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Andrew von Oeyen (born November 12, 1979) is a concert pianist. He is a citizen of the United States and France. [1]
Von Oeyen began piano lessons at age five in Los Angeles and made his solo orchestral debut at age ten. At age 16, he made his debut with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He studied at the Juilliard School and Columbia University and won the Gilmore Young Artist Award (1999), and First Prize in the Léni Fé Bland Foundation National Piano Competition (2001).
He has performed extensively in recital and in orchestral appearances around the world, appearing as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, Prague Philharmonia, Bilbao Symphony, Biel Solothurn Symphony Orchestra , Jerusalem Symphony, Slovenian Philharmonic, and Slovak Philharmonic, among others. On July 4, 2009, von Oeyen performed at the U.S. Capitol with the National Symphony Orchestra in "A Capitol Fourth." The concert was broadcast live by PBS both in the US and internationally.
Von Oeyen has appeared in recital at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Symphony Hall, Boston, Tonhalle Orchester Zürich, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Bolshoi Zal in St. Petersburg, Royal Opera of Versailles, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco, Sala São Paulo, Teatro Olimpico in Rome, Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Hong Kong Cultural Centre, Hanoi Opera House in Vietnam, and in all the major concert halls of Japan and South Korea. He regularly appears at festivals including Aspen Music Festival and School, Ravinia Festival, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Mainly Mozart Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, Grant Park Music Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Gilmore, Brevard Music Center, Chautauqua Institution, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley), Schubertiade (Austria) and White Nights Festival (Mariinsky). He has also toured extensively with violinist Sarah Chang throughout Europe, the United States and Asia.
Von Oeyen has appeared twice at the Royal Opera House Muscat for the Sultan of Oman's New Year's Gala concerts and made his debut at the Sheikh Jaber Al-Ahmad Cultural Centre in Kuwait in 2019.
Andrew von Oeyen signed with Warner Classics in 2016 and has released four albums under that label: Saint-Saëns, Ravel, Gershwin: Piano Concertos;Ravel - Debussy - Bizet;Bach – Beethoven; and Angels & Demons. The first single from Bach – Beethoven reached the top of the Apple Music A-List in 2021 and the first single from Angels & Demons reached the top of the Spotify New Classical Releases list. He has also recorded award-winning recital albums of Liszt, Debussy, and Stravinsky under the Delos label.
Von Oeyen lives in Paris and Los Angeles. His and his partner's house in Malibu was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire in November 2018. He and other plaintiffs sued the electricity company Southern California Edison for causing the fire due to mishandling of equipment in their research facility. [2]
Joanna Clare MacGregor is a British concert pianist, conductor, composer, and festival curator. She is Head of Piano at the Royal Academy of Music and a professor of the University of London. She was artistic director of the International Summer School & Festival at Dartington Hall from 2015 to 2019.
Alexis Sigismund Weissenberg was a Bulgarian-born French pianist.
Yeol Eum Son is a world renowned South Korean classical pianist. She is an interpreter of the Classical era of composers, especially Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, as well as such later composers as Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Ravel. Over the past fifteen years, Son has achieved global acclaim for her performances of Mozart’s piano concertos.
James Zuill Bailey, better known as Zuill Bailey is an American Grammy Award-winning cello soloist, chamber musician, and artistic director. A graduate of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University and the Juilliard School, he has appeared in recital and with major orchestras internationally. He is a professor of cello and Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Texas at El Paso. Bailey’s extensive recording catalogue are released on TELARC, Avie, Steinway and Sons, Octave, Delos, Albany, Sono Luminus, Naxos, Azica, Concord, EuroArts, ASV, Oxingale and Zenph Studios.
The Grand Prix du Disque for Instrumental and Symphonic Music is awarded by the Académie Charles Cros, L'Abbaye, 02570 Chézy sur Marne, France. Categories vary from year to year, and multiple awards may be given in the same year in the same exact category. Instrumental and Symphonic music may include solo & orchestra (concerto) or pure symphonic music. Other subcategories have included classical symphonic music, contemporary symphonic music and modern concerto.
