Having finished his studies at the Juilliard School, Haefliger soon thereafter performed with the major American and European orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouworkest and Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
He made his New York recital debut in 1988 and has since performed regularly at the Lucerne and Edinburgh Festivals, Vienna Konzerthaus and Wigmore Hall. He has formed several key partnerships, most recently with violinist Hilary Hahn, with whom he has performed Beethoven and Brahms sonatas in London, Vienna, Tokyo, Seoul and Chicago. In 2024 Andreas and his wife the distinguished flautist Marina Piccinini inaugurated their new Zauberklang Festival, inviting special guests including Hilary Hahn and Ian Bostridge to perform in intimate surroundings high in the Swiss Alps.
In Autumn 2021 BIS (with whom Haefliger has an exclusive contract) released his recording of the Beethoven op.31 sonatas, and in Autumn 2022 he recorded the Pathetique and op.10 sonatas. In 2019 BIS released Haefliger’s first ever concerto disc – the world premiere recording of Dieter Ammann’s Gran Toccata with Susanna Malkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic, coupled with Bartok and Ravel concerti. It was co-commissioned for Haefliger by Boston together with the Munich Philharmonic, Lucerne Festival, Taipei Symphony and Wiener Konzerthaus, where he gave the much-postponed Austrian premiere in January 2024 with the Wiener Symphoniker and Malkki. In 2025 he performed the Ammann at the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie with the Basel Sinfonietta.
Haefliger began his career with Sony Classical recording Mozart sonatas followed by Schumann Davidsbündlertanze and Fantasiestücke, Schubert Impromptus, and music by Sofia Gubaidulina. Later he recorded for Decca with the Takács Quartet and also Matthias Goerne, with whom he won the Preis Der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for Schubert’s Goethe Songs; he subsequently recorded a recital disc for BIS with Marina Piccinini.
