Andy Feldbau Pianist

“Andy Feldbau, who phrased with nuance and expressive rubato, showed an instinctive taste for the style of this region and period – romantic with a cool edge.”

The New York Times (Nov. 2011)

"Andy Feldbau’s performance was not just technically impressive but mature and beautifully shaped. The slow themes were played with gorgeous lyricism and just the right amount of rubato; the runs were glittering, light and fast as the wind, with every note fully articulated; the big, thundering passages were plenty big and thundering... an amazing, theatrical performance that left the audience bug-eyed".

Vanity Fair Magazine (Dec. 2010)

Young rising star pianist and composer Andy Feldbau has been an active figure in the music world, performing concertos (using his own cadenzas) as orchestral soloist with the Los Angeles Jewish Symphony, The Israeli Sinfonietta, the Holon Stage Orchestra, Beer Sheva Sinfonietta, and with the Ashdod Orchestra amongst others. He has given solo recitals at New York’s Carnegie Hall, Los Angeles’ Ford Theatre, London's Steinway Hall, The Juilliard School's Paul Hall, Tel Aviv Museum of Arts, Clairmont Hall and Jerusalem Theatre, as well as playing live broadcasts on WQXR in New York and on Israel Radio. This spring of 2011, Mr. Feldbau has been invited to be the featured artist at major venues in London, Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich. This season 2011/2012, Andy Feldbau participated at festivals in New York City - "Liszt, a Life in Music" and "Schumann and Chopin." He also toured in the US, performing in major cities and venues including Washington, DC, Chicago (Preston Bradley Hall, broadcast live by WFMT Fine Arts Radio), and in New York’s Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (Nov. 2011). He again appeared in Carnegie Weill Recital Hall in Dec. 2011 in a program of Franz Liszt.

In earlier seasons, Mr. Feldbau won First Prize in the American Protégé International Piano Competition, and various competitions in Israel and Russia. He received scholarships for excellence awarded by the America-Israel Culture Fund which enabled him to continue his studies in the USA and Israel. He has received additional Merit Scholarships from The Juilliard School, full scholarships from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music, and scholarships awarded by The Hebrew Free Loan Society, Susan W. Rose, The Kamiya Sisters, The Celia and Joseph Ascher Fund, and Marilyn Hochberg Hammerman.

Mr. Feldbau has participated in master classes in composition under Richard Goode, Ann Schein, Leslie Howard, Staffan Scheja, Alon Goldstein, Daniel Hoechster and Gilad Mishori. He has composed many pieces for piano, most of which he has performed and recorded. He has also created pieces for choir and piano, various solo instruments, chamber music, orchestrations and numerous solo piano virtuoso arrangements for Broadway and Disney songs. In addition he has composed and performed various cadenzas to piano concertos of Mozart, Haydn and Rachmaninov.

Mr. Feldbau was personal assistant to the Israeli composer Gil Shohat. He recently received his Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Mr. Julian Martin, and currently studies with Mrs. Pavlina Dokovska. In 2008 he received his Bachelor's degree from the Buchman-Mehta School of Music at Tel Aviv University as a student of Prof. Emanuel Krasovsky. Mr. Feldbau is a native of Israel and presently resides in New York.