In the 2024/25 season Igor Levit performs in recital at the Musikverein Vienna, Philharmonie Berlin, La Scala Milan, Carnegie Hall in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Concertgebouw Amsterdam as well as in Naples, Rome, Stockholm, and Évian. For the inauguration of Christian Thielemann as the new General Music Director of the Berlin State Opera, he opened the season with the Staatskapelle Berlin. Further highlights of Igor Levit’s orchestral season are a Prokofiev cycle with the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Iván Fischer. He will interpret the monumental piano concerto of Ferruccio Busoni with the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig and Sir Antonio Pappano and with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Igor Levit’s 2019 recording of the 32 Beethoven Sonatas earned him the 2020 Gramophone Artist of the Year award as well as an Opus Klassik in autumn 2020. In June 2022 his album On DSCH received the Recording of the Year award as well as the Instrumental prize of BBC Music Magazine. As a reaction to the attacks by Hamas on October 7, 2023, Levit recorded a selection of the Lieder ohne Worte from Mendelssohn among others for his most personal album so far.

Born in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia, Igor Levit moved to Germany with his family at age 8. He completed his piano studies in Hanover with the highest score in the history of the institute. His teachers included Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, Matti Raekallio, Bernd Goetzke, Lajos Rovatkay, and Hans Leygraf. Igor Levit was the youngest participant in the 2005 Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, where he won silver, the special prize for chamber music, the audience prize, and the special prize for the best performance of contemporary pieces.

In 2018 Igor Levit was named the eighth recipient of the prestigious Gilmore Artist Award– conferred only every four years to a classical pianist. In spring 2019, he was appointed professor of piano at his alma mater, Hanover University of Music, Drama and Media.