Andrew Zolinsky’s unique style of programming and his individual
interpretations have secured worldwide performances at many
prestigious venues and festivals. His work with living composers
brings a vivid freshness, energy and passion to his interpretations
of music from previous eras. Andrew’s repertoire ranges from Bach
to the present day and reflects his passion for introducing his
audiences to some great but neglected music.
He has performed with major orchestras, including the BBC Symphony
Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra
of Wales, London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra, London
Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra Ireland and the
Orchestre National de Lorraine (Orchestre National de Metz Grand
Est), and has worked with many distinguished conductors including
Stefan Asbury, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jonathan Bloxham, Martyn
Brabbins, Baldur Brönnimann, Olari Elts, Diego Masson, Ryan
McAdams, Jamie Philips, Andre De Ridder, David Robertson, and
Pascal Rophe.
Andrew is widely known for his deep and probing interpretations of
the mainstream repertoire, and for his programming of the
less-often performed areas of the piano repertoire.
As a noted performer of contemporary music, Andrew is very closely
associated with the music of Unsuk Chin, one of the finest
composers of our time. He has performed her complete Etudes for
solo piano on many occasions, including the French (Festival
Musica in Strasbourg), London (Wigmore Hall) and Italian (Venice
Biennale) premieres. Andrew also gave the London première of her
Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Miguel
Harth-Bedoya, and in April 2025, he gave the Irish premiere with
the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Olari Elts
at the New Music Dublin Festival.
As part of the BBC’s ‘Total immersion’ series in 2011, Andrew gave
the UK premiere of her Double Concerto with percussionist Owen
Gunnell and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Stefan Asbury at
the Barbican Centre.
Andrew has also worked closely with the American composer David
Lang. He has given World and regional premieres of many of David
Lang’s works, including the world premiere in New York of the
complete set of Memory pieces. Lang’s beautiful piano piece ‘This
was written by hand’ was written especially for Andrew; he has
recorded both this and the Memory Pieces on the Cantaloupe label.
In addition to Lang and Chin, Andrew has been closely associated
with and, on many occasions, performed works by Carla Bley, Linda
Buckley, Laurence Crane, Donnacha Dennehy, Michael Finnissy,
Michael Zev Gordon, Simon Holt, Deirdre McKay, Anna Meredith,
Valentin Silvestrov, Karen Tanaka, Anna Thorvaldsdottir and
Judith Weir; Buckley, Finnissy, Zev Gordon and Holt have written
and dedicated pieces to him.
As a chamber musician, Andrew has worked with the Belcea Quartet,
the Vanbrugh Quartet, Emily Beynon, Krzysztof Chorzelski, Michael
Collins, Benjamin Marquise Gilmore, Andrew Haveron and Daniel
Hope.
Andrew has performed at most of the major UK venues, and at
Merkin Hall, Brooklyn Academy of Music and Le Poisson Rouge in New
York, the Venice Biennale, International Piano series at London’s
Southbank Centre, Piano Rarities Festival in Husum, Germany and
in China, the Czech Republic, Iceland, Ireland, Japan, Lithuania,
Mexico, Spain, Taiwan and Canada.
Recent season’s highlights included a BBC Radio Three recording with
the BBCNOW conducted by Jonathan Bloxham of a previously
un-recorded Piano Concerto written in 1938 by Johanna Senfter, a
former student of Max Reger.
Future concerts include performances in London, Ireland, New York
and Poland.
In addition to his performing career, Andrew is professor of piano
at the Royal College of Music, London, and holds the position of
Chair in Piano at Forum Musikae, in Madrid.
