Born in Johannesburg, South Africa and studied piano in Cologne and Berlin with Günter Ludwig and Pascal Devoyon, Andreas Kern’ activities as a concert pianist have taken him throughout Europe, North America, Hong Kong, China, Japan, India and South Africa as a soloist and chamber music partner.

In addition to various master classes, jury memberships and teaching activities at home and abroad, Andreas Kern was already intensively involved with the idea of presenting classical music to a new, younger audience in a contemporary way during his studies. He developed new concert formats through which he successfully presented classical music at new venues, thus opening up new listening worlds for his audiences.

Andreas tours regularly with his Piano Battle “opponent” Paul Cibis, wowing audiences around the world: sold-out halls in Europe, the USA and Asia - there, among others, at the Shanghai Oriental Arts Center, Seoul Arts Center, National Taipei Concert Hall or at an open air with over 6,000 fans in Taiwan.

His Berlin festival contribution was PIANO CITY® in 2010, where the city was immersed in music over a weekend of 100 piano concerts. Since 2012 Piano City continues annually in Lecce, Milan, Naples, Novi Sad, Madrid and many other cities with up to 400 concerts and is growing in popularity.