Andrew von Oeyen (born November 12, 1979) is an American classical pianist.
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He began piano lessons at age five in Los Angeles with Sara Banta 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. In 1998, after graduating from high school at Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences in Santa Monica, California, he moved to New York City to study at the Juilliard School and Columbia University, where his teachers were Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal. He also worked privately with Alfred Brendel and Leon Fleisher.
Von Oeyen has performed extensively in recital and orchestral appearances around the world. He has appeared as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Detroit Symphony, National Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony, Saint Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Utah Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Slovenian and Slovak Philharmonics, among others. He has performed in recital at Wigmore Hall and Barbican Hall in London, Lincoln Center in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, Zürich's Tonhalle, Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, Grand Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Boston Symphony Hall, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Santa Fe, Bologna, Bucharest, Hanoi, Macao and in all the major concert halls of Japan and 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) and "Piano en Valois" (France). He has also toured extensively with violinist Sarah Chang throughout Europe, the United States and Asia.
On July 4, 2009, von Oeyen performed at the U.S. Capitol with the National Symphony Orchestra in "A Capitol Fourth," reaching millions worldwide in the PBS live telecast.
He won the Bronislaw Kaper Award from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1996, the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1999, and also took First Prize in the Leni Fe Bland Foundation National Piano Competition in 2001.
Andrew von Oeyen lives in New York and Paris.