English pianist Andrew Harley enjoys a performing and teaching career recognized at both the national and international level. Specializing in both instrumental chamber music and song literature, he has been heard in live broadcasts on national radio and television, as well as on numerous CD recordings. Andrew began his musical studies at the famous Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, England, and continued his education at Oxford University, the Royal Northern College of Music and the University of Southern California. Since emigrating to America, he has held positions at the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, the University of California Santa Barbara, the International Institute for Young Musicians and The Music Academy of the West. He has been invited to join the faculty at both the American Institute of Musical Studies in Graz as well as the University of Miami Summer Program in Salzburg. In 2005, he gave his Carnegie Hall debut and in March 2007, he made his Washington debut at The Library of Congress. In addition to the Garth Newel Piano Quartet, Andrew is one of two collaborative pianists at the Kamp-Lintfort International Chamber Music Festival in Düsseldorf, a position he has held for the past four years. In a recent recital in Germany, The Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung described him as “a soloist who understands how to blend within an ensemble with excellence, yet without subjugating himself. Pearls of gold met with a diamond.”