Enrique Graf is a Uruguayan-American pianist.
Benjamin Grosvenor is a British classical pianist.
Andreas Haefliger is a German-born Swiss pianist.
Piotr Anderszewski is a Polish pianist and composer.
Emmanuel Villaume is a French orchestra conductor. He is currently music director of the Dallas Opera and chief conductor of the Prague Philharmonia.
Kun-woo Paik is a South Korean pianist. He has performed with multiple orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic.
Carol Rosenberger is a classical pianist. In 1976, Rosenberger was chosen to represent America's women concert artists by the President's National Commission on the Observance of International Women's Year. She has given performance workshops for young musicians on campuses nationwide. Rosenberger recorded over 30 albums on the Delos Productions, Inc. recording label. Rosenberger's memoir, To Play Again: A Memoir of Musical Survival was published in 2018 by She Writes Press.
Dejan Lazić is a Croatian pianist and composer, and a naturalised Austrian citizen. He has appeared with such orchestras as the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony, Bamberger Symphoniker, Swedish Radio, Danish National, Helsinki Philharmonic, Australian Chamber Orchestra and NHK Symphony Orchestra, working with such conductors as Iván Fischer, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Giovanni Antonini, Kirill Petrenko, Robert Spano and John Storgårds.
Alessio Bax is an Italian classical pianist. He graduated from the Bari conservatory at the record age of 14. He won the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition in Japan at age 19 and the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition in 2000 after first participating in 1993. Bax was a member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's CMS Two for three seasons, beginning in 2009. He also received the Avery Fisher Career Grant in 2009. He studied at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas with Basque pianist Joaquín Achúcarro. Bax is a Steinway Artist. He also serves since 2019 on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music as a professor of piano.
Artur Pizarro is an internationally-acclaimed Portuguese concert pianist. Designated with the prestigious title of Yamaha Artist, Pizarro won first prize in the 1987 Vianna da Motta International Music Competition and first prize in the 1990 Leeds International Pianoforte Competition. His piano technic/knowledge is linked directly to Liszt himself : his teacher for 17 years, Sequeira Costa, was a great Portuguese pianist who had studied with José Vianna Da Motta, another world famous Portuguese pianist who was one of the last pupils of Liszt.
Rachel Kolly, born 21 May 1981 in Lausanne, Switzerland, is a Swiss violinist. Considered a child prodigy at the violin, she started playing at the age of five.
The International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) are music awards first awarded 6 April 2011. ICMA replace the Cannes Classical Awards formerly awarded at MIDEM. The jury consists of music critics of magazines Andante, Crescendo, Fono Forum, Gramofon, Kultura, Musica, Musik & Theater, Opera, Pizzicato, Rondo Classic, Scherzo, with radio stations MDR Kultur (Germany), Orpheus Radio 99.2FM (Russia), Radio 100,7 (Luxembourg), the International Music and Media Centre (IMZ) (Austria), website Resmusica.com (France) and radio Classic (Finland).
Conrad Yiwen Tao is an American composer and pianist and former violinist. Tao's piano and violin performances since childhood brought him early recognition at music festivals and competitions. At age 13, he was featured on the PBS TV series From the Top – Live from Carnegie Hall as violinist, pianist and composer. He won eight consecutive ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards. Among his compositions have been commissions by the New York Philharmonic, Hong Kong Philharmonic, Pacific Symphony and Dallas Symphony Orchestra.
Fantaisie for piano and orchestra (L.73/CD.72), is a composition for piano and orchestra by French composer Claude Debussy. It was composed between October 1889 and April 1890, but only received its first public performance in 1919, a year after Debussy's death. The work is dedicated to the pianist René Chansarel, who had been scheduled to play the solo part for the cancelled premiere in 1890.
Hai-Kyung Suh is a South Korean classical pianist living in New York. She is known for her rich, round tone, and singing voice-like phrasing, characteristics of the Romantic style of piano playing that was predominant in the Golden Age of pianism.
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