“Andy Manndorff is one of the most interesting and uncompromising guitar players in Europe. His music is exemplary for the fact that true artistic ingenuity does not know any styilistical nor organisatorical boundaries.” Jazzforum (Poland)

“Andy Manndorff is one of these musicians who have stopped looking at Jazz as an American export article. His aesthetics are based on his own cultural and biographical identity. He is a true stylist who has developed something like his own musical language.” Jazzthetik (Germany)

“What makes Manndorff so interesting as a guitarist is the fact that he just cannot be classified. Sometimes there is a trace of John Scofield, Bill Frisell or even Jim Hall, but the result always sounds completely authentic.” NRC-Handelsblad (Netherlands)

With his stunning and headstrong playing technique Manndorff has developed an unmistakable style and one of the most distinctive sounds in the international guitar discourse. In whatever musical idiom Andy Manndorff moves, he never loses himself in virtuosity as an end in itself. He is always mindful to leave himself and his musicians enough space to explore new paths and byways. 

Born in Vienna, he lived and worked in Amsterdam from 1980 to 1988, then in New York until 1995. Since his return to Vienna in 1995 Andy Manndorff has concentrated on his own projects, from solo performances to projects that deal with a tightrope walk between composition and spontaneous intuition. In these works he frequently refers to Jewish - Viennese composers of the 20th century. He has written chamber music, musical theater and an opera for the “Künstlerhaus”  in Vienna. Manndorff has done extensive touring all over Europe, Russia, India, the US and Africa. He has collaborated with Vienna Art Orchestra, Dave Liebman, Wolfgang Puschnig, Bob Moses, Bobby Previte, Herb Robertson, Stomu Takeishi, Jasper van 't Hof, Jamaladeen Tacuma, Kenny Wollesen, Mike Sarin, Wolfgang Reisinger, Peter Herbert, Karnataka College of Percussion...