Robert Levin

Guest Artist

Pianist ROBERT LEVIN'S performances as a soloist and in chamber concerts have been acclaimed throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia. His free fantasies in Mozart's style, invented at the moment using themes written by the audience, and his improvised cadenzas have dazzled audiences and critics alike. He is equally at home at the harpsichord, the fortepiano, and the standard pianoforte, and as a recitalist, concerto performer, and accompanist. He occupies the chair of Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard.
Levin's repertoire ranges from the Elizabethan masters to Boulez and Harbison. He has performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Montreal, and Vienna, appearing in recital in New York, London, Tokyo, and in numerous European cities. Festival appearances include Sarasota, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Bremen, and Lockenhaus. He has been pianist of the New York Philomusica since 1971, and has been a regular performer at the Oregon Bach Festival since 1999.
A recognized theorist and Mozart scholar, Levin's completions of Mozart fragments have been published, recorded and performed throughout the world. A monograph detailing the history of the Symphonie Concertante in E-flat and the process of its reconstruction by Levin has been hailed as a musicological thriller.
In August 1991, Helmuth Rilling premièred Levin's new version of the Mozart Requiem at the European Music Festival in Stuttgart, Germany, to a standing ovation. It subsequently has been recorded three times and heard throughout the world, including at the Oregon Bach Festival in 1995, 1997, and in 2004.

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