Maria Lettberg

The child of the professor of Russian literature and a mathematician, Swedish pianist Maria Lettberg was created in Riga, Latvia, and began her musical studies at age 7. By age group 9, she debuted in public areas with a overall performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2. After their studies at a Latvian college for musically gifted kids, she was signed up for the Petersburg Conservatory, where she graduated with variation in the concert exam. Deciding against getting into international contests, which had appeared a natural profession route for such a virtuoso, Lettberg rather pursued her musical advancement in academic applications, their studies at the Royal University in Stockholm as well as the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she gained her doctorate in piano overall performance. Lettberg’s educators included Tatjana Zagorovskaja, Andrej Gavrilov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Menahem Pressler, Emanuel Krasovsky, Roland Pöntinen, and Matti Raekallio. Furthermore to a dynamic routine of radio broadcasts, orchestral concerts, and single recitals, Lettberg offers documented the piano music of Finnish composer Erkki Melartin for Crystal Classics, and a critically praised group of the complete released solo piano functions of Alexander Scriabin for Capriccio. She’s also documented piano music by Alfred Schnittke. Among Lettberg’s preferred composers to system are Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin, Ravel, Debussy, Mozart, Haydn, and Bach. Maria Lettberg offers resided in Berlin for several years, and she talks fluent Swedish, German, Russian, and British.