Timo AndresPiano
About This Performance
You’ll see composer/pianist Timo Andres on multiple concerts this season, and with good reason. He’s an engagingly versatile artist with a gift for connecting with audiences to break down traditional stuffy barriers to enjoying great music. For example, he thinks you should clap whenever you want to, “As long as it’s not in a super beautiful quiet part!“
Program
Music by ANDRES, ADAMS, ANDRIESSEN, DENNEHY, GLASS, MEHLDAU, MUHLY, HOLCOMB, GABRIELLA SMITH (New Work), COPLAND and RZEWSKI
Performance Sponsors
James and Kathleen Leak, Individual Sponsors
Artist Information
Performer Biography
Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist.
As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, New World Symphony, and in many collaborations with Andrew Cyr and Metropolis Ensemble. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Phillips Collection, and (le) Poisson Rouge. Collaborators include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, the Kronos Quartet, John Adams, and Philip Glass, with whom he has performed the complete Glass Etudes around the world, and who selected Andres as the recipient of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. Andres also frequently works with Sufjan Stevens; his arrangements of Stevens’s ballet, Principia, were presented last season by the New York City Ballet, and his recording of Stevens’s newest album, The Decalogue, has received widespread acclaim.
This season, Andres curated (and performed in) “American Perspective,” a concert with the Cincinnati Symphony, André de Ridder, Dance Heginbotham, and Inbal Segev, playing his cello concerto, Upstate Obscura. Next season he is presented in residency by San Francisco Performances, including chamber music with Jennifer Koh and Jay Campbell; a solo recital; and a collaboration with a new commission for Anthony Roth Costanzo, the Attacca Quartet, and himself. He also plays The Blind Banister with the Oregon Symphony, led by James Gaffigan.
A Nonesuch Records artist, Timo Andres is featured as composer and pianist on the new album, I Still Play, comprising a set of piano pieces written by himself and fellow Nonesuch artists for Chairman Emeritus Bob Hurwitz. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School.