Stellar Music to Present Carnegie Hall Debut of Pianist Ingrid Andsnes

Stellar Music proudly presents the Carnegie Hall debut of Norwegian pianist Ingrid Andsnes on Monday, November 2nd at 8pm. Andsnes makes her solo CD debut with the most demanding work in piano literature, music that has become representative of the struggle and transformation in her own life, Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, with a new cadenza written especially for her. To Andsnes this music has become synonymous with life itself, and the battles we have to go through as a part of it.

Her first meeting with this colossal set of variations came directly after a demanding period of serious illness: "I think I got the Diabelli Variations 'thrown after me' because I needed exactly this music at that time. I needed to play music which demanded so much power, strength, stamina, deep dives into my musicality, with great technical challenges - at that very moment. I had to feel the passion, the biggest and deepest emotions, the vulnerability, and not least, the power.

To recover the unused muscles, the strength, and love. You could say that my life had a perfect sound track." Norwegian composer Lars Petter Hagen has written a cadenza to Beethoven's masterpiece for her - stopping time at the end of the Fuga.

Monday, November 2, 2015 at 8pm Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall (57th St. & 7th Ave., New York, NY)

For tickets call 212-247-7800 or visit http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2015/11/2/0800/PM/Ingrid-Andsnes-Piano/. FREE tickets available at the box office, limit of 4 per person

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