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Have you heard of Geirr Tveitt?

Have you heard of Geirr Tveitt?

“Have you heard of Geirr Tveitt?” asked the French-based streaming platform Qobuz on Instagram this week. If you haven’t, that’s about to change. Leif Ove Andsnes’s new recording of Tveitt’s music features Sonata No. 29. It is the only sonata that survived a...

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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 was the founding director of the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, which presented its final season in summer 2025. He was also 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.

In the 2025-26 season, Andsnes joins the Oslo Philharmonic for the world premiere of a new piano concerto, written for him by his compatriot Ørjan Matre. Two more concertos figure prominently throughout the season. He performs Beethoven’s Third with the Atlanta Symphony, Chicago Symphony, Danish National Symphony, and Sweden’s Gothenburg Symphony, and plays Brahms’s Second with ensembles including the Spanish National Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, and Japan’s NHK Symphony. In recital, he returns to New York’s Carnegie Hall, Boston’s Celebrity Series, and three more U.S. destinations for works by Schumann, Janáček, and Kurtág, after opening Montreal’s Bourgie Hall season with a program of Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that also takes him to key cities in Brazil, Taiwan, and Japan. He completes the season with two chamber recital tours, joining violinist Christian Tetzlaff for sonatas by Mozart, Ravel, Brahms, and South Korea’s Donghoon Shin in London, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Bucharest, and collaborating with fellow pianist Bertrand Chamayou on duos by Schubert and Kurtág in Berlin, Brussels, Dijon, Madrid, Oslo, and Amsterdam. Andsnes’s Schubert four-hands recording with Chamayou is due for release on Warner Classics in fall 2025, and a solo album featuring music by Andsnes’s fellow countryman Geirr Tveitt is set to follow on the Simax label in spring 2026.

CONCERT SCHEDULE

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August 2026

Amsterdam, Netherlands – Televised Outdoor Concert

Performing with: Sol Gabetta, Cello, Maria Warenberg, voice PROGRAMME Leif Ove Andsnes, piano (solo) Grieg: Norwegian Dances, Op. 35; No. 2 in A Major, Allegretto Tranquillo e grazioso With young talent 2’17 Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Book 5, Op. 54; No. 2, Gangar 3’05 Sæverud: Tunes and Dances from Siljustol, Op.22 No. 5 Ballad of Revolt […]
22 Aug
8:00 pm
Prinsengracht at Hotel Pulitzer Amsterdam
Prinsengracht 323, 1016 GZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
September 2026

Bergen Norway – Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra – Brahms

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Rasmus Hella Mikkelsen, conductor Performing Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Programme also features: Berg: Nuances of Water Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 Venue note: Few composers unite intellect and emotion like Brahms, but the composer seems to surpass even himself in his Piano Concerto No 2, a work […]
24 Sep
7:30 pm
Grieghallen
Edvard Griegs Plass 1, 5015 Bergen
October 2026

Hamburg, Germany – Elbphilharmonie Residency – Boccherini and R. Schumann

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano Mitglieder des NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchesters Programme: Luigi Boccherini Klavierquintett e-Moll op. 57/3 Klavierquintett B-Dur op. 57/2 Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E-flat major, Op. 44 Venue note: Chamber music is a matter of heart for Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes. As the founder and director of the Rosendal Chamber Music […]
14 Oct
7:30 pm
Elbphilharmonie
German Reunion Square 4 · 20457 Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany – NDR Elbphilharmonie Tour – Brahms

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano NDR Elbphilharmonie Alan Gilbert, conductor Programme Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 Programme also includes: Claude Debussy: La mer / Three Symphonic Sketches Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / Fragments symphoniques, deuxième série Venue note: Auf Brahms ist kein Verlass – jedenfalls […]
15 Oct
8:00 pm
Elbphilharmonie
German Reunion Square 4 · 20457 Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany – NDR Elbphilharmonie Tour – Brahms

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano NDR Elbphilharmonie Alan Gilbert, conductor Programme Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 Programme also includes: Claude Debussy: La mer / Three Symphonic Sketches Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / Fragments symphoniques, deuxième série Venue note: Auf Brahms ist kein Verlass – jedenfalls […]
16 Oct
8:00 pm
Elbphilharmonie
German Reunion Square 4 · 20457 Hamburg

Hamburg, Germany – NDR Elbphilharmonie Tour – Brahms

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano NDR Elbphilharmonie Alan Gilbert, conductor Programme Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 Programme also includes: Claude Debussy: La mer / Three Symphonic Sketches Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / Fragments symphoniques, deuxième série Venue note: Auf Brahms ist kein Verlass – jedenfalls […]
18 Oct
1:30 pm
Elbphilharmonie
German Reunion Square 4 · 20457 Hamburg

Budapest, Hungary – NDR Elbphilharmonie Tour – Brahms

Performers Leif Ove Andsnes, piano NDR Elbphilharmonie Alan Gilbert, conductor Programme Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 83 Programme also includes: Claude Debussy: La mer / Three Symphonic Sketches Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / Fragments symphoniques, deuxième série Venue note: A leading symphony ensemble in Northern Germany, […]
21 Oct
Müpa Budapest
Budapest Komor Marcell u. 1 1095
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