[Postponed] Timo Andres, piano

You'll see composer/pianist Timo Andres on multiple San Francisco Performances concerts this season, and with good reason. He's an engagingly versatile artist with a gift for connecting with audiences to break down traditional stuffy barriers to enjoying great music. For example, he thinks you should clap whenever you want to, "As long as it's not in a super beautiful quiet part!" Andres' notable works include Everything Happens So Much for the Boston Symphony; Strong Language for the Takacs Quartet, commissioned by Carnegie Hall and the Shriver Hall Concert Series; Steady Hand, a two-piano concerto commissioned by the Britten Sinfonia premiered at the Barbican by Andres and David Kaplan; and The Blind Banister, a concerto for Jonathan Biss, which was a 2016 Pulitzer Prize Finalist. As a pianist, Timo Andres has appeared with the LA Phil, North Carolina Symphony, the Albany Symphony, New World Symphony, and in many collaborations with Andrew Cyr and Metropolis Ensemble. He has performed solo recitals for Lincoln Center, Wigmore Hall, San Francisco Performances, the Phillips Collection, and (le) Poisson Rouge. Collaborators include Becca Stevens, Jeffrey Kahane, Gabriel Kahane, Brad Mehldau, Nadia Sirota, the Kronos Quartet, John Adams, and Philip Glass, with whom he has performed the complete Glass Etudes around the world, and who selected Andres as the recipient of the City of Toronto Glenn Gould Protege Prize.