Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 'All I can do is help the pain of my people through music': Igor Levit - Felix Broede/ Sony Classical On October 7, the renowned ...

When the German pianist, Igor Levit was selected as the featured soloist of the Nobel Prize ceremony last month, it marked yet another grace note in a career that's quickly grown filled with awards ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Russian-German pianist Igor Levit and French conductor Stephane Deneve with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra ...

Anthony Brandt, a musicologist whose work focuses on music cognition, talks about what this musical form and how human beings approach open-ended problems.

I have never known a time when there wasn’t a young Russian or Moscow-trained pianist of promise on the scene. It is no different now. Twenty-four-year-old Daniil Trifonov, gold medalist of the ...

The 33-year-old Russian-German pianist Igor Levit ranks among the most important pianists and musicians of his generation. His brilliance does not consist merely of a flawless technique, which is more ...

Igor Levit rarely does anything small. The acclaimed Russian-Jewish-German pianist raised eyebrows as a 26-year-old when, for his Sony Classical debut in 2013, he tackled Beethoven’s last five piano ...

It is heartening that pianist Igor Levit should have chosen to call his new double album Life, given that it emerged out of the heavy fug of grief. Levit’s close friend Hannes Malte Mahler, an artist, ...

The 30-year-old Russian-born, Berlin-based pianist Igor Levit last Wednesday received the 2018 Gilmore Artist Award. Like the MacArthur “genius” awards, the $300,000 prize (given every four years) ...

When the German pianist Igor Levitt was featured as the soloist at the Nobel Prize ceremony last December, it marked yet another grace note in a career that's quickly grown filled with awards and ...