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- Andrew von Oeyen (born November 12, 1979) is an American classical pianist. He began piano lessons at age five 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 to study at the Juilliard School and Columbia University. 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, Saint Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Singapore Symphony, Utah Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Chicago's Grant Park Festival Orchestra, Slovak Philharmonic, and the National Symphony Orchestra among others. He has given recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Ravinia Festival and throughout Japan. During the 2009-2010 season he will tour Japan with the Berliner Symphoniker and in recital; he will also tour with Sarah Chang across Europe (London's Barbican Center, Dublin's National Concert Hall, Zurich's Tonhalle, Moscow and St. Petersburg), the United States and Asia. Other festival engagements include Aspen, Grand Teton, Spoleto Festival USA, Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, Bellingham, Festival del Sole and France's "Piano en Valois. " On July 4, 2009, von Oeyen performed at the U. S. Capitol with the National Symphony in "A Capitol Fourth," reaching millions worldwide in the multi-award winning PBS telecast. Von Oeyen was the 1999 recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award and won First Prize in the Lení Fé Bland Foundation National Competition in 2001. His performances have been televised and broadcast on PBS and National Public Radio, and he has been a featured guest on their programme 'Performance Today'. His teachers include Sara Banta, Herbert Stessin, Jerome Lowenthal, Alfred Brendel and Leon Fleisher. Andrew von Oeyen lives in New York and Paris.
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