With Manfred Honeck
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Heinz Hall
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
Heinz Hall
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
Heinz Hall
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
Citizen.
European.
Pianist.
“Igor Levit Is Like No Other Pianist”
With an alert and critical mind, he places his art in the context of social events and understands it as inseparably linked to them. The New York Times describes Igor Levit as one of the “most important artists of his generation”. Igor Levit is Musical America’s “Recording Artist of the Year 2020” and the 2018 Gilmore Artist. In June 2022 his Album “On DSCH” has been awarded the “Recording of the Year” Award as well as the Instrumental Award of the BBC Music Magazine.
As a recitalist Igor Levit regularly performs at the world’s most renowned concert halls and festivals. He is regular soloist with the world’s leading orchestras such as the Cleveland Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic. Igor Levit opened the 2022 Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival together with Alan Gilbert and the NDR Elbphilharmonieorchester followed by recitals at the Salzburger Festspiele and the Lucerne Festival as well as concerts with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Sir Antonio Pappano at the Musikfest Berlin and at Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie. In the 2022-23 season Igor Levit presents his new recital program featuring works by Brahms, Hersch, Liszt and Wagner among others in Berlin, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milano, New York, Paris, Prague and Rome. Igor Levit is one of Vienna’s Musikverein’s portrait artists of the 2022-23 season. In June 2023 he joins the San Francisco Symphony and Esa-Pekka Salonen for a multi-week residency. In spring 2021 Igor Levit and the Lucerne Festival announced a multi-year collaboration for a new piano festival curated by Igor Levit, its first edition to take place in May 2023. With the 2022-23 season, Igor Levit joins the Festival Heidelberger Frühling music festival as its Co-Artistic Director.
Born in Nizhni Novgorod, Igor Levit moved to Germany with his family at the age of eight. He completed his piano studies in Hannover with the highest score in the history of the institute. His teachers included Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Matti Raekallio, Bernd Goetzke, Lajos Rovatkay and Hans Leygraf. Igor Levit was the youngest participant in the 2005 International Arthur Rubinstein Competition in Tel Aviv, where he won silver, the special prize for chamber music, the audience prize and the special prize for the best performance of contemporary pieces. In spring 2019 he was appointed professor for piano at his alma mater, the University of Music, Theatre and Media Hanover. For his political commitment Igor Levit has been awarded the 5th International Beethoven Prize in 2019 followed by the award of the “Statue B” of the International Auschwitz Committee in January 2020. His 53 Twitter-streamed live house concerts during the lockdown in spring 2020 garnered a worldwide audience, offering a sense of community and hope in a time of isolation and desperation. In October 2020 Igor Levit was recognized with the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In Berlin, where he makes his home, Igor Levit is playing on a Steinway D Grand Piano kindly given to him by the Trustees of Independent Opera at Sadler’s Wells.
With Manfred Honeck
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
George Gershwin: Concerto in F major
Residency June 2023: Beethoven and Busoni with Esa-Pekka Salonen, Chamber Series and Recital
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 “Emperor”
Chamber Series with members of the San Francisco Symphony – program to be announced
Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 (BV 247)
Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 (BV 247)
Ferruccio Busoni: Piano Concerto in C major, Op. 39 (BV 247)
Johannes Brahms (arr. Ferruccio Busoni): Six Choral Preludes BV B 50
Fred Hersch: Variations on a Folksong (2021)
Richard Wagner (arr. Zoltán Kocsis): Prelude from Tristan and Isolde, WWV 90
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
Recital
Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (arrangement for piano by Franz Liszt)
Recital
Ronald Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy
Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Intermission
Richard Wagner: Prelude from Tristan and Isolde, WWV 90
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
Recital
Ronald Stevenson: Peter Grimes Fantasy
Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C major, Op. 17
Intermission
Richard Wagner: Prelude from Tristan and Isolde, WWV 90 (arranged for piano by Zoltán Kocsis)
Franz Liszt: Piano Sonata in B minor, S.178
“Yesterday’s concert at Carnegie Hall has been one of the most intense experiences of my life. No idea why and when these moments happen. But it is of no importance. They just happen and that’s all what matters. Sharing these experiences is the single most wonderful thing of my life.”