Tyler Wottrich (T.Wottrich), Piano

Biography

Pianist Tyler Wottrich has developed a
multi-faceted career as soloist and chamber musician.  As a soloist he has appeared with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies
and the Chamber Orchestra of the Midwest 
He was a prizewinner in the Thursday Musical and Mechelke competitions,
as well as the PianoArts National Competition. 

As
a collaborative pianist, Mr. Wottrich has performed with such artists as Jorja
Fleezanis, Keith Underwood, Yair Kless, the Pacifica String Quartet, and members
of the African-American choral group Sounds of Blackness.  His collaboration with Nina Ananiashvili,
Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina and Director of the Georgian National Ballet in
March 2008 received a glowing review in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune:  "Wottrich was
fearless in Stravinsky's Duo Concertante,
and he played Bizet's Variations
Chromatiques lovingly." 

Tyler
Wottrich graduated summa cum laude from
the University of Minnesota in 2009 with degrees in both piano performance and
mathematics.  His piano studies there
were guided by Lydia Artymiw.  He
currently studies at SUNY Stony Brook with Gilbert Kalish.