Krannert Center for the Performing Arts

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 7:30pm | Foellinger Great Hall

Classical Mix Series | Classical music is not obsolete.

This seven-time Grammy nominee, Gramophone Award winner, and youngest curator and performer of the Carnegie Hall Perspectives concerts reasserts this truth every season with concert stops from Japan to the United Kingdom and his amassed recordings at 30 discs and growing. Last season with Pictures Reframed—an epic reconceptualization with the provocative artist Robin Rhode of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition—he grabbed global attention from London to Stockholm to New York and from Vogue to Esquire to the BBC.

Andsnes’ program is as expansive as his accolades: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” and Piano Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111; Brahms’ Four Ballades, Op. 10; and Schoenberg’s Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19. On this exclusive trip to Krannert Center, you’ll find Leif Ove Andsnes “spellbinding” (Gramophone).



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Patron Sponsors:
Robin and Robert Fossum
Judith and Jon Liebman

Patron Co-sponsors:
Selma Richardson
Cecile and Allan Steinberg
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