Max Levinson

Max Levinson has performed as soloist with the St. Louis, Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Oregon, Indianapolis, Colorado, New World, San Antonio, Louisville, and Utah Symphonies, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Boston Pops, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, and in recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, Washington D.C.’s Kennedy Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, Zürich’s Tonhalle, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. Mr. Levinson’s international career was launched when he won first prize at the 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition. He is also recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and the Andrew Wolf Award. 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, Massachusetts, Mr. Levinson is an active chamber musician. He has performed with the Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn, and Borromeo Quartets, and appears at major music festivals including Santa Fe, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Bravo/Vail, La Jolla, Seattle and Cartagena. His recordings have earned wide acclaim, including his most recent recording with violinist Stefan Jackiw of the three Brahms sonatas (Sony). Mr. Levinson is chair of the piano department at the Boston Conservatory and also a faculty member at the New England Conservatory. Born in the Netherlands and raised in Los Angeles, Mr. Levinson began studying piano at age five. As a child he also studied cello, composition and conducting. He attended Harvard University, graduating cum laude with a degree in English Literature, and later completed his graduate studies with Patricia Zander at the New England Conservatory of Music, receiving an Artist Diploma and the Gunther Schuller Medal, an award given to the school’s top graduate student. He has been a BCMS member musician since 2016.