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 United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia, in recital, and a member of the American Academy of Arts as soloist, and in chamber concerts. He has and Sciences, he has also been Dwight P. Robinson, performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los University. In 2016 he was inducted as Honorary Angeles, Montreal, Tokyo and Vienna with such Member of the American Academy of Arts and conductors as Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Letters. He is currently the inaugural Hogwood Seiji Ozawa, Sir Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen Fellow of the Academy of Ancient Music for 2017 and Joseph Silverstein. On fortepiano he has and 2018. appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, Handel and Haydn Society, Orchestra of the Age of In addition to his performing activities, Robert Levin Enlightenment and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et is a noted theorist and Mozart scholar, and is the Romantique, with Sir John Eliot Gardiner, author of a number of articles and essays on Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Mozart. His completions of Mozart fragments are Nicholas McGegan and Sir Roger Norrington. He published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, has performed frequently at such festivals as Hänssler, and Peters, and have been recorded and Sarasota, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Bremen, Locken- performed throughout the world. Levin’s cadenzas haus, Verbier and the Mozartwoche in Salzburg. As to the Mozart violin concertos have been recorded a chamber musician, partners include Steven by Gidon Kremer with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Isserlis, Kim Kashkashian and Ya-Fei Chuang. the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon and published by Universal Edition. Robert Levin is renowned for his restoration of the Henle has also issued his cadenzas to the flute, Classical period practice of improvised oboe and horn concertos and will publish his embellishments and cadenzas; his Mozart and cadenzas to Beethoven’s violin concerto. His Beethoven performances have been hailed for their reconstruction of the Symphonie Concertante in E- active mastery of the Classical musical language. flat major for four winds and orchestra, K.297B, was He has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, premièred by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at “ Levin lives Mozart throughout Decca/Oiseau-Lyre, Deutsche Grammophon Yellow the Mozartwoche in Salzburg, and has subsequently Label, ECM, New York Philomusica, Nonesuch, been performed worldwide. The first of four his entire body, and for every Philips, and SONY Classical. These include the recordings of the work, by Philips, won the 1985 second of the score… he plays the complete Bach concertos with Helmuth Rilling as Grand Prix International du Disque. In August 1991 well as the English Suites and the Well-Tempered Robert Levin’s completion of Mozart’s Requiem was music as if he's writing it himself Clavier for Hänssler’s 172-CD Edition Bach- premièred by Helmuth Rilling at the European ” Akademie. Other recordings include a Beethoven Music Festival in Stuttgart to a standing ovation. - for the first time concerto cycle with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Published by Hänssler-Verlag, it has been Hilary Finch, The Times Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique for DG performed worldwide and recorded numerous Archiv, a Mozart concerto cycle with Christopher times. A Carnegie Hall commission to complete Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music for Mozart’s Mass in C minor , K. 427 was premiered in Decca Oiseau-Lyre as well as the complete 2005. Beethoven cello and piano works for Hyperion with Steven Isserlis, which was named Gramophone Future highlights include concerts with the Rhode Magazine’s ‘Recording of the Month’ in early 2014. Island Symphony, Academy of Ancient Music and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. He continues his Robert Levin studied piano with Louis Martin and acclaimed collaboration with Steven Isserlis composition with Stefan Wolpe in New York. He performing the complete Beethoven cello and piano worked with Nadia Boulanger in Fontainebleau and music, as well as a new partnership with violinist Paris while still in high school, afterwards attending Hilary Hahn. Harvard. Upon graduation he was invited by Rudolf Serkin to head the theory department of the Curtis Institute of Music, a post he left after five years to Valid for use until 1 September 2017 take up a professorship at the School of the Arts, For updated versions please contact SUNY Purchase, outside of New York City. In 1979 [email protected] he was Resident Director of the Conservatoire Américain in Fontainebleau, France, at the request of Nadia 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 SE 1 7 SJ , 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 .