Biography
Timo Andres 🔊 (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
2023–24 season highlights include a recital debut for Carnegie Hall including the premiere of a new piece by Andres, Fiddlehead, and the New York premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Imaginary Pancake; a tour with the Calder Quartet including a new piano quintet by Andres, performed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, San Francisco Performances and Chamber Music Albuquerque; the world premiere of a piano concerto written by Andres for Aaron Diehl, led by John Adams at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In addition, Timo’s orchestrations and arrangements for Justin Peck’s new production of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise have had sold-out runs presented by the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and at The Fisher Center at Bard, running now at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. A new album of orchestral works, with cellist Inbal Segev and Metropolis Ensemble, is out March 22, 2024 on Nonesuch Records.
This season has also included Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Humanities Festival, and for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, all part of a celebration of a new edition of the Glass Etudes for which Timo served as advisor and editor.
Notable commissions 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, 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, Timo Andres has multiple solo albums including Shy and Mighty, was released to critical acclaim in 2010; Home Stretch, and the compilation album I Still Play, celebrating Robert Hurwitz. 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.
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Download a .docx biography.
Photos
taken by Jason Marck, Chicago, IL, January 2024
taken by Michael Wilson, Cincinnati, OH, March 2022
Representation
Timo Andres is represented by Colbert Artists Management in partnership with OtherARTS. For booking inquiries, contact Martha Bonta at bonta@colbertartists.com. For commissioning and publicity inquiries, contact Emily Motherwell at motherwell@otherarts.net.
Publishing
Download a .pdf works catalogue.
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All works are published in-house by Andres & Sons Bakery (ASCAP). To order printed & digital sheet music, please visit the Works section. Orchestral works are available for hire; please contact rentals@andres.com.