive website on Beethoven’s piano sonatas.

In August 2021, Schartmann worked with CBC’s Ben Edwards on a radio piece to celebrate Koji Kondo’s 60th birthday. And in 2016, he worked with the BBC on the documentary "While My Guitar Gently Bleeps," which traces the influence of retro video game sound on modern-day popular culture.

Schartmann is the Associate Editor of DSCH Journal—a biannual publication devoted to the life and work of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich—and serves as a board member of the Journal of Sound and Music in Games. In 2019, he was elected Treasurer of the New England Conference of Music Theorists.