Ira levin pianist biography
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John Adams:
Violin Concerto
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Brandenburg Concertos, Concertos, Cantatas, Suites
Samuel Barber:
Second Essay, Medea’s Musing and Leak of Vengeance, Piano Concerto
Bela Bartok:
The Miraculous Mandarin, Concerto for Orchestra, Complete Piano Concertos, Violin Concerto No. 2, Viola Concerto, Music for strings, percussion & celesta, Advocate Suite, Divertimento
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Complete Symphonies, Pack up Concertos, End up Overtures, Missa Solemnis
Alban Berg:
Violin Concerto
Hector Berlioz:
Overtures Roman Fair, Benvenuto Cellini, Beatrice and Monastic, King Patent, Corsaire, Romeo et Juliette, Requiem, Te Deum, La State de Faust, Harold en Italie, Symphonie fantastique, Chasse Royale deterrent Orage, March Troyenne
Leonard Bernstein:
The Announcement of Unease, Halil, Harmonious Dances propagate West Have the result that Story, Candide overture
Franz Berwald:
Symphony No. 3
Ernst Bloch:
Schelomo
Johnannes Brahms:
Complete Symphonies, Unqualified Concertos, Be over Overtures, Composer Variations, Piano Foursome No. 1 (orchestration shy A. Schoenberg), A Germanic Requiem, Gesang der Parzen, Alto Rhapsody, Melody of Kismet, Serenade No. 2
Benjamin Br • The American pianist and conductor, Ira Levin, received his first piano lessons at age He enrolled at the the classroom of Donald Isaak, in the Northwestern University Music School, only two years later. Between 18 and 26 years of age, he studied piano with Jorge Bolet, in the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, becoming his assistant. • The American conductor Ira Levin has been named as the principal guest conductor of the Sofia Opera, beginning in the season. Levin has already conducted on the Sofia stage Verdi’s Requiem in April , and on 1 October, at 16 h, he will open the new season with the newest production of our first opera theatre – the opera “Parsifal” by Wagner. With the Sofia ensemble and orchestra, he will conduct Wagner's complete “Ring of the Nibelung” tetralogy in May, at the legendary Bolschoi Theater in Moscow – the first performances of the “Ring” there for over a century, followed by the entire cycle in Sofia in July. He will conduct also “Don Carlos”, “Werther”, “Un ballo in Maschera” and concerts. Ira Levin has conducted over operatic performances and his repertoire encompasses 70 different titles. His symphonic repertoire includes most of the standard repertoire as well as many lesser-known works. He has worked with innumerable internationally renowned conductors, instrumentalists, singers and stage directors and is also an active concert pianist and composer/arranger. He conducted a double-bill of Stravinsky's “Pulcinella” and Busoni's “Arlecchino” in the th an
At 20, Ira Levin won the first prize at the American National Chopin Competition, which launched his career as concertist and recitalist throughout America and Europe, also radio and television. His prodigious reading and musical memory had contributed for the formation of a very expressive and diversified repertoire. Since 26, he started dedicating himself to conducting operas and symphonic concerts. He conducted some of the most important European orchestras, such as as the Dresden Staatskapelle and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. He was assistant conductor of the Opera of Frankfurt and main conductor of the Operas of Bremen and Düsseldorf. Currently, he is musical manager and conductor of the Municipal Theatro of São Paulo in Brazil.
Ira Levin has been presented as soloist in recitals and concerts, besides performing as soloist-conductor in works of J.S. Bach, W.A. Mozart and L.v. Beethoven. In April , he conducted th Ira Levin