Rosendal Chamber Music Festival 2024

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Igor Levit, piano. Foto Peter Meisel

Igor Levit

Biography

Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the essential artists of his generation” (New York Times), Igor
Levit is the 2018 Gilmore Artist and Royal Philharmonic Society’s “Instrumentalist of the Year” 2018. He is
the Artistic Director of the Chamber Music Academy and of the Festival “Standpunkte” of the Heidelberg
Spring Festival and has been appointed a professorship at his Alma Mater the University of Music, Drama
and Media in Hanover in spring 2019.

In September 2019 Sony Classical releases Igor Levit’s highly anticipated first recording of all Beethoven
Sonatas. The season marks the start of three Beethoven sonata cycles at the Lucerne Festival,
Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Stockholm’s Konserthuset. The end of the season will see Igor Levit on
tour in the United States with an all-Beethoven sonata program – amongst others at New York’s Carnegie
Hall, Princeton, Washington, San Francisco and Chicago.

Igor Levit is Barbican Centre’s “Featured Artist” of the 2019/20 season. The residency comprises a solo
recital, two duo recitals with pianists Markus Becker and Markus Hinterhäuser as well as a concerto
performance with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks under the baton of Mariss
Jansons, with whom he Igor Levit will also tour in Spain in January 2020. Further orchestral engagements
will see him on tour in Europe with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck
and returns amongst others to the Cleveland Orchestra, the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and the
London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Highlights of past seasons included debuts with the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony
Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest as well as international tours with the Tonhalleorchester
Zürich and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

Born in Nizhni Nowgorod in 1987, Igor Levit moved to Germany with his family at age eight. He
completed his piano studies at Hannover Academy of Music, Theatre and Media in 2009 with the highest
academic and performance scores in the history of the institute. 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.

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Festival Performances Year 2024

11.00 10. Morning concert in Kvinnherad church

Prokofiev: from Visions Fugitives, Op. 22   [c. 10’] No. 3, Allegretto No. 8, Commodo No. 10, Ridicolosamente No. 11, Con vivacità No. 16, Dolente No. 14, Feroce
Sasha Grynyuk (piano)

Debussy: Première rapsodie for clarinet and piano   [9’]
Anthony McGill, clarinet; Marc-André Hamelin, piano

Rachmaninov: from Preludes, Op. 32   [c. 25’] No. 12 in G♯ minor, Allegro No. 9 in A major, Allegro moderato No. 10 in B minor, Lento No 5 in G major, Moderato No. 13 in D♭ major, Grave
Sasha Grynyuk, piano

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Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 92   [c. 35’]
Quatuor Danel

16.00-18.00 17. Closing concert in Riddersalen

Igor Stravinsky: Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet (1919)
Anthony Mc Gill (clarinet)

Alexander Vustin: Dedication for Cello, Marimba and Piano (2013)
Amalie Stalheim (cello), PERCelleh (percussion), Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (1930-1935)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

Dmitri Sjostakovitsj: Allegro from Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93, arranged for Piano Duet (1953)
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Marc-André Hamelin (piano)

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Dmitri Sjostakovitsj: Symphony No. 15 in A Major, Op. 141 (1971)
Arranged for Piano Trio and Percussion by Viktor Dervianko. PERCelleh (percussion), Christian Krogvold Lundqvist (percussion), Sonoko Miriam Welde (violin), Clemens Hagen (cello), Marianna Shirinyan (piano)

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