Andrew Nguyen is an award winning pianist and collaborative artist studying piano under the Marjorie and Robert Rawlins Scholarship with Professor Nina Scolnik at the University of Irvine, California. He has been the top recipients at competitions, including the 2024 Sigma Iota Alpha Scholarship Competition, Kathryn Gawartin Chopin Competition (twice), Lansum International Music Festival, Southwestern Youth Music Festival, CAPMT Honors Competition, MIMA Young Artist Competition, and the Southern California Junior Bach Festival. In February 2018, he was the youngest prizewinner in the Senior Division of the Kathryn Gawartin Competition.
Andrew has also been featured in notable performances, including Women at the Piano, UCI Honor's Recital, Upper Bay Philharmonic Society of OC. He was also a participant at the Borromeo Music Festival studying with Oberlin professor Angela Cheng. He has also participated in masterclasses with Oxana Yablonskaya, Stewart Gordon, Sharon Mann, Julio Elizalde, and Angela Cheng.