Maria Lettberg


Maria Lettberg is a Swedish pianist, resident in Berlin.

Biography and artistic work

Lettberg is the daughter of a university professor of Russian literature and a mathematician. When she was seven, Maria's talent was recognised and fostered. She gave her graduate recital at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. Following that, she pursued her studies further in Stockholm, in Bloomington and in Helsinki. Her most important teachers were Tatyana Zagorovskaja, Andrei Gavrilov, Paul Badura-Skoda, Menahem Pressler, Emanuel Krasovsky, Roland Pöntinen and Matti Raekallio.
Maria Lettberg's concert repertoire focuses on Brahms, Schumann, Liszt, Chopin and Scriabin, but, also Debussy, Prokofiev, Schnittke and Bach. Besides these composers, she also regularly plays the work of less well-known ones, in particular, those of Scandinavian and Russian origin. Ms. Lettberg has worked with Deutschlandradio for many years.

Nomination for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards

Maria Lettberg has been nominated for the 60th Annual Grammy Awards – category for her performance of Zara Levina's two piano concertos with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin.

Work on Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin

Maria Lettberg is an interpreter of Alexander Scriabin. In 2007, she recorded Scriabin's solo piano work completely on eight CDs. This was followed in 2012 by the recording of “Opus Posthum” – the early piano works of Alexander Scriabin which are not numbered and the compositions of Scriabin's son Julian.
Inspired by Scriabin's ideas, Maria Lettberg initiated and led two projects under the title of “Mysterium”. In both productions, a synaesthetic experience of art was achieved by the linking of musical and visual aspects. In 2008 Maria Lettberg did her PhD at the Sibelius Academy. The subject of her PhD dissertation was “An Historical Overview of Tendencies in the Interpretation of Alexander Scriabin’s piano sonata Nr. 10. - a comparative pianistic analysis.”.

Recordings