Andrea Neumann (born 1968 in Freiburg) is a German musician and composer. She studied classical piano at Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin.
Since 1996, she is primarily active as improviser and composer in the areas of experimental and new music. In the process of exploring the piano for new sound possibilities, she has reduced the instrument to strings, resonance board and metal frame. With the help of electronics to manipulate and amplify the sounds (sometimes to make parts of the sound audible which are inaudible without amplification), she has developed numerous new playing techniques, sounds, and ways of preparing the dismantled instrument.
Andrea Neumann has worked intensively in the crossover area between composition and improvisation, and in the field between electronic and handmade sounds, with international musicians such as Annette Krebs, Ignaz Schick,
Axel Dörner,
Sven-Åke Johansson,
Robin Hayward, Burkhard Beins, Toshimaru Nakamura, Ignaz Schick,
Christopher A. Williams, Sachiko M,
Ivan Palacký,
Sophie Agnel,
Bertrand Gauguet,
Martin Tétreault,
Mads Emil Nielsen, etc. She has composed for inside piano for interdisciplinary projects including film, dance and performance.
