Metropolis Radio: Mystical Services
Timo Andres shares songs for a kind of shared intensity of spirit they all seem to possess.
Timo Andres performs "Dark Days" and "Story of Our Town"
Pianist and composer Timo Andres performs from Brooklyn.
Time Travelers to Versailles
April 21, 2018 / World premieres from Timo Andres, Caroline Shaw, and a performance of Charpentier with Metropolis Ensemble and TENET early music ensemble.
New York Times: A Room-Size Painting Becomes a Cello Concerto About Versailles
Timo Andres’ piece, which features the cellist Inbal Segev performing with the Metropolis Ensemble, is based on John Vanderlyn’s “Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles” (1818-19), a massive painting on nearly 2,000 square feet of canvas that requires its own circular gallery in the Met’s American Wing.
Fifteen Questions with Inbal Segev
Inbal recommends the panoramic installation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that inspired composer Timo Andres to write a new cello concerto.
The New Yorker: Goings On — Time Travelers to Versailles
The MetLiveArts concert “Time Travelers to Versailles” with Metropolis and TENET is a featured event for The New Yorker.
5 Nights 11 Pianists
PIANO PHILHARMONIC: TIMO ANDRES, DAVID KAPLAN, ANDREW HSU AND MIKA EMILY SASAKI PILE ONTO THE PIANO BENCH TO PERFORM MUSIC ORIGINALLY FOR ORCHESTRA.
September 17, 2017
Celebrate: Metropolis Ensemble Turns Ten
Celebrate a decade of innovation in music with a roving party.
New York Times: Lending Mozart a Left Hand
The composer and pianist Timo Andres’s take on the “Coronation” (otherwise known as the Piano Concerto No. 26 in D) felt necessary — not a lark but a surprisingly moving dazzler.
Star Tribune: Composer Timo Andres Goes for the Beauty
His second record, last year’s “Home Stretch,” boldly fills in the absent left hand of Mozart’s “Coronation” Concerto and also offers up a 14-minute “Paraphrase on Themes of Brian Eno.”
Three Grammy Wins for the Metropolis Community!
The 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26, 2014 proved to be a stellar night for the artists and collaborators of Metropolis Ensemble in multiple winning categories!
NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2013
Home Stretch is a gentle gondola ride through five lovely Eno songs ... a clever, lovingly orchestrated homage in the time-honored spirit of Franz Liszt.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer: "Home Stretch" Review
In the reinvention of the Coronation Concerto on Home Stretch, Andres lets his imagination fill in the gaps, and creates a lovely amalgam of Mozartian classicism and modern pianistic sensibility.
Pasatiempo: Home Stretch Review
The different music on composer-pianist Timo Andres’ Home Stretch — a rhythmically modern piece for piano and chamber orchestra, a reimagination of Mozart’s Coronation concerto, and a “paraphrase” of themes written by an experimental, ambient musician — is an adventure in time, in terms of tempo and stylistic history.
WNYC Soundcheck: Timo Andres: Weaving Together Eno And Mozart
On his new album, Home Stretch, Andres plays off of works by Brian Eno and Mozart, matching his reinventions of those pieces with a composition of his own. The result is a buoyant and fascinating record.
The Guardian: "Home Stretch" Album
The centrepiece of this latest collection on Home Stretch is a perfect example of Andres's playful intelligence and individuality.