Andrew von Oeyen

Andrew von Oeyen (born November 12, 1979) is an American concert pianist.

Life and career

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 Leni Fe Bland Foundation National Piano Competition (2001).

He went on to perform extensively in recital and in orchestral appearances around the world, appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Utah Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Pacific Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Vancouver Symphony, Mariinsky Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, New Japan Philharmonic, and Prague Philharmonia 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, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the Herbst Theater in San Francisco, Sala São Paulo, Teatro Olimpico in Rome, in Bucharest, Vietnam, Macau, and in all the major concert halls of Japan and South Korea. He regularly appears at festivals including Aspen, Ravinia, Saratoga, Mainly Mozart, Grand Teton, Grant Park, Spoleto Festival USA, Gilmore, Festival del Sole (Napa Valley), Schubertiade (Austria) and "Piano en Valois" (France). He has also toured extensively with violinist Sarah Chang throughout Europe, the United States and Asia.

In 2014, Von Oeyen appeared at the Royal Opera House Muscat for the Sultanate of Oman's New Year’s Gala concerts and in June 2015 made his debut with the Mariinsky Orchestra at the Stars of the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg.

Andrew von Oeyen signed in June 2016 with Warner Classics. His first album of works for piano and orchestra by Saint-Saëns, Ravel and Gershwin was released in January 2017.

Von Oeyen lives in Paris and Los Angeles.

Discography
  • Liszt Piano Music. Label: Delos International/Naxos DE3412
  • Andrew von Oeyen Live in Recital. Label: V&V Records (digital release)
  • Debussy. Stravinsky, Newman. Label: Delos 3412
  • Saint-Saens, Ravel, Gershwin Works for Piano and Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia; Emmanuel Villaume (conductor). Label: Warner Classics.
  • Ravel - Debussy - Bizet, Prague Philharmonia; Emmanuel Villaume (conductor). Label: Warner Classics.

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