Robert Levin Piano and Conductor
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Robert Levin Piano and Conductor Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition and United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia, in recital, a member of the American Academy of Arts and as soloist, and in chamber concerts. He has Sciences, he has also been Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Birmingham, Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. In Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Montreal, 2016 he was inducted as Honorary Member of the Tokyo and Vienna with such conductors as Bernard American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon currently the inaugural Hogwood Fellow of the Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Joseph Silverstein. On Academy of Ancient Music for 2017 and 2018. fortepiano he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Handel and Haydn Society, Orchestra In addition to his performing activities, Robert Levin of the Age of Enlightenment and Orchestre is a noted theorist and Mozart scholar, and is the Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with Sir John Eliot author of a number of articles and essays on Mozart. Gardiner, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles His completions of Mozart fragments are published Mackerras, Nicholas McGegan and Sir Roger by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Hänssler, and Norrington. He has performed frequently at such Peters, and have been recorded and performed festivals as Sarasota, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Bremen, throughout the world. Levin’s cadenzas to the Mozart Lockenhaus, Verbier and the Mozartwoche in violin concertos have been recorded by Gidon Kremer Salzburg. As a chamber musician, partners include with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Vienna Steven Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian, Ya-Fei Chuang and Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and Hilary Hahn. published by Universal Edition. Henle has also issued his cadenzas to the flute, oboe and horn concertos Robert Levin is renowned for his restoration of the and will publish his cadenzas to Beethoven’s violin Classical period practice of improvised concerto. His reconstruction of the Symphonie embellishments and cadenzas; his Mozart and Concertante in E-flat major for four winds and Beethoven performances have been hailed for their orchestra, K.297B, was premièred by the Vienna active mastery of the Classical musical language. He Philharmonic Orchestra at the Mozartwoche in has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Salzburg, and has subsequently been performed “Levin lives Mozart throughout his Decca/Oiseau-Lyre, Deutsche Grammophon Yellow worldwide. The first of four recordings of the work, Label, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Philips, by Philips, won the 1985 Grand Prix International du entire body, and for every second and SONY Classical. These include the complete Bach Disque. In August 1991 Robert Levin’s completion of of the score… he plays the music as concertos with Helmuth Rilling as well as the English Mozart’s Requiem was premièred by Helmuth Rilling Suites and the Well-Tempered Clavier for Hänssler’s at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart to a if he's writing it himself - for the 172-CD Edition BachAkademie. Other recordings standing ovation. Published by Hänssler-Verlag, it has first time” include a Beethoven concerto cycle with Sir John Eliot been performed worldwide and recorded numerous Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et times. A Carnegie Hall commission to complete Hilary Finch, The Times Romantique for DG Archiv, a Mozart concerto cycle Mozart’s Mass in C minor, K. 427 was premiered in with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of 2005. Ancient Music for Decca Oiseau-Lyre as well as the complete Beethoven cello and piano works for Recent and future highlights include concerts with Hyperion with Steven Isserlis, which was named the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, Orchestre Gramophone Magazine’s ‘Recording of the Month’ in d’Auvergne, City of London Sinfonia, Handel & Haydn early 2014. Society and New Jersey Symphony, as well as recitals at Leipzig BachFest, Bachwoche Ansbach, Wurzburg Robert Levin studied piano with Louis Martin and Mozartfest, Bergen International Festival, Schleswig- composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York. He Holstein Musik Festival, and his annual appearances worked with Nadia Boulanger in Fontainebleau and at the Salzburg Mozartwoche. He continues his Paris while still in high school, afterwards attending acclaimed collaboration with Steven Isserlis Harvard. Upon graduation he was invited by Rudolf performing the complete Beethoven cello and piano Serkin to head the theory department of the Curtis music. Institute of Music, a post he left after five years to take up a professorship at the School of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, outside of New York City. In 1979 he Valid for use until 1 September 2020 was Resident Director of the Conservatoire Américain For updated versions please contact in Fontainebleau, France, at the request of Nadia [email protected] Boulanger, and taught there from 1979 to 1983. Between 1986 and 1993 he was professor of piano at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. President of the Rayfield Allied Member of the International Artist Southbank House, Managers’ Association Black Prince Road, London SE1 7SJ, UK Rayfield Allied acts as agent only and can www.rayfieldallied.com accept no responsibility as principal E-mail [email protected] Telephone +44 (0) 20 3176 5500 Facsimile +44 (0) 700 602 4143 .