Timothy Andres (born 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a creator and interpreter of contemporary music. He grew up in rural Connecticut and is currently studying at Yale School of Music (with Ingram Marshall and Aaron Jay Kernis). His compositions synthesize his classical-music background with interests in the natural world and minimalist music, art, and design.

An avid performer from an early age, Timothy (Timo for short) has played at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, focusing on music by his contemporaries. “New music cannot be intimidating when played with this degree of skill and zest,” proclaimed Boston Globe critic Richard Dyer of a recent recital in New York. He studied piano for many years with Eleanor Hancock, and later with Frederic Chiu, Boris Berman and Elisabeth Parisot.

Timothy has spent summers at Tanglewood, Norfolk, Bowdoin, and Aspen music festivals. He first studied composition during high school, at Juilliard’s Pre-College division (with Eric Ewazen) and has since worked with John Halle, Matthew Suttor, Kathryn Alexander, Michael Klingbeil, and Orianna Webb. His works have been premièred by Richard Lalli, Ransom Wilson, the NOW Ensemble, the Hindemith Ensemble, H. Robert Reynolds, and Jonathan Sheffer. Upcoming commissions include a work for the ACME string quartet and New York Youth Symphony, orchestral works for the Yale Symphony and Yale Philharmonia, and a chamber orchestra work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, to be conducted by John Adams in May 2009. He will also perform on the Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella new music series.

As a Yale undergraduate, Timothy wrote music criticism for the Yale Daily News and ran IGIGI, an organization comprised of Yale-affiliated composers. He is a founding member of the Hindemith Ensemble, Yale’s premiere chamber ensemble, and toured Germany with them as pianist and composer-in-residence. He graduated with distinction in 2007, receiving the Louis Sudler Prize. He has received a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008), the BMI Carlos Surinach award (2004) and three ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers’ Awards. As a freshman, he was profiled in a New Yorker article about young composers by Alex Ross.

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