BIOGRAPHY
A native of Wisconsin, USA, Eoin Andersen began violin lessons at the age of 5. HIs teachers have included Sr. Noraleen Retinger, Gerald Fischbach, David Taylor, Efim Boico, and Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. He studied film production and arts management at New York University and graduated in 2000.
He made his concerto debut with the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. He has also performed the concertos of Mozart, Mendelssohn, and Piazolla with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Beethoven Triple concerto with the Shanghai Symphony, and the New Zealand premiere of Esa- Pekka Salonen’s Violin Concerto with the Christchurch Symphony. As a former member of the Mark Morris Dance Group Music Ensemble, he toured the US and Europe performing chamber works of Schumann and Bartók among others.
Eoin has performed as Guest Concertmaster of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the RTÉ National Symphony of Ireland, the Royal Northern Sinfonia, and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, and as Guest Principal with the Mahler and Australian Chamber Orchestras, Zurich Chamber Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio Symphony, and frequently with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He has recorded extensively in the Sinfonia of London, as well as toured with the John Wilson Orchestra.
He was a long-time member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. As a founding member and director of the Mahler Chamber Soloists, he performed in South America and throughout Europe, and has collaborated with the pianist Fazıl Say, the choreographer Sasha Waltz, soprano Anna Prohaska, Kristian Winther, Daniel Blendulf, Maximillian Hornung, Jeremy Denk, Simone Dinnerstein, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and Ian Bostridge. He has made chamber music performances at the Aspen, Tanglewood, and Sarasota Festivals in the United States, and at the Il de Re Festival in Bordeaux, in Aix-en Provence, in a Pacific Music Festival sponsored tour of Japan, at the Lucerne Festival, at the Canberra International Festival, and at the ICMF Wassenaar in the Netherlands, among others.
Eoin was Principal Second Violin of the Orchester der Öper Zürich from 2011-2018. He became Concertmaster of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra in 2015, where he performed until leaving that position in 2018.