Igor Levit

Igor Levit (Russian: Игорь Левит; * 1987 in Gorky, now Nizhny Novgorod ) is a Russian- German pianist.

Life

First instruction in piano playing Levit received at the age of three years by his mother Elena Levite, a student of Berta Marantz (1907-1998), who had studied with Heinrich Neuhaus. After a year, he performed with the Philharmonic Orchestra of his native city of Nizhny Novgorod. 1995 moved his Jewish family from Russia to Hanover, where he attended the Kaiser- Wilhelm- and Ratsgymnasium. Levit 1999-2000 studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hans Leygraf and 2000-2010 at the Academy of Music, Drama and Media Hanover with Karl -Heinz Kammerling, Matti Raekallio and Bernd Goetzke.

Since 2000, Levit concerts in Europe, the U.S. and Israel. Piano concertos he played with the English Chamber Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic Hannover, Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Chamber music he makes with Mischa Maisky, Sergei Aleksandrovich Krylov, Kim Kashkashian, Gavriel Lipkind, Daniel Müller- Schott. With Maxim Vengerov and Alisa Weilerstein Levit plays the piano trio.

Since 2003, Levit received a scholarship from the Study Foundation of the German People since 2005 and a fellow of the Villa Musica. A grant from the German Music Foundation enabled him in 2009 to participate in the master class with Yoheved Kaplinsky at the Juilliard School in New York City.

Eleonore Büning certified him in 2010 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung to be before the exam " one of the great pianists of this century ". In October 2011, 3sat broadcast the 45 - minute documentary Igor Levit - my Liszt about the pianist and his fondness for the music of Franz Liszt from.

Prices

  • Second Prize, International Maria Callas Grand Prix, Athens 2004
  • First Prize, International Hamamatsu Piano Academy Competition, Hamamatsu 2004
  • Second Prize, Kissinger Piano Olympus, Bad Kissingen 2004
  • Silver medal and three other prizes, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, Tel Aviv 2005
  • Award, Praetorius Music Prize, Lower Saxony 2005
  • Luitpold Prize for young artists, Kissinger Sommer, Bad Kissingen 2009
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