Biography

Timo Andres 🔊 (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecti­cut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Andres’ season is threaded through by an ongoing collab­o­ra­tion with pianist Aaron Diehl; the duo performs a two-piano recital (includ­ing a new work by Andres) at Carnegie Hall and Howland Chamber Music in January. Diehl also performs Andres’s 2024 concerto, Made of Tunes, at the Minnesota and Cleve­land Orches­tras. Andres performs his thirs piano concerto, The Blind Banister, with the Maryland Symphony led by Eliz­a­beth Schulze, and writes new commis­sions for the Heida Hermanns Compe­ti­tion, cellist Arlen Hlusko, and The Living Earth Show.

In recent seasons, Timo made his sold out solo recital debut at Carnegie Hall; received a Tony nomi­na­tion for his work orches­tra­tions and arrange­ments of Sufjan Stevens’s Illi­noise for the acclaimed theatri­cal produc­tion by Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury; served as advisor and editor of a 2023 edition of the Philip Glass Etudes published by Artisan; and performed with the Pome­gran­ate Arts produc­tions of the Glass Etudes inter­na­tion­ally, includ­ing recent dates at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Human­i­ties Festival, the Elbphi­lar­monie, the Phil­har­monie Berlin, and for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts.

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. Biss recorded the work with Pekka Kuusisto and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orches­tra for Orchid Classics in 2025.

As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Metrop­o­lis Ensemble, among others. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall. Timo’s collab­o­ra­tors include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, and—of course—Philip Glass, who selected Andres as the recip­i­ent of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize. He was nomi­nated for a Grammy award for his perfor­mances on 2021’s The Arching Path, an album of music by Christo­pher Cerrone. Andres’s collab­o­ra­tions with Sufjan Stevens also include his May 2023 record­ing with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s latest album, Reflec­tions; arrange­ments of ballets for New York City Ballet, and a solo piano album, The Deca­logue.

A Nonesuch Records artist, Andres has multiple albums on the label, includ­ing 2024’s The Blind Banister with Metrop­o­lis Ensemble. A Yale School of Music graduate, he is a Yamaha/Bösendorfer Artist and is on the compo­si­tion faculty at the Mannes School of Music at the New School. He was recently awarded the 2025 Stoeger Prize by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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