Andy Feldbau, Piano

Biography

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, and the Ashdod Symphony.  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, and Jerusalem Theatre, as well as playing live broadcasts on WQXR in New York and on Israel Radio. 

In earlier seasons, Mr. Feldbau won First Prize in the American Protégé International Piano Competition, and various competitions in Israel and Russia. Mr. Feldbau 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 for piano concertos by Mozart, Haydn and Rachmaninov.  

Mr. Feldbau was the personal assistant to the Israeli composer Gil Shohat.  He recently received his Master’s degree from The Juilliard School, where he studied with Julian Martin, and currently studies with Pavlina Dokovska.