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The New York Times has called Leif Ove Andsnes “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power and insight,” and the Wall Street Journal described him as “one of the most gifted musicians of his generation.” He has won international acclaim giving recitals and playing concertos in the world’s leading concert halls and with the foremost orchestras. Andsnes is also an active recording artist, as well as an avid chamber musician, regularly appearing at Norway’s Risør Festival of Chamber Music. In 2012, he will serve as Music Director of the Ojai Music Festival in California.                 

Beethoven will figure prominently in Leif Ove Andsnes’s 2011-12 season and beyond, in concerto performances, recitals and recordings. He performs Piano Concerto No.1 in Vienna, Pittsburgh, Montreal and Boston; and Piano Concerto No. 3 on tour in Spain with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and in Philadelphia under Herbert Blomstedt.  Both works are scheduled for concerts across Scandinavia, and Andsnes will take them on tour with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra through Italy, Lugano, Dresden, Prague and Bergen. His Prague performances will be recorded live for his Sony Classical label debut: the beginning of a multi-year project entitled “Beethoven – A Journey,” playing and recording all five of Beethoven’s piano concertos.

"Beethoven - A Journey" is sponsored by the Stiftelsen Kristian Gerhard Jebsen, a Bergen based foundation established to honour the memory of Krisitan Gerhard Jebsen and his contribution to the Norwegian and international shipping business.  As a foundation which, until now, has concentrated its funding mainly on non-profit-making medical research, SKGJ's contribution to Leif Ove Andsnes is a special commitment to an artist who has contributed so much to Bergen cultural life. The foundation's three year engagement includes sole sponsorship of Leif Ove Andsnes' upcoming performances of Beethoven's Piano Concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra at the Bergen International Festival.

During the 2011-12 season, Andsnes performs Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3 with Hannover’s NDR Radiophilharmonie, Japan’s NHK Symphony, and his hometown orchestra, the Bergen Philharmonic; music by Chopin, Debussy, Bartók and Haydn are the focus of a recital program in sixteen cities across North America and Europe; and a spring recital tour featuring songs by Mahler and Shostakovich brings Andsnes back to the States for performances with baritone Matthias Goerne.

Leif Ove Andsnes’ discography comprises more than 30 solo, chamber and concerto releases, spanning repertoire from Bach to the present day and garnering seven Grammy nominations and five Gramophone Awards.  The New York Times selected his 2004 recording of the Grieg Piano Concerto as “Best CD of the Year.” Among his recent recordings are Rachmaninov’s Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4 with Antonio Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra and Schumann’s complete piano trios with violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his sister, cellist Tanja Tetzlaff.

Leif Ove Andsnes has received Norway’s most distinguished honour – Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav – as well as the prestigious Peer Gynt Prize, the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award, and the Gilmore Artist Award. Saluting his many achievements, Vanity Fair named Andsnes one of the “Best of the Best” in 2005.

He was born in Karmøy, Norway in 1970, and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory under the renowned Czech professor Jiří Hlinka. Andsnes is a Professor at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, a Visiting Professor at the Royal Music Conservatory of Copenhagen, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music. In June 2010, he achieved one of his proudest accomplishments to date: he became a father.

 November 2011   IMG Artists