Robert Levin Featured in Cambridge Who's Who
Robert Levin has dedicated his life to his passion for music

CAMBRIDGE, MA, July 19, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Robert Levin, Professor at Harvard University, has been recognized by Cambridge Who's Who for demonstrating dedication, leadership and excellence in musicology.

Pianist Robert Levin is one of America's leading keyboard players in the early instruments movement, but he maintains a large repertoire in all major periods and genres of piano music. He is equally at home at the harpsichord, the fortepiano, and the standard pianoforte, and as a recitalist, concerto performer, and accompanist. In addition, he is recognized as an authoritative scholar on the Classical and Baroque periods.

Perhaps best known as a Mozart pianist and scholar, Mr. Levin has written cadenzas to many of the masters' concertos, (including those for violin and winds). His numerous reconstructions and completions of Mozart works have been published and performed all over the world. His completion of Mozart's "Requiem" won him wide critical acclaim after its premiere by Helmuth Rilling at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart in August 1991. His reconstruction of the K. 297B sinfonia concertante for four winds and orchestra is now frequently performed. Mr. Levin has published numerous scholarly studies, many of which concern performance practice and authenticity. He has recorded on several labels, including Archiv, Decca, ECM and Sony Classical Vivarte series.

Despite his immense keyboard gifts as a child, Mr. Levin initially decided to focus primarily on composition, studying in New York with composer Stefan Wolpe from 1957 to 1961. He then took piano instruction from Louis Martin over the next three years, also in New York City. Concurrent with this activity, Levin studied composition under Nadia Boulanger and piano with Alice Gaultier-Leon at the Fontainebleau Conservatoire Americain in France. It is noteworthy that all of this advanced training took place while Levin was still in high school.

Following the completion of a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, which he received with highest honors, Mr. Levin was invited by Rudolf Serkin to head the theory department of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

Four years later, he took on a professorship at Purchase College, which he concurrently held until he departed his Curtis post in 1973. He remained at Purchase until 1986, but assumed a second position during his tenure there at the Fontainebleau Conservatoire, from 1979 to1983, through the invitation of former teacher, Boulanger.

In 1986, he became a professor of piano at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Freiburg, Breisgau, Germany. He resigned from this position in 1993 when he was appointed a professor at Harvard University. He now occupies the chair of the Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at this institution.

Press Release Contact Information:

Ellen Campbell
Cambridge Who's Who
Public Relations
498 RXR Plaza, West Tower
Uniondale, NY
USA 11556
Voice: 516-535-1515 x4266
Website: Visit Our Website