Timo Andres – Press

“The US composer and pianist doesn’t shy away from pushing both his own and others’ musical ideas to extremes, he positively embraces the notion”

“Andres’ two pieces were the standouts of the night, both for the musical depth and supple interpretation.”

‘Original, arresting and eclectic. A highly accomplished disc all round.’

“What Peck, collaborating with playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury and arranger Timo Andres, has done instead is hand-craft a hybrid work as bespoke as Stevens’s carefully composed album.:”

“There’s no dialogue. It’s the music that is the undisputed star here. With new arrangements by the composer Timo Andres, and featuring three fine vocalists, the music carries the production…“

“I’ve never heard a show sound so good in the Armory’s vast Drill Hall,…The 11-player band, under the musical direction of Nathan Koci, justifies that joyful extra “e” in the show’s title. The arrangements and orchestrations by Timo Andres are sublime…”

“It felt like a deeply personal program; bearing witness was privilege and pleasure alike.”

“Andres has a dazzling knack for assembling a concert program.”

“Andres delivered everything on the program with a superb blend of crisp keyboard clarity and soft-edged lyricism.”

“Andres naturally sought out points of communality, answering Schubert’s arpeggios in the A-flat impromptu with Glass’s in the harmonically wilder, jazz-tinged 16th etude that followed it.”

“A lovely effort from a fascinating and fast-developing musician.”

“Once the coronavirus pandemic canceled concerts around the world, Timo Andres decided to reconstruct his recital as a series of YouTube videos.”

“For Timo Andres, one of several brilliant composers to come out of the Yale School of Music over the last quarter century, context is commonplace.”

“Andres is doing contemporary classical music a service by forswearing the old-school composer’s aura – that of a tortured mystic laboring at his work. He’s witty, conversational and seemingly secure enough in his talents to trust that we won’t mistake his good humor for a lack of seriousness.”