Biography

Timo Andres 🔊 (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist who grew up in rural Connecti­cut and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Recent high­lights have included a 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’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 New York City’s Park Avenue Armory. For his work on the produc­tion, Andres was nomi­nated for 2024 Tony Award for Best Orchestrations.

In 24–25, Timo Andres performs at Stanford Live with Conor Hanick, and at the Phillips Collec­tion with Aaron Diehl. He also reunites with the Calder Quartet to perform his new piano quintet The Great Span in New York City for the People’s Symphony.

Andres contin­ues with perfor­mances of Philip Glass’s Piano Etudes inter­na­tion­ally; he is a trusted collab­o­ra­tor of Philip Glass, serving as advisor and editor of a 2023 edition of the Etudes published by Artisan. Andres performed these works last season at Lincoln Center, the Chicago Human­i­ties Festival, the Music Academy of the West, for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts, and elsewhere.

Notable works include Every­thing Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takács Quartet, commis­sioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; 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, the New World Symphony, the Metrop­o­lis Ensemble, 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. He 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 May 2023 record­ing with Conor Hanick of Stevens’s latest 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, includ­ing 2024’s 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.

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