Andrew Nesler has been a featured performer at international concert series and festivals, recently appearing at the Gene Marcus Piano Camp and Festival (Fort Wayne, IN, US), the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest (Reno, NV, US), The Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA, US), Penarth Chamber Music Festival (Penarth, UK), on live television for BBC Cardiff Singer of the World (Cardiff, UK), and Llandaff Cathedral (Llandaff, UK). Among awards he’s received are two First Prizes at the Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Concerto Competition, Moving Classics TV’s “Composer of the Week” (Munich, Germany), and First Prize at the John Ireland Competition (Cardiff). His recent and upcoming highlights include a three-part series of Prokofiev's "war" sonatas with works by Beethoven and others (Fort Wayne, IN, US), William Mathias's second piano concerto with the Manchester Symphony Orchestra as their 2025-2026 Guest Artist in Residence (Warsaw, IN, US), and Prokofiev and Scriabin sonatas at the Friends of Music Concert Series (Memphis, TN, US).

   An ardent collaborator, he currently serves as Music Director for Transgress Opera (Cardiff), and has worked closely with the Bach Collegium, Opera Today!, and Heartland Sings in Fort Wayne. In addition to his work with vocalists, he has enjoyed other projects including shadow puppetry, silent film, up to 24 pianists altogether at once, chamber music, piano duo, wind ensemble, and ballet. As an educator, he co-authored and administered two music education curricula that reached over 1,000 young and disabled students in schools in underserved areas over three years in Fort Wayne, has given masterclasses and coached in the US and UK, and has adjudicated pre-college competitions. He is proud to be a Lecturer in Music at Purdue University Fort Wayne, a position he has held since 2024.

   He holds a MMus (Distinction) in Piano Performance from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and a B.M. in Piano Performance from Purdue University Fort Wayne, having received scholarships to both institutions. His primary teachers have included Mei Yi Foo (RWCMD) and Dr. Hamilton Tescarollo (PFW), and he has coached with pianists including Alessio Bax, Fabio Bidini, William Bolcom, Alison Bowring, Jayson Gillham, Stewart Goodyear, Robin Green, Qing Jiang, James Kirby, Louis Lortie, Steven Osborne, Charles Owen, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Zoe Smith, Boris Slutsky, Yu-Lien The, Orion Weiss, Llŷr Williams, Terrence Wilson, Ilya Yakushev, and Michael Young. As a collaborative pianist, he has coached with David Doidge, Nuccia Focile, Mary King, Simon Lepper, Steven Mackey, Simon Phillippo, Helen Sanderson, Rebecca Selley, Anna Tilbrook, and Cordelia Williams, and has accompanied coachings with Lucille Chung, Nicole Leupp Hanig, Stephen Marsden, and Pinchas Zukerman, among others.