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TIMO ANDRES
Timo Andres grew up in Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, New York. As a Nonesuch Records artist, his albums include Home Stretch and Shy and Mighty.
Notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Andris Nelsons; 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 and premiered at the Barbican; and The Blind Banister, a piano concerto for Jonathan Biss. Co-commissioned by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra with Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts and Orchestra of St. Luke’s, The Blind Banister was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize finalist.
As a soloist, recent performances include the world premiere of a piano concerto by Ingram Marshall with John Adams and the Los Angeles Philharmonic and an appearance at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where he received the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protégé Prize; Philip Glass selected Andres as the recipient of this award.
This season Andres writes new works for Music Academy of the West, for cellist Inbal Segev and Metropolis Ensemble at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and for Ravinia’s Steans Institute of Music.
Andres studied composition and piano at the Yale School of Music. He is one sixth of the Sleeping Giant composers’ collective.
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