Robert D. Levin
Robert David Levin (born October 13, 1947 in New York City ) is an American pianist, music teacher and scholar.
Life
Levin studied composition with Stefan Wolpe from 1957 to 1961 , then piano with Louis Martin until 1964 . At the same time, he studied composition with Nadia Boulanger and piano student with Alice Gaultier-Léon and Jean Casadesus at the American Conservatory in Fontainebleau from 1960 to 1964 . In addition, he took composition lessons from Leon Kirchner and attended master classes from Clifford Curzon and Robert Casadesus .
Levin then studied at Harvard University and after graduation (summa cum laude) in 1968, on the recommendation of Rudolf Serkin, he became head of the music theory department at the Curtis Institute of Music.He held this position until 1973, but in 1972 he received a parallel professorship at State University of New York at Purchase , where he taught until 1986. He was also Resident Director of the American Conservatory from 1979 to 1983 at the invitation of Nadia Boulanger. From 1986 to 1993 he was professor of piano at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg , and in 1993 he became professor at Harvard University. In 2000 Levin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He has been an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters since 2015 .
As a pianist Levin had occurred since his youth, but his real career in this field began in 1987 with a concert in Alice Tully Hall of the Lincoln Center . After making recordings with the violist Kim Kashkashian and Mozart's Concerto for Three Pianos with his friends Malcolm Bilson and Melvyn Tan in 1986 , a series of recordings of the Mozart Piano Concerts under the direction of Christopher Hogwood was made in the 1990s .
His scientific preoccupation with Mozart's work led to a series of reconstructions of the composer's works. At the European Music Festival in 1991, Mozart's Requiem was premiered in the version he completed under the direction of Helmuth Rilling . He recorded Beethoven's five piano concertos between 1996 and 2000 . Levin's repertoire ranges from baroque music to modern classical music, and he has also devoted himself to contemporary composers such as Edisson Denissow and John Harbison .
In 2018 he was awarded the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig.
literature
- Heinz von Loesch: Robert D. Levin. In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section, volume 11 (Lesage - Menuhin). Bärenreiter / Metzler, Kassel et al. 2004, ISBN 3-7618-1121-7 ( online edition , subscription required for full access)
- Stanley Sadie: Levin, Robert. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert D. Levin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Robert D. Levin at Allmusic (English)
- Robert Levin at Bach Cantatas (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 11, 2019 .
- ↑ Robert Levin receives the 2018 Bach Medal from the City of Leipzig . News from March 21, 2018 on the website of the city of Leipzig.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Levin, Robert D. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Levin, Robert David |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American pianist, music educator and scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 13, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |