About TimoAn Evolving Creative Partnership
Composer and pianist Timo Andres is a fixture collaborator in the Metropolis community, from solo confections like "Small Wonder" for cellist Ashley Bathgate to grand panoramas like "Upstate Obscura" performed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Timo's 2013 studio album featured a highly-praised recomposition of Mozart's "Coronation" Piano Concerto, recorded with Metropolis at Tanglewood and helping producer David Frost to earn a 2014 "Classical Producer of the Year" Grammy Award. His upcoming studio album on Nonesuch is in-production with Metropolis, Nonesuch, and Grammy-winning producer Silas Brown.
Current Metropolis ProjectA New Studio Album
Metropolis is preparing for the release of Timo Andres' works for chamber orchestra, including "The Blind Banister" and "Upstate Obscura," the later of which was co-commissioned by Metropolis and MetLiveArts for our April 2018 concert, Time Travelers to Versailles at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The album is a collaboration with Nonesuch Records and Grammy-winning producer, Silas Brown.“Timo Andres’ Home Stretch provides thought-provoking glimpses into how the past and the present merge in classical music today… using the musical canon as a springboard to the future.”
NPR reviewed Metropolis Ensemble's commissioned recomposition of Mozart's "Coronation" released on Nonesuch Records in 2013.
Other Career Highlights
In 2017, Timo Andres premiered “The Decalogue,” a Sufjan Stevens composition with the New York City Ballet that went onto be released on Asthmatic Kitty in 2019. Timo and Sufjan also collaborated with Conor Hanick on “Reflections,” a two-piano ballet score in 2023; and “Illinoise,” an orchestral arrangement by Timo based on Sufjan’s 2005 album for a Bard College theatrical production in 2023.“Upstate Obscura features Timo Andres’s deceptively chaotic rhythmic hallmarks, but it also nods to Versailles’ heyday and Baroque ornamentation. He took a book of tunes by Couperin and stretched out mordents, trills and turns until they became their own melodies.”
The New York Times previewed our "Time Travelers to Versailles" concert at The Met with Timo Andres and TENET early-music ensemble in 2018.Previous Metropolis Projects
2022Memorial Tribute to Ingram Marshall
WNYC’s John Schaefer hosted a broadcast from The Greene Space, honoring the late American composer Ingram Marshall. The event featured Timo Andres (for whom Marshall was a mentor), Raquel Acevedo Klein, and a brass sextet of Metropolis artists performing some of Marshall’s influential works.2021Metropolis Radio
During the pandemic, Metropolis supported artists to create a weekly series of curated Spotify playlists. Timo Andres shares songs for a kind of shared intensity of spirit they all seem to possess.
2020House Music: Dark Days / Story of Our Town
During the pandemic, Metropolis hosted a weekly House Music video series for artists to develop original works, record from home, and share new music. Timo Andres performed Scott Wollschleger’s "Dark Days" and Aaron Copland’s "Story of Our Town" in his home in Brooklyn.
2018Time Travelers to Versailles
MetLiveArts, Metropolis, and early-music ensemble TENET collaborated to present world premiere Metropolis commissions by Caroline Shaw and Timo Andres, featuring cellist Inbal Segev, TENET, and Metropolis artists. This concert at The Metropolitan Museum of Art is a playful musical response to The Met exhibition, "Visitors to Versailles."
2016Metropolis Ensemble Tenth Anniversary
Metropolis presented multi-sensory musical performances including excerpts from Timo Andres' works, sound installations, projection mapping, and performance art alongside sixty composers and performers to celebrate ten years of music innovation.
2016Bach Unwound
Metropolis' Resident Artist Series concert with cellist Ashley Bathgate featured a collaboration with the Brooklyn-based composer collective Sleeping Giant (Timo Andres, Chris Cerrone, Jacob Cooper, Ted Hearne, Robert Honstein, and Andrew Norman) and the world premiere of a new series of reflections inspired by the Unaccompanied Cello Suites of J.S. Bach.
2015New Dances of the League of David
Metropolis co-commissioned sixteen miniatures inspired by Robert Schumann’s Davidsbündlertänze, including works from composers Timo Andres, Caroline Shaw, Gabriel Kahane, Mohammed Fairouz, and Hannah Lash. This Resident Artist Series concert at Le Poisson Rouge was hailed by the New York Times: “Mr. Kaplan played Schumann’s score and the new contributions to it with command, elegance and character.”2013Home Stretch Album
Released on Nonesuch Records, Timo Andres' studio album featured Metropolis commissioned works: a recomposition of Mozart's "Coronation" and "Paraphrase on Themes by Brian Eno." The album was recorded at Tanglewood with producer David Frost who received the 2014 Grammy Award “Classical Producer of the Year” for nine albums including Home Stretch.2013Home Stretch Album Launch
Housing Works Bookstore hosted a discussion with pianist/composer Timo Andres, artist/book designer Peter Mendelsund, and The New Yorker's Leo Carey. The event included performance excerpts of his own music and works by Brian Eno and Mozart on piano.
2011Renderings
Metropolis presented new works inspired by classical lyricism in their most contemporary forms by resident composers Timo Andres, Vivian Fung, and Ray Lustig. The concert at Angel Orensanz Center featured an encore performance of Timo Andres’ recomposition of Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 26 "Coronation,” along with performances by TENET, soprano Jolle Greenleaf, and violinist Kristin Lee.
2010It takes a long time to become a good composer
Metropolis and Andrew Cyr hosted an intimate solo piano recital in a private Upper West Side home with a sweeping panorama of Central Park in the background. The concert featured the music of Timo Andres and Robert Schumann, including the world premiere of “It takes a long time to become a good composer,” Schumann’s “Kreisleriana,” and Andres’ “Clamber Music.”
2010Home Stretch
Metropolis presented the world premiere of Timo Andres’ re-imagined Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 ("Coronation"), where Timo completed the left-hand part and cadenzas of the original work, and Andres' “Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno,” both commissioned by Metropolis. The concert also featured a premiere from Anna Clyne and a work by Andrew Norman. 
2010I found it by the sea
Americas Society hosted an interactive chamber concert, including the New York premiere of Timo Andres’ “I found it by the sea,” Brahms’ Piano Quartet in G-minor, Op. 25 that inspired Timo’s work, a new string quartet from Anna Clyne, and a Renaissance work for recorder and string quartet from John Dowland arranged by David Bruce.