Timo Andres

Composer and pianist Timo Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Recent highlights include a sold-out solo piano recital debut for Carnegie Hall, and a piano concerto composed for Aaron Diehl with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, led by John Adams. Andres’s orchestrations and arrangements for Justin Peck and Jackie Sibblies Drury’s new production of Sufjan Stevens’s Illinoise received a 2024 Tony Nomination for Best Orchestration; the show is currently running  at the St. James Theater on Broadway after sold-out runs at The Fisher Center at Bard, the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and at New York City’s Park Avenue Armory.

Andres’s performances of Philip Glass’s Etudes are widely praised; he has toured with them since 2014, performed them for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, and acted as advisor and editor of a new edition of the Etudes published by Artisan Works.

Timo Andres has been commissioned by the Boston Symphony, the Takács Quartet, Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series, performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, and Wigmore Hall and appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Metropolis Ensemble, among others.

A Nonesuch Records artist, Timo Andres has multiple solo albums on the label (with more set for upcoming release in 2025). 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.