Tyler Wottrich

class of '02, '03, '04, '05 and alumni performer at the Madeline Island Music Camp's 25th Anniversary Celebration in 2010, was invited to join the Academy (Ensemble ACJW) in New York from 2012 to 2014. Wottrich will perform in varied chamber groups at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall with other members of the Academy from Juilliard and Stony Brook.

Pianist Tyler Wottrich has developed a successful and multi-faceted career as both a soloist and chamber musician. As a soloist he has appeared with the Minnesota Youth Symphonies playing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” and been a prizewinner in the Thursday Musical and Mechelke competitions, as well as the PianoArts national competition. As a collaborative pianist, Wottrich has performed numerous recitals throughout the United States and Europe, appearing with such artists as flutist Keith Underwood, violinist Yair Kless, members of the African-American choral group Sounds of Blackness, and with Nina Ananiashvili, Bolshoi Ballet prima ballerina and Director of the Georgian National Ballet. Wottrich’s collaboration with the Georgian National Ballet in March 2008 received a glowing review in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune: “Pianist Tyler Wottrich was fearless in Stravinsky’s Duo Concertante, and he played Bizet’s Variations Chromatiques lovingly.” Wottrich began his studies with Gail Olszewski and continued on to study with Distinguished McKnight Professor Lydia Artymiw at the University of Minnesota. Tyler Wottrich graduated from the University of Minnesota summa cum laude in May 2009 with degrees in both piano performance and mathematics. He is currently pursuing a Master of Music degree at SUNY Stony Brook, studying with Gilbert Kalish.