Igor Levit (Russian: Игорь Левит), born 1987 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod), is a Russian-German pianist. Levit began playing piano at age three, and as a child he had his first successes on the concert stage in his hometown of Nizhny Novgorod. His family moved to Hanover in 1995. From 1999-2000 he studied at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Hans Leygraf and from 2000-2010 at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover with Karl-Heinz Kammerling, Matti Raekallio and Bernd Goetzke.[1]