Max Levinson Piano
Present
SCMS Debut: 2004 Summer Festival
Pianist Max Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless technique. Levinson’s career was launched when he won First Prize at the Guardian Dublin International Piano Competition, the first American to achieve this distinction, and was awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant. Artistic Director of the San Juan Chamber Music Festival (in Ouray, Colorado) and former Co-Artistic Director of the Janus 21 Concert Series in Cambridge, Massachussetts, Levinson is an active chamber musician. He has appeared at major music festivals including Mostly Mozart, Santa Fe, Marlboro, Tanglewood, La Jolla, Bravo/Vail, Perugia, Chichibu, Killington, Vancouver, Cartagena, and Switzerland’s Davos Festival. His most recent recordings are the Brahms Sonatas for Violin and Piano, with violinist Stefan Jackiw, the Brahms Horn Trio with the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, and the violin sonatas of Debussy, Janácek, and Prokofiev with violinist Andrew Kohji Taylor. Levinson is Chair of the Piano Department at the Boston Conservatory, and is also a faculty member at the New England Conservatory. He attended Harvard University, graduating with a degree in English Literature, and completed his graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.