Fri, 22 May 2009  MAX LEVINSON IN CONVERSATION ON OFFBEAT Conversation with Max Levinson "The pianist's quietly eloquent conceptions, formidable technique and lovely touch left little else to be desired.” - THE NEW YORK TIMES "The questioning, conviction and feeling in his playing invariably reminds us of the deep reasons why music is important to us, why we listen to it, why we care so much about it.” - THE BOSTON GLOBE American Pianist Max Levinson came to recognition here in Ireland after winning the 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition. He then received overwhelming critical acclaim for his two solo recordings on N2K Encoded Music, and was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in March 1999. Max Levinson is a graduate of Harvard and the New England Conservatory, receiving an Artist Diploma and the Gunther Schuller Medal. His teachers include Patricia Zander, Aube Tzerko and Bruce Sutherland. He is Artistic Director of the San Juan Chamber Music Festival in Ouray, Colorado, and is on the faculty at Boston Conservatory and Brown University. Max Levinson lives in the Boston area with his wife, cellist Allison Eldredge, and their daughters Natalie and Jessica. Following his 1997 success here in Dublin, he has gone on to perform as soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Utah Symphony, Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and in recital at New York's Alice Tully Hall, Washington DC"s Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Zürich’s Tonhalle, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Listen to Max in Conversation with Karishmeh, as he talks about life since winning the competition, the realities of being a virtuoso concert artist, the importance of music education and teaching, and why amateur pianists can get to a very high standard. Final Track : "Kirchner - There Came a Wind" - performed by Max Levinson, taken from the album " Leon Kirchner - Works for Solo Piano" Comments[0] |
