Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes has a smiling, generous air about him—even when he's been pulled into a radio studio, after dark, to get bounced back and forth between a Steinway and an inquisitive host.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brought Dvorak’s sprawling 1889 rarity to New York with committed playing and interpretive wisdom.

By Zachary Woolfe The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes brought Dvorak’s sprawling 1889 rarity to New York with committed playing and interpretive wisdom. By Joshua Barone The pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is ...

The Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University has awarded Leif Ove Andsnes the $75,000 Jean Gimbel ...

Since his last Schubert Club solo recital in 2006, Norway’s Leif Ove Andsnes has emerged as one of the 21st century’s premier pianists. So it’s no surprise that St. Paul’s Ordway Music ...

Leif Ove Andsnes Releases New Album FRANZ LISZT: VIA CRUCIS & SOLO PIANO WORKS This April The new album, Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works, is set for release on April 11, 2025 and available ...

Last night, Leif Ove Andsnes began his recital at Carnegie Hall with Grieg’s Piano Sonata (the only one he ever wrote). Did Andsnes do this because he wanted to? Or because he had to? What do I mean?

Leif Ove Andsnes began what he called his "Beethoven Journey" many years ago, and it was interrupted by a few life-changing events, like the birth of a child. We'll hear how he reached the ...

Yet Andsnes’s sturdy, direct, immaculately even-tempered, playing united these disparate territories, and even stamped his Debussy encore with the same robust character. Fans of a more nebulous, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Touring musicians have been making some difficult decisions about whether to proceed with their U.S. engagements lately, and Leif Ove Andsnes is no exception. “It’s with ...

Andsnes is a player of considerable power, especially as it all comes from the forearms, and he really engages with the mechanics of the instrument, exploiting all its physical properties, from the ...

On his latest album Liszt: Via Crucis & Solo Piano Works for Sony Classical, Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes unveils the often-forgotten side of the famed virtuoso Franz Liszt - the sacred ...