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Timothy Andres (b. 1985, Palo Alto, CA) is a composer and pianist. He grew up in rural Connecticut and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His compositions meld a classical-music upbringing with diverse interests in the natural world, graphic arts, technology, cooking, and photography.
An avid pianist from an early age, Timothy (Timo for short) performs widely, focusing especially on music by his contemporaries.
Recent works include Trade Winds, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for Ensemble ACJW; Family Plays, a short song cycle for Gabriel Kahane; It takes a long time to become a good composer, a companion suite to Schumann’s Kreisleriana; a re-imagined version of Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 26 for Metropolis Ensemble with original left hand and cadenzas; an Ives-inspired work for ACME Quartet; an octet for New World Symphony chamber players; a “double concerto†for violinist-violist Owen Dalby and the Albany Symphony; and a chamber orchestra work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, which was conducted by John Adams.
Timo earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale. In addition to music, he gravitated toward visual arts, and moonlights as a professional graphic and web designer. He first studied composition during high school at Juilliard’s Pre-College division.
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