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Robert Levin awarded 'Golden Mozart Medal' