Robert
Levin is an internationally-known pianist and Mozart scholar.
He has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Australia and Asia
with the orchestras of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Los
Angeles and Vienna. He is renowned for his improvised embellishments and
cadenzas in Classical period repertoire. His recordings include cycles
of the complete Bach harpsichord concertos with Helmuth Rilling and the
Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (Hänssler), the Mozart piano concertos with
Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music (Oiseau-Lyre), and
the complete Beethoven piano concertos with John Eliot Gardiner and the
Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique (DG Archiv). He has recently
begun a Mozart piano sonata cycle for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
In addition to his performing and recording activities, Levin is a noted
theorist and Mozart scholar. His completions of Mozart fragments are published
by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Carus, Peters and Wiener
Urtext; they have been recorded and performed throughout the world. His
new completion of the Mozart C-Minor Mass, commissioned by Carnegie Hall,
was premiered there under the direction of Helmuth Rilling in January
2005. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition
(Leipzig, Germany), a member of the Akademie für Mozartforschung
and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Dwight P. Robinson
Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University.
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