2020–2021 Season
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- 📺 Timo Andres on YouTube
- I’ve been running an ongoing “concert series” on my YouTube channel since the pandemic shut down live performances in March 2020. I’ll be keeping this calendar up-to-date as live performances sporadically re-emerge, and also keeping track of the many other online events that have sprung up in their stead.
OCT
- 3
- SAT
- 📺 Online, Duke Performances, 8.00 pm EST
- The pianist Aaron Diehl performs his take on my Wise Words, alongside music by William Grant Still, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Bach.
- 7
- WED
- 📺 Online, University of Michigan, 8.00 pm EST
- Students at The University of Michigan perform Play it by Ear.
- 16
- FRI
- 📺 Online, Caramoor, 8.00 pm EST
- The pianist Aaron Diehl performs his take on my Wise Words, joined by his trio (Paul Sikivie, bass, and Aaron Kimmel, drums).
NOV
- 4
- WED
- 📺 Online, Idagio, 2.00 pm EST
- Live interview with Rachel Fenlon of Classical [R]evolution.
- 9
- MON
- 📺 Online, University of Washington, 7.30 pm PST
- A program with the impeccable violinist Rachel Lee Priday, including music by Ives, Wolfe, Copland, Cerrone, and Holcomb, and the première of my Three Suns for solo violin.
17TUE- San Francisco, CA, Herbst Theater, 7.30 pm
- Update: postponed until further notice.
Joining the extraordinary Jennifer Koh and Jay Campbell for a program of Janáček and my music, culminating in my Piano Trio.
DEC
6SUN- Washington, D.C., Phillips Collection, 4.00 pm
- Update: video performance will be released in spring 2021.
A program with the impeccable violinist Rachel Lee Priday, including music by Ives, Wolfe, Copland, and Cerrone, and the première of my Three Suns for solo violin.
JAN 2021
29FRI- San Francisco, CA, Herbst Theater, 7.30 pm
- This performance will take place online; more details to follow.
Solo piano recital. Program to include works by John Adams, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Brad Mehldau, Nico Muhly, Robin Holcomb, Gabriella Smith, Aaron Copland, and Frederic Rzewski, as well as my own Old Ground.
FEB
- 11
- THU
- 📺 Online, San Francisco Performances
- A new recital filmed and recorded in my living room, pairing Schubert Impromptus and Glass Etudes. Watch the whole thing here.
- 19
- FRI
- 📺 Online, Asheville Symphony
- Pianist Aaron Diehl plays his take on my Wise Words, alongside music by William Grant Still, Willie “The Lion” Smith, Mary Lou Williams, and Bach.
- 25
- THU
- 📺 Online, San Francisco Performances
- A second all-new recital filmed for San Francisco Performances. This one will include a mix of bite-sized pieces by François Couperin, Alvin Singleton, John Adams, Robert Schumann, Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc, Clara Schumann, Sir Roland Hanna, and Meredith Monk. Watch the whole thing here.
MAR
- 4
- THU
- New York, NY, Kaufman Center Musical Storefront, 12.00 pm, 1.00 pm, and 2.00 pm
- Performing at the Kaufman Center storefront pop-up on the Upper West Side.
- 7
- SUN
- 📺 Online, Phillips Collection, 4.00 pm
- A very special broadcast with violinist Rachel Lee Priday, straight from my living room. The program will feature violin sonatas by Aaron Copland and Chris Cerrone, as well as music by Julia Wolfe, Charles Ives, Robin Holcomb, and my own Three Suns. Here’s a preview: Julia Wolfe’s Mink Stole.
- 10
- WED
- 📺 Online, Ojai Talks, 8.30 pm EST
- Honored to speak with Laurie Anderson and Bob Hurwitz about the I Still Play collection.
- 11
- THU
- 📺 Online, National Arts Club, 3.00 pm
- Violinist Alex Gonzalez performs Winding Stair on this livestreamed recital.
13–15SAT–MON- Portland, OR, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 7.30 pm / 2.00 pm / 7.30 pm
- Update: postponed to the 2022–23 season.
A weekend with the Oregon Symphony. I’ll be performing my piano concerto The Blind Banister, led by conductor James Gaffigan.
- 23
- TUE
- 📺 Online, and in Freiburg, DE, Jazzhaus, 8.00 pm
- The Holst Sinfonietta performs Checkered Shade. The concert will stream online here.
