Timo Andres is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. Known for his unique artistic voice, he is highly regarded as a collaborator across classical music as well as visual arts, literature, and musical theater.
Recent highlights include a sold-out solo recital debut for Carnegie Hall, and the world premiere of a piano concerto for Aaron Diehl at the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by John Adams. Andres and Diehl have a recital duo program that has been performed at the Philips Collection and will appear at Carnegie Hall. Andres’s orchestrations and arrangements for Justin Peck’s 2024 production of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise completed an acclaimed limited run on Broadway at the St. James Theater following sold-out runs at The Fisher Center at Bard, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and at the Park Avenue Armory. For his work on the production, Andres was nominated for 2024 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.
A trusted collaborator of Philip Glass, Andres served as advisor and editor of a 2023 edition of the Etudes published by Artisan, and performs the with the Pomegranate Arts productions of the Etudes internationally, with dates at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Elbphilarmonie, the Philharmonie Berlin, for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts and elsewhere.
Notable compositions include The Great Span, a 2023 piano quintet for himself and the Calder Quartet; Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet; 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, and the New World Symphony, 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. Andres 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 recording with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s 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 since his debut, Shy and Mighty, including the 2024 GRAMMY-nominated 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.