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LEIF OVE ANDSNES RECITAL TOUR “RETURNING TO NORWEGIAN ROOTS”

LEIF OVE ANDSNES RECITAL TOUR “RETURNING TO NORWEGIAN ROOTS”

Geirr Tveitt was a true radical born the year after Grieg died. Much of his music went up in flames but ”Andsnes has long been a champion of what remains.“ (Gramophone) PROGRAMME Schubert: Piano Sonata no. 14 in A minor, D.784 Tveitt: Piano Sonata no. 29 “Sonata...

ABOUT

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.” With his commanding technique and searching interpretations, the celebrated Norwegian pianist has won acclaim worldwide, playing concertos and recitals in the world’s leading concert halls and with its foremost orchestras, while building an esteemed and extensive discography. An avid chamber musician, he is the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, was co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades, and served as music director of California’s Ojai Music Festival in 2012. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in July 2013, and has received honorary doctorates from Norway’s Universities of Bergen and Oslo and New York’s Juilliard School.

Two concertos figure prominently in Andsnes’s 2024-25 season. After recent performances of Beethoven’s “Emperor” Concerto with ensembles including the New York Philharmonic and London Symphony Orchestra, he reprises the work with Washington’s National Symphony Orchestra, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, and on tour with the Oslo Philharmonic. Similarly, after recent accounts of Rachmaninov’s Third with ensembles including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Pittsburgh Symphony, and Orchestre de Paris, he performs it at Baden-Baden’s Easter Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic, on a North European tour with Italy’s Grandhôtel Orchestra Toblach, and with the Rotterdam Philharmonic, Stuttgart Radio Symphony, and London Philharmonic Orchestras. To complete the concert season, he joins the Czech Philharmonic for Grieg’s Concerto, the Barcelona Symphony for a pairing of Haydn and Franck, and the NDR

CONCERT SCHEDULE

october

03oct8:15 pmRotterdam, Netherlands - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Rachmaninov

05oct8:00 pmHeerlen, Netherlands - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Rachmaninov

06oct7:00 pmBrussels, Belgium - Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra - Rachmaninov

10oct7:00 pmWashington, DC USA - National Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven

11oct11:30 amWashington, DC USA - National Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven

13oct3:00 pmWashington, DC USA - National Symphony Orchestra - Beethoven

25oct7:00 pmOslo, Norway - Oslo Philharmonic - Beethoven

30oct7:30 pmVienna, Austria - Oslo Philharmonic - Beethoven

november

01nov8:00 pmHamburg, Germany - Oslo Philharmonic - Beethoven

07nov7:30 pmRome, Italy - Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Beethoven

08nov8:30 pmRome, Italy - Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Beethoven

09nov6:00 pmRome, Italy - Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Beethoven

14nov8:00 pmStuttgart, Germany - Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov

15nov8:00 pmStuttgart, Germany - Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov

17nov7:00 pmFreiburg im Breisgau - Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra - Rachmaninov

28nov10:00 amLeipzig, Germany - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Beethoven

28nov7:30 pmLeipzig, Germany - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Beethoven

29nov7:30 pmLeipzig, Germany - Gewandhausorchester Leipzig - Beethoven

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