The pianist Andrey Hovrin was born in Samara (Russia). After successfully attending the Samara Music High School, he began his piano studies at the Petrozavodsk Conservatory, graduating in 1994 with honors in piano (Prof. Ruvim Ostrovsky), chamber music and song accompaniment. From 1996 he continued his postgraduate studies in song accompaniment with Prof. Tatjana Bibikova in Petrozavodsk and from 2000 with Konrad Richter at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart.

As a song accompanist Andrej Hovrin travels throughout Europe and the USA. He accompanies at international singing courses, such as the Mozarteum Summer Academy in Salzburg, Härnösand Opera Academy (Sweden), Jeunesses Musicales Schloß Weikersheim (Germany), in Iceland, France, USA, Greece with renowned teachers such as.Inge Borkh, Richard Miller, Julia Hamari, George Shirley, Vladimir Chernov, Luba Orgonasova, Mya Besselink, Neil Semer, Roberta Cunningham, John Norris, Monika Bürgener, Michaela Krämer, Kerstin Schötteldreier, Thomas J. Meyer, Caroline Stein, Katrin Kapplusch, Abbie Furmansky, Thomas Michael Allen and many others. He accompanies the European Singing Competition DEBUT and the International Singing Competition of the Chamber Opera Schloß Weikersheim.

Guest performances have taken him to the Mainfrankentheater Würzburg, the Staatsoper Stuttgart, the Oper Schloß Weikerscheim, the Theater Hof, Theater am Goetheplatz Bremen, Aalto Theater Essen, the Kammeroper Schloß Rheinsberg, the Teatro Arriaga in Bilbao, Teatro Olimpko in Athens, National Theater in Abu-Dhabi and the Komische Oper.

Andrej Hovrin has recorded several CDs with songs by Brahms, Dvorak, Mussorgsky, Grieg, Sibelius, Rachmaninov, Berg, Bartok, Kodaly and Prokoffiev, which were released in Austria, Iceland and England. He was and is active as a lecturer at the music academies in Düsseldorf, Hanover, Petrozavodsk (Russia) and Würzburg.