Leif Ove Andsnes is “a pianist of magisterial elegance, power, and insight” (The New York Times). 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 until its final season and co-artistic director of the Risør Festival of Chamber Music for nearly two decades. He was inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2013.
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 Hong Kong’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 Palestrina, Beethoven, Liszt, and Schumann that also takes him to key cities in Brazil, Peru, 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.
Comprising more than 50 titles, the pianist’s existing discography has been recognized with eleven Grammy nominations, seven Gramophone Awards, BBC Music Magazine’s “Recording of the Year Award” and numerous other international honors. Andsnes is also the recipient of the Royal Philharmonic Society’s Instrumentalist Award, Gilmore Artist Award, Norway’s Commander of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav, and the prestigious Peer Gynt Prize. He has curated Carnegie Hall’s “Perspectives” series, been the subject of the London Symphony Orchestra’s “Artist Portrait Series” and undertaken season-long artistic residencies with the Berlin and New York Philharmonics.
Andsnes studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory under Jirí Hlinka, also receiving invaluable advice from Jacques de Tiège. Today he lives with his wife and their three children in Bergen, where he is an Artistic Adviser at the city’s Prof. Jirí Hlinka Piano Academy.
The Rosendal Chamber Music Festival celebrates its final edition this August, returning to Norwegian roots and the local region of Hardanger, which inspired many artists, including, Edvard Grieg. …
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Following his 2022 recital tour, which put the spotlight on Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Paintings, Andsnes’ latest solo programme features the only surviving piano sonata of his compatriot Geirr Tveitt, juxtaposed with works by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms. …
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This summer Leif Ove Andsnes focuses on Johannes Brahms whose rich and varied chamber music resulted in some of the genre’s most pivotal works. Over four days from 10 – 13 August, Andsnes will be joined by twenty-five guest artists …
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Now almost 3 months since the start of lockdown and on the actual day of Grieg’s birthday, Andsnes and the Bergen Philharmonic perform his piano concerto in the Grieghallen and celebrate the first day that concert halls in Norway can open their doors to the public once more …
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Leif Ove Andsnes plays Dvořák’s Poetic Tone Pictures, Bartók’s Three Burlesques and Schumann’s Carnaval on a European recital tour. Crowned by returns to the Vienna Konzerthaus and London’s Wigmore Hall, the tour takes him to Amsterdam, Lisbon, Heidelberg, Copenhagen, Norway’s Spitsbergen and Oslo, and Sweden’s Gothenburg …
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Leif Ove Andsnes reunites with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra for European tour as part of MOZART MOMENTUM 1785/1786 …
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Leif Ove Andsnes returns to Grieg, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Piano Concerto’s premiere …
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Leif Ove on tour with the Staatskapelle Dresden performing Brahms’ first Piano Concerto & in recital with Schumann, Janáček, Bartók …
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Marc-André Hamelin and Leif Ove Andsnes’ new recording of Stravinsky for two pianos, featuring The Rite of Spring, Concerto for Two Pianos, Madrid, Tango and Circus Polka …
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From October 23 to December 3, Leif Ove Andsnes will take a new recital programme on tour across Europe with performances in Spain, Switzerland, Austria, UK Germany, Holland, Italy and Belgium (full tour details below) …
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Translated review highlights from Leif Ove Andsnes’ Sibelius Album …
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A personal tribute to the Finnish composer and his unknown piano gems …
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After drawing rave reviews in Europe, where he proved himself “a first-class Mozart interpreter” (DrehPunktKultur, Austria) in concerts with the Vienna Philharmonic, Leif Ove Andsnes returns to the States for a pair of high-profile spring collaborations …
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Applications are now open for the Professor Jiri Hlinka Piano Academy Spring masterclasses which take place in Bergen from 22 – 26 May, culminating in student concerts at both Barony Rosendal (24 May) and the Bergen Festival (26 May).
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This Spring the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra celebrates its 40th birthday by paying tribute to its life-long Leader, Terje Tønnensen, and former Artistic Partners Iona Brown (1981 – 2001) and Leif Ove Andsnes (2002 – 2010).
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