The composer/pianist Timo Andres offers a new solo recital program in concert at Bargemusic next Friday, March 9 (tickets and more information). 

Interleaving selections of Janácek's On an Overgrown Path with new and recent works by Christopher Cerrone, Caroline Shaw, and Eric Shanfield, the program has been hailed as  "an immersive listening experience, a puritanical concertgoer's dream." 
 

Reviews of Andres's performance of the program for San Francisco Performances's PIVOT series: 



Joshua Kosman, Jan. 27, 2018

"Timo Andres is a musical triple threat. To his well-established credentials as a composer and a pianist, we can now add a third strain: Andres has a dazzling knack for assembling a concert program.

All three gifts were on display (though in tellingly uneven proportions) during the swift and brilliant hour-long solo recital he gave at the Strand Theater on Friday, Jan. 26, as part of San Francisco Performances’ Pivot series. This was the work of someone who had thought seriously about how to present the music he had assembled for the occasion, and then gone on to deliver it in performances of subtlety and insight...with a superb blend of crisp keyboard clarity and soft-edged lyricism."
Read the full review here. 

"At the Strand Theater on Friday, the Brooklyn-based composer and performer gave a refreshingly unorthodox piano recital through San Francisco Performances’s PIVOT series, which is focused on new music in somewhat informal settings. With respect to pitches, Andres arranged his program — weaving movements of Janáček between new piano works written by his friends — also New York-based and young — in a way that created seamless transitions between the old and new. There were no breaks, no designated periods for coughing and shifting: It was an immersive listening experience, a puritanical concertgoer’s dream."
Read the full review here. 
(Timo is carrying this recital program through 2019. Contact Emily Motherwell with booking inquiries.)

From Andres's program note: 
I suppose what I’m trying to “say”, if one can speak through one’s programming, is that the way an artist sees art and the world is not usually confined to a single form or discipline. The qualities that move me in music are the same that move me about a building, a photograph, or a piece of choreography. They’re all related in cryptic ways.

Want to learn more? Read Timo's latest post and the full program note on his website, and check out this lovely interview with him in San Francisco Classical Voice (Lou Fancher, Jan. 9, 2018).
Timo Andres's upcoming highlights include: 
 

• a duo recital at the Barbican Centre with David Kaplan, featuring Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances (April 27) 
(Look for information about a New York presentation of this program from us, SOON.)
 

• a commission from for the Ravinia Steans Music Institute for a piano trio, celebrating RSMI's 30th Anniversary (July 2018)
 

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Enjoy videos of Timo Andres in action below, and contact Emily Motherwell, OtherARTS, to inquire about booking and commissioning opportunities in coming seasons.

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