Swedish pianist Love Derwinger (b. 1966) made his début at the age of sixteen as soloist in Liszt’s Second Piano Concerto. Since then he has given recitals throughout Europe, the USA, Canada, Japan, the Middle East and South America. Derwinger has appeared as a soloist with the major Scandinavian orchestras, the Belgian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Amsterdam Sinfonietta and others. He has collaborated with conductors such as Myung-Whun Chung, Jun’ichi Hirokami and Paavo Järvi, and has participated in festivals such as Oviedo Piano Festival, Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Montreal Festival of Lights and Yuri Temirkanov’s Winter Festival in St. Petersburg. Love Derwinger also devotes much attention to chamber music, contemporary music and the Lieder repertoire. He is a member of the con temporary music ensemble ‘MA’ both as a pianist and as a conductor. In the latter capacity he successfully performed Morton Feldman’s opera Neither with the Norrköping Symphony Orchestra, one of the highlights of the international Stockholm New Music Festival. Derwinger is also the regular pianist of the soprano Barbara Hendricks.