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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...
New Album: Geirr Tveitt: Sonata No. 29, Folk Tunes and Songs Available 24 April on SIMAX
When Leif Ove Andsnes featured the sole surviving piano sonata by his compatriot Geirr Tveitt at New York’s Carnegie Hall, The New York Times chose his recital as one of the “Best Classical Performances of 2025.” Now, Andsnes complements the sonata with a selection of...
Leif Ove Andsnes Gives World Premiere of Ørjan Matre’s Piano Concerto
Leif Ove Andsnes brings to life a new Piano Concerto, composed for him by his compatriot Ørjan Matre. After giving its world premiere performances with the Oslo Philharmonic and Danish conductor Thomas Søndergård (Feb 26 & 27), he undertakes the work with Edward...
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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
May 2026
Lisbon, Portugal – Gulbenkian Orchestra – Beethoven
Lisbon, Portugal – Gulbenkian Orchestra – Beethoven
London, UK – London Symphony Orchestra – Beethoven
Bamberg, Germany – Bamberger Symphoniker – Beethoven
Bamberg, Germany – Bamberger Symphoniker – Beethoven
June 2026
Arnhem, Netherlands – Recital
Groningen, Netherlands – Recital
Lyon, France – National Orchestra of Lyon – Beethoven
Lyon, France – National Orchestra of Lyon – Beethoven
Elmau, Germany – Recital
Copenhagen, Denmark – Recital
July 2026
Lofoten Festival – Gravdal, Norway – Chamber Music
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