Revealed: The Enchanting Love Life Of Piano Virtuoso Jan Lisiecki

It’s been a mere decade since the then 16-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki (leeZHEVsky) was signed by Deutsche Grammophon, and with some seven releases since, including the Beethoven piano concertos, it all might designate him as the leading keyboard light of his mid-20s cohort. When Jan Lisiecki plays the piano, he sounds like a virtuoso with decades of experience. He fills concert halls all over the world, wins prestigious awards and is celebrated by the... This week on Preview!, The Classical Station’s Rob Kennedy speaks with Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki about his recording of the Mendelssohn piano concertos. Jan Lisiecki has performed with the New York Philharmonic,. For nearly his entire life, pianist Jan Lisiecki has regarded the poetic and passionate music of Frédéric Chopin as a pillar of his repertoire: "I simply love his music." The performer was Jan Lisiecki, a 14-year-old great talent, born in Calgary. He was accompanied by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by the British conductor and pianist Howard.

It’s been a mere decade since the then 16-year-old Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki (leeZHEVsky) was signed by Deutsche Grammophon, and with some seven releases since, including the Beethoven piano concertos, it all might designate him as the leading keyboard light of his mid-20s cohort. For nearly his entire life, pianist Jan Lisiecki has regarded the poetic and passionate music of Frédéric Chopin as a pillar of his repertoire: "I simply love his music." The performer was Jan Lisiecki, a 14-year-old great talent, born in Calgary. He was accompanied by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by the British conductor and pianist Howard. When Jan Lisiecki plays the piano, he sounds like a virtuoso with decades of experience. He fills concert halls all over the world, wins prestigious awards and is celebrated by the... Lisiecki’s stirring interpretation of Felix Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 25, brought the house down at Roy Thomson Hall. It’s a piece of music from 1848 designed to. He’s one of the piano greats. This Canadian musician of Polish heritage dazzles audiences both with his virtuosity and with the maturity of his interpretatio...

The performer was Jan Lisiecki, a 14-year-old great talent, born in Calgary. He was accompanied by Sinfonia Varsovia conducted by the British conductor and pianist Howard.