Leif Ove Andsnes News

LEIF OVE ANDSNES WAS winning piano competitions at an age when most of us were competing only in the confines of the school gym.

Great collaborations are the stuff of legend. Scorcese and De Niro. Aerosmith and Run DMC.

It could be one of the most disturbing images in classical music since Charlotte Moorman played the cello in the nude and brought out the New York City vice squad.

A leading concert pianist and a top international video artist have come together for a new take on concert work Pictures From An Exhibition.

In those countries where CDs are still mainly sold in stores , I fear the worst for Leif Ove Andsnes' lastest recording, "Shadows of Silence". Because CDs with more than two, sometimes three, composers, are filed under the artist or his instrument, they are removed from the main section ; are out of sight and easily out of mind.

ALICE TULLY HALL: Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival kicks off with performances from the Mostly Mozart Orchestra, conducted by Louis Langree and featuring Leif Ove Andsnes on piano.

Soprano Renee Fleming makes her Festival del Sole debut on a recital double bill with Leif Ove Andsnes at Calistoga's Castello di Amorosa.

Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes's successful collaboration with his compatriots, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, gained a Grammy nomination for their recording of two Mozart concertos earlier this year, and his pairing of concertos by Mozart and Beethoven was the attraction of the NCO's current short British tour.