- 25
- THU
- 📺 Online, Michigan State University, 7.30 pm
- The M21 Ensemble at Michigan State University performs Nightjar, conducted by Katherine Killburn. The concert will be available for streaming online here.
- 27
- SAT
- 📺 Online, Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, 3.00 pm EST
- Catherine Gregory and David Kaplan perform my flute and piano piece Steady Gaze, written for them in 2017.
APR
- 14
- WED
- 📺 Online, Kettle Corn New Music, 8.00 pm
- The premiere of a special film made for Kettle Corn New Music, of Julia Wolfe’s My Lips From Speaking.
- 17
- SAT
- East River Bandshell, New York, NY, NY PopsUp Festival, 2.00 pm
- Playing a short outdoor set on this lovely series of outdoor performances taking place throughout the city. Also: performances by Chris Thile, poet Carl Hancock Rux, and Lake Street Dive.
- 17
- SAT
- 📺 Online, Harriman-Jewell Series, 8.00 pm EST
- Pianist Zhu Wang plays Moving Études, written for him in 2017.
- 18
- SUN
- 📺 Online, Bang on a Can, 1.00–5.00 pm EST
- David Byrd-Marrow premieres House Calls, my new piece for solo horn, on this month’s Bang on a Can online marathon.
- 24
- SAT
- 📺 Online, Northwest Horn Symposium, 7.00 pm PDT
- The extraordinary french hornist David Byrd-Marrow performs House Calls, a short solo work which I wrote for him.
29THU- San Francisco, CA, Herbst Theater, 7.30 pm
- Rescheduled for the 21–22 season.
Première of a new song cycle for superstar countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and the Attacca Quartet, alongside works by Philip Glass.
MAY
- 9
- SUN
- San Francisco, CA, Crowden Music Center, 12.00 pm
- The day-long Hear Together piano festival at Crowden Music Center includes some of my music performed by Elizabeth Dorman.
- 21
- FRI
- Brooklyn, NY, Bargemusic, 7.00 pm
- A live, in-person solo concert at the newly-reopened Bargemusic, one of my favorite hometown venues. The program will include music by Southam, Rorem, Debussy, Ellington, and Schumann.
- 30
- SUN
- 📺 Online, Dresdner Musikfestspiele, 8.00 pm
- Celebrating John Adams’s big prize from the Dresden Music Festival, alongside Eric Jacobsen, Gil Shaham, and The Knights. I’ll play John’s short variation set I Still Play.
JUN
- 12
- SAT
- Southold, NY, Rites of Spring Music Festival, 7.30 pm
- Cellist Iva Casian-Lakos and keyboardist Paolo Bartolani perform Fast Flows the River.
JUL
- 9
- FRI
- Brooklyn, NY, The Catacombs at Greenwood Cemetery, 7.30 pm
- Pianist Min Kwon premieres my American Coda as part of her ambitious America/Beautiful project.
- 11
- SUN
- Newport, RI, Newport Music Festival, 6.00 pm
- Pianist Aaron Diehl performs Wise Words.
- 22–24
- THU–SAT
- Nantucket, MA, Nantucket Dance Festival, various times
- The Nantucket Dance Festival has commissioned new work from two choreographers (Abdul Latif and Eric Trope) set to my second string quartet Early To Rise and my Piano Trio. The stellar musicians are Pala Garcia, Jennifer Choi, Christian Frederickson, John Popham, and Robert Fleitz.
- 23
- FRI
- San Francisco, CA Herbst Theater, 7.30 pm
- An in person, in-the-flesh solo concert at San Francisco Performances’ summer festival. I’ll be playing music by Adams, Ellington, Debussy, Southam, Rorem, and Schumann.
- 24
- SAT
- San Francisco, CA Herbst Theater, 7.30 pm
- Closing out San Francisco Performances’ summer lineup joined by Jennifer Koh and Jay Campbell for my Piano Trio, as well as works by Janácek.
AUG
- 4
- WED
- Ridgefield, CT, Charles Ives Music Festival, 7.00 pm
- Violinist Julia Choi and pianist Mika Sasaki perform Words Fail.
- 21
- SAT
- Oranjewoud, The Netherlands, Oranjewoud Festival, 5.30 pm
- Cellist Johannes Moser premieres Ogee as part of his surround-sound Electric Cello Project.
- 27
- FRI
- Presteigne, Wales, UK, Presteigne Festival, 11.30 am / 2.30 pm
- Pianist George Xiaoyuan Fu performs Clear and Cold.