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Andreas Kern was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and studied piano in Cologne and Berlin with Günter Ludwig and Pascal Devoyon. His activities as a concert pianist have taken him throughout Europe, Canada, 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.
For the TV station ZDF/Arte Kern created the successful and Grimme Award nominated TV program "Arte Lounge". As co-host and pianist of the program, he regularly played music in a Berlin club with musicians such as Mischa Maisky, Renaud and Gautier Capucon, Sol Gabetta, Sarah Chang, Vadim Repin, Nils Mönkemeyer, Elina Garanca, Jörg Widmann and many others.
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 Milan, Naples, Novi Sad and many other cities with up to 400 concerts and is growing in popularity.
His concert show Piano Battle was only planned as a one-time adventure, but on its first appearance at the Hong Kong City Festival in 2010, Piano Battle wowed audiences so much that more invitations followed. Gradually, this unusual concert project established itself in the international classical music scene and played in front of 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.
Also in his home country Germany Andreas Kern had the opportunity to duel with his "opponent" Paul Cibis in the Piano Battle in relevant classical temples and festivals - e.g. the Tonhalle Düsseldorf, the Liederhalle Stuttgart, the Prinzregententheater Munich, the Philharmonie Berlin, the Beethovenfest Bonn, the Rheingau Music Festival or the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival.