With an alert and critical mind, Igor Levit 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”, the New Yorker as a pianist “like no other”. Since the 2022-23 season, Igor Levit is the Co-Artistic Director of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival. With the Lucerne Festival he initiated the Piano Fest which will take place in May 2025 for the third time.
In the 2024/25 season Igor Levit performs in recital at the Musikverein Vienna, Philharmonie Berlin, La Scala Milan, Carnegie Hall New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall Los Angeles, Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as in Naples, Rome, Stockholm and Évian among others. For the inauguration of Christian Thielemann as the new General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera, he opens the new season with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Further highlights of Igor Levits orchestral season are a Prokofiev cycle with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer as well as performances of the monumental piano concerto of Ferruccio Busoni with Sir Antonio Pappano, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig as well as the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Igor Levit’s 2019 highly-acclaimed first recording of the 32 Beethoven-Sonatas was awarded the Gramophone „Artist of the Year“ Award as well as the Opus Klassik in autumn 2020. 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 reaction to the attacks of the Hamas on 7th October 2023, Igor Levit recorded a selection of the Lieder ohne Worte from Mendelssohn among other, his most personal album so far. A live recording of the acclaimed piano concertos of Johannes Brahms with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and Christian Thielemann, paired with Brahms’ Fantasies and Piano Pieces, will be released in October 2024. In spring 2021 Hanser published Igor Levit’s first book “House Concert”, co-authored by Florian Zinnecker followed in Fall 2022 by the release of the feature documentary “Igor Levit – No Fear” in cinemas and on DVD.