Andrew von Oeyen

Andrew von Oeyen has already established himself as one of the most captivating pianists of his generation. Since his debut at age 17 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, von Oeyen has performed to critical acclaim in recital and orchestral appearances around the world.

Already commanding an extensive and diverse repertoire, von Oeyen has had notable success in all of his 2006-2007 orchestral engagements, including his Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony and New Mexico Symphony, a subscription week with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Rach/Pag), the Liszt No. 1 with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Barber with the Utah Symphony, the Beethoven 1 with the Hartford Symphony, the Rachmaninoff No. 2 with the Virginia Symphony and the Stamford Symphony, the Beethoven 4 with the Bratislava Philharmonic, the Mozart Concertos K. 488 and K. 466 at the Bellingham Music Festival and with the Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay, and the Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue with the Tuscaloosa Symphony. His concert of works by Weill and Beethoven at the Spoleto Festival USA, conducted from the keyboard, was highly praised.

Von Oeyen has recently appeared in recital at London’s Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, in Detroit and Fresno and will embark on a major recital tour of Japan in February 2008. Of his Kennedy Center recital, Tim Page of the Washington Post wrote, “ [The Hayes Piano Series] concluded triumphantly Saturday afternoon with a smart, varied and altogether engrossing recital by Andrew von Oeyen…In fact, I would go so far as to say that von Oeyen played the finest all-around performance of Franz Liszt’s Sonata in B Minor that I have heard in many years.”

In recent seasons, von Oeyen has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Atlanta Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, Chicago’s Grant Park Festival Orchestra and the Singapore Symphony and has appeared in recital at Ravinia and in France at the “Piano en Valois” Festival. He won the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1999 and took First Prize in the Lení Fé Bland Foundation National Piano Competition in 2001.

Von Oeyen began his piano studies at age 5 and made his solo orchestral debut at age ten. An alumnus of Columbia University and recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal, he has also worked with Alfred Brendel and Leon Fleisher. His performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and he has been a featured guest on NPR’s Performance Today. Andrew von Oeyen makes his home in New York and Paris.