Andrea Vasi (1989) was born in Voorburg, the Netherlands. She started playing the piano at age six, and was accepted at the ‘Young Talent School’ of the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague four years later. Here she studied with Marlies van Gent. In this period, at the age of fourteen, she won 1st prize, Press prize and the Public award at the national finals of the Princess Christina Competition (as a duo with violinist Sumire Hara), and as a result of this she performed in Carnegie Hall, New York (USA). Two years later, she won again, this time as a duo with violinist Noa Eyl. Again, she performed in Carnegie Hall, and was followed by a Dutch television program called ‘Young Musicians on the way to the concert stage’, presented by Antonie Kamerling.

In the same year, 2006, she was a finalist of the Steinway Competition in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam (as a soloist). In 2012, she won the ‘Musico Lied competition’ in Amsterdam, together with soprano Ellen Valkenburg.

Andrea made concert tours through France, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, the USA, Canada, India (with violinist Bas Treub and soprano Nora Fischer) and Argentina (with violinist Maxime Gulikers and soprano Laetitia Gerards). Many of her concerts were broadcasted on radio and/or television. She was a special guest at a.o. the Gergiev Festival (Rotterdam) and the Grachtenfestival (Amsterdam)

After graduating high school (VWO), she started her Bachelor of Music studies at the same conservatoire, under prof. Ellen Corver. Together with Corver, she performed regularly, during the Pianosalon series of the NJO (2009-2013), a.o. performing Bartók’s sonata for two piano’s and percussion in the big hall of the Vereeniging in Nijmegen. Also, they played together in the ‘Master and Acquaintance’ series of the Royal Conservatoire, in which famous musicians perform (and are interviewed) together with their pupil.

After her Bachelor graduation, she spent some months in India, doing volunteer work in orphanages (giving English, music and karate lessons) and following Buddhist education. Currently she is in the second year of her Master of Music studies, still with prof. Ellen Corver.
As a soloist, she performed piano concertos by Bach, Grieg, Ravel and Stravinsky, a.o. under conductor Etienne Siebens. She played in various orchestras and ensembles, also playing the synthesizer and the harpsichord. As a member of the NJO Steve Reich ensemble 2013 (of the NJO), she worked together with Steve Reich and gave a performance at the Lowlands Festival.

She attended master courses in the Netherlands, Italy and Austria, and had lessons with a.o. prof. Pascal Nemirovski (Royal Academy of Music, London), Boris Petrushansky and Ronald Brautigam (solo). In chamber music, she had lessons with the Osiris Trio, Philippe Graffin and Jaap van Zweden.
 
Andrea will be 'Young Artist in Residence' during the NJO Muziekzomer 2014, where she will perform a Romanian, a Shostakovich and a jazz program, as well as the third piano concerto in c by Ludwig van Beethoven (for more information: http://www.njo.nl/njo/njo/index.vm?pid=17).

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