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Ravinia debut
ROBERT LEVIN,
piano
Pianist and conductor Robert Levin has been
heard throughout the United States, Europe,
Australia, and Asia. His solo engagements in-
clude the orchestras of Atlanta, Berlin, Bir-
mingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit,
Los Angeles, Montreal, Utah, and Vienna on
the Steinway with such conductors as Semyon
Bychkov, James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Nev-
ille Marriner, Seiji Ozawa, Simon Rattle, and
Esa-Pekka Salonen. On period pianos, he has
appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music,
English Baroque Soloists, Handel & Haydn So-
ciety, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment,
and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Roman-
tique alongside conductors John Eliot Gardin-
er, Christopher Hogwood, Charles Mackerras,
Nicholas McGegan, and Roger Norrington.
Renowned for his improvised embellishments
and cadenzas in Classical-period repertoire,
Levin has been a featured artist on recordings
for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca, Deutsche Grammo-
phon, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, ECM, New
York Philomusica, Nonesuch, Philips, and Sony
Classical. ese include Mozart’s complete con-
certos for Decca; Beethoven complete concertos
for DG Archiv, including the world-premiere
recording of Beethoven’s arrangement of his
Fourth Concerto for piano and string quintet;
and Bach’s complete harpsichord concertos with
Helmuth Rilling, as well as his six English Suites
on piano and both books of
e Well-Tempered
Clavier
on ve keyboard instruments as part of
Hänssler’s
-CD
Edition Bachakademie
.
e
rst recording in a cycle of Mozart’s piano sona-
tas has also been released by Deutsche Harmo-
nia Mundi. A thoroughgoing musicologist and
theorist in addition to a renowned chamber mu-
sician, Levin has completed numerous Mozart
fragments and published them with Bärenreiter,
Breitkopf & Härtel, Carus, Peters, and Wiener
Urtext Edition, and he has performed and re-
corded them around the world. He is also a pas-
sionate advocate of new music, having commis-
sioned and premiered a large number of works.
Robert Levin has previously performed at Ra-
vinia in
and
, also joining the faculty
of Ravinia’s Steans Music Institute both of those
years, as well as in
,
, and this summer.
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