Michael Wilson
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- Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Listen: Timothy Andres in Concert at NYC's (Le) Poisson Rouge from Q2 Music
Composer/pianist Timothy Andres performed a concert at New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge in May of this year, performing what he described as a "musical 'self-portrait,'" including two of his own pieces, as well as works by Ted Hearne, Ingram Marshall, Brahms, and Schumann. The complete concert has now been posted by Q2 Music, New York's online new-music station, and can be heard here.
- Friday, June 8, 2012
Timothy Andres to Make London Debut at Wigmore Hall, Perform on BBC Radio 3's "In Tune"
Timothy Andres makes his London debut at Wigmore Hall tonight with a concert that marks the opening of the venue’s latest summer Late Night Series. The solo recital—a Time Out London Critics' Choice—includes Andres’s own music and works by Ted Hearne, Ingram Marshall, Brahms, and Schumann. He will discuss the concert and perform live on BBC Radio 3's In Tune this afternoon and was the subject of a Daily Telegraph "New Faces" piece.
About Timothy Andres
Timothy Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist. He grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in New York City. His compositions meld a classical-music upbringing with diverse interests in the natural world, graphic arts, technology, cooking, and photography. He has been praised for his “acute ear” by the New York Times’s Anthony Tommasini and “stubborn nose” by the New Yorker’s Alex Ross. Andres makes his Nonesuch debut with the May 2010 release of his album Shy and Mighty.
An avid pianist from an early age, Timothy (Timo for short) performs widely, focusing especially 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 concert. Eleanor Hancock was his piano teacher for many years; later, he studied with Frederic Chiu, Boris Berman, and Elisabeth Parisot.
Recent commissions include a work for the ACME string quartet and New York Youth Symphony (Senior), an octet for members of New World Symphony (Some Connecticut Gospel), an orchestral elegy for the Yale Symphony (Bathtub Shrine), and a chamber orchestra work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Nightjar), which was conducted by John Adams in May 2009. He also performed his solo piano piece How can I live in your world of ideas? on the Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella series, which was pronounced “irresistible” by Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed.
Timo earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale, majoring in music and composition, respectively. As an undergraduate, he wrote music criticism for the Yale Daily News and ran IGIGI, a coalition of Yale-affiliated composers. He was a founding member of the Hindemith Ensemble, Yale’s premiere chamber ensemble, and toured Germany with them as pianist and composer-in-residence. He has received awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, BMI, and ASCAP.
Timo 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 Martin Bresnick, Ingram Marshall, Aaron Jay Kernis, Chris Theofanidis, John Halle, Matthew Suttor, Kathryn Alexander, Michael Klingbeil, and Orianna Webb.
Latest Release
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Shy and Mighty
May 18, 2010On his debut album, pianist-composer Timothy Andres offers what the New York Times calls "a richly imaginative 10-movement work for two pianos," performed by Andres and pianist David Kaplan. The New Yorker calls it "the kind of sprawling, brazen work that a young composer should write," achieving "an unhurried grandeur that has rarely been felt in American music since John Adams came on the scene."
