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Performances > Jeffrey Grogan Conducts > Artist Information - Andrew von Oeyen
Andrew von Oeyen 
American conductor Jeffrey Grogan continues as Education and Community Engagement Conductor for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In addition to leading the NJSO in a variety of concerts each season, he is also a frequent host of the “Classical Conversations” and “Post-Concert Chats” series.His humanistic leadership style, coupled with a strong command of skills as a musical communicator, has earned him an impressive reputation with audiences and music programs throughout the country. Considering his work with young musicians as one of the cornerstones of his career, Grogan currently continues this commitment with the Greater Newark Youth Orchestra. During his final season with the Ithaca College Orchestras, he collaborated with several colleagues to present the 2006 Gospel Music Festival. Over one hundred African-American students from the Washington D.C., New York City and Syracuse areas participated. Prior to his appointment with the NJSO, Grogan was Director of Orchestras and Associate Professor at the Ithaca College School of Music (New York). In addition to leading Ithaca’s graduate orchestral conducting program, he took the orchestra to its Avery Fisher Hall debut in April of 2005 and led the ensemble in its most recent concert programs in the United Kingdom. This season, he will appear with the Reno Philharmonic Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the American Festival for the Arts Orchestra, the Texas All-State Orchestra, Indiana University, Lamar University, among other engagements nationwide. Grogan’s dedication to new music manifests itself through recent collaborations with Robert Beaser, Michael Colgrass, Michael Daugherty, Karel Husa, Roberto Sierra and Dana Wilson. In 2004, the Ithaca College Symphony Orchestra commissioned and gave the world premiere of Scott McAllister’s Music from the Redneck Songbook, a work inspired by life in the American south. Grogan was previously on faculty at the University of Michigan and at Baylor University. He has served as conductor and music director of the Waco Symphony Youth Orchestra, as well as assistant conductor and lecturer for the Waco Symphony Orchestra. Grogan is a graduate of Stephen F. Austin State University and the University of Michigan. Andrew von Oeyen has already established himself as one of the most captivating pianists of his generation. Since his debut at age 17 with the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Esa-Pekka Salonen, von Oeyen has performed to critical acclaim in recital and orchestral appearances around the world. Recent concert highlights include Mr. von Oeyen`s return to London’s Wigmore Hall after his successful 2004 recital debut there. He also returned to the Gilmore International Keyboard Festival, where he won the prestigious Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1999, to the Spoleto Festival where he played and conducted to great acclaim, and to the Detroit Symphony for a subscription week. He made his debuts with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony and the Grant Park Festival. In 2006-2007, Mr. von Oeyen performs the Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1 with the San Francisco Symphony and the New Mexico Symphony, a subscription week with the Philadelphia Orchestra (Rach/Pag), the Liszt 1 with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Barber with the Utah Symphony, the Beethoven 1 with the Hartford Symphony, the Rachmaninoff No. 2 with the Virginia Symphony and the Stamford Symphony, the Beethoven 4 with the Bratislava Philharmonic, and the Gershwin “Rhapsody in Blue” in Tuscaloosa. He performs recitals at the Kennedy Center and in Detroit and Fresno. In recent seasons, Mr. von Oeyen has performed with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Saint Louis Symphony, the Seattle Symphony and the Singapore Symphony and has appeared in recital at Ravinia and in France at the “Piano en Valois” Festival. In addition to the Gilmore Young Artist Award in 1999, Mr. von Oeyen took First Prize in the first Lení Fé Bland Foundation National Piano Competition in 2001. Mr. von Oeyen began his piano studies at age 5 and made his solo orchestral debut at age ten. A recent graduate of The Juilliard School, where his principal teachers were Herbert Stessin and Jerome Lowenthal, he has also worked with Alfred Brendel and Leon Fleisher. Mr. von Oeyen`s performances have been broadcast on National Public Radio and he has been a featured guest on NPR’s “Performance Today.” Mr. von Oeyen lives in New York City. |
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