Leif Segerstam is an award-winning conductor, composer, violinist and pianist with a prominent international career. He received diplomas from the Sibelius Academy in violin and conducting. He won the Maj Lind Piano Competition in 1962 and gave his first violin recital in 1963. He rounded off his studies at the Juilliard School in New York, where he was awarded a conducting diploma in 1964.

 

 

While pursuing his conducting career, Segerstam has also produced an extensive oeuvre as a composer. His biography includes two hundred and eighty-five symphonies, violin concerti, piano concerti and numerous chamber music and vocal pieces.

 

 

French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie has attracted critical acclaim throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States. He has extended his interpretative voice across a broad range of repertoire rather than choosing to specialize in one particular style. The London Times, describing his playing as "ever immaculate, ever imaginative", has identified the artist's "combination of total spontaneity and meditated ripeness that only great pianists have".

 

Conductor: Leif Segerstam
Piano: Louis Lortie
Shanghai Symphony Orchestra

Program：
Leif Segerstam: Symphony TBC
Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16 30’
(Piano: Louis Lortie)
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Sibelius: Symphony No.5 in E-flat major, Op.82 32’