Leif Ove Andsnes


Leif Ove Andsnes is a Norwegian pianist and chamber musician. Andsnes has made several recordings for Virgin and EMI. In 2012, he signed with Sony Classical, and recorded for the label the "Beethoven Journey" project, which included the five piano concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. The works were recorded over three years, beginning with Nos. 1 and 3 in 2012, followed by Nos. 2 and 4 in 2013 and the Fifth Piano Concerto and Choral Fantasy in 2014. He is represented by IMG.
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Biography

Andsnes was born in Karmøy and studied with Jiří Hlinka at the Bergen Music Conservatory, making his debut in Oslo in 1987. He appeared at the Edinburgh Festival with the Oslo Philharmonic in 1989, and with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Neeme Järvi in 1990.
He is renowned as a champion of the works of Edvard Grieg. In 2002 he played Grieg's Piano Concerto at the Last Night of the Proms.
In November 2009, Pictures Reframed debuted at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, in which Andsnes performed Mussorgsky’s suite accompanied by five hanging panels and a rear video projection by Robin Rhode. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Mozart Festival, and the Apple Store in New York City.
Andsnes cites Dinu Lipatti, Sviatoslav Richter, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Géza Anda among his idols.
He helped found the Risør Festival of Chamber Music in 1991 and was its artistic director until 2010. In June 2012, he served as music director of the 2012 Ojai Music Festival.
He is foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

Awards

Andsnes has won many awards, including the Hindemith Prize Frankfurt, Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Gilmore Artist Award, Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards and the Gramophone Classical Music Awards. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2013. His recording of Beethoven's Piano Concertos nos. 2 and 4 with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra won both the Concerto Award and the Recording of the Year Award from the BBC Music Magazine in 2015.
Andsnes also received the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award in 1998. He is one of only nine pianists to receive the award.
Andsnes has been nominated for a Grammy Award on eleven occasions.

Personal life

Andsnes's partner is Norwegian horn player Ragnhild Lothe. They have three children.

Discography

LP

  • Chopin – Smetana – Beethoven: Sonatas etc. Vest-Norsk Plateselskap 0087-14

CD

CD (miscellaneous)

  • Movements
  • Andsnes, Antonsen, Mørk
  • Grieg: Piano Concerto in A Minor – Symphony in C Minor
  • Chopin for Dummies
  • Classical Sounds of Norway
  • Delft Chamber Music Festival – Pettersson/Stravinsky/Schubert
  • En annen sol
  • Leif Ove Andsnes • A Portrait
  • Piano Nocturnes
  • Grieg: Lyric Pieces
  • Best of 2002
  • Editor's Choice • The Top Ten Discs of July 2003
  • Editor's Choice • The Top Ten Discs of September 2004
  • Venn
  • Editor's Choice • The Top Ten Discs of November 2005
  • ''Editor's Choice • The Top Ten Discs of August 2006''

Studio albums

DVD

  • The Verbier Festival & Academy 10th Anniversary Piano Extravaganza
  • ''Leif Ove Andsnes plays Bach & Mozart''

Filmography

  • Concerto: A Beethoven Journey as himself

Biography

  • ''Leif Ove Andsnes: I og med musikken''