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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 ...
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 ...
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?
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 ...
A few years ago Leif Ove Andsnes revisited Beethoven's Piano Concertos on what he called his "Beethoven Journey." We'll hear the second step with his performance of the Concerto No. 2 during our ...
The phenomenal Dover Quartet is joined by Norway’s foremost pianist Leif Ove Andsnes to perform piano quintets by Brahms, Dohnányi, and Joaquín Turina. Named one of the greatest string ...
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 ...
For whatever reason – possibly not least the very practical one of having two pianists the calibre of Norwegian Leif Ove Andsnes and Frenchman Bertrand Chamayou in the same place at the same ...
He won’t do anything else.” “Leif Ove” is, of course, Leif Ove Andsnes, the eminent Norwegian pianist (b. 1970). He played a recital in Carnegie Hall on Tuesday night. If his program was “political,” ...
The New York Times calls Leif Ove Andsnes “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight,” and the Wall Street Journal names him “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” ...