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A Boy Prodigy

Piano music by
Niklas Sivelöv -
heard by
GERALD FENECH

'... marvelous technique and improvisational skills.'

Niklas Sivelöv Piano Music. © 2015 Toccata Classics

Born in 1968, Niklas Sivelöv is one of the leading pianists not only in his native Sweden, but in the Nordic countries as well. With a number of international awards and accolades to his name, he is continually commissioned not only to perform but also to compose, and his discography already numbers some twenty-five CDs. Sivelöv can be regarded as a boy prodigy, playing the organ when he was six, and winning prizes across the whole of Scandinavia while attracting attention for his dexterity both as an improviser and composer. When he was fourteen he switched to his beloved instrument, the piano, and three years later he started his serious studies at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm...

Copyright © 26 January 2016 Gerald Fenech,
Gzira, Malta

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NIKLAS SIVELÖV: PIANO MUSIC

PIANO MUSIC

1968

SWEDEN

TOCCATA CLASSICS

DENMARK

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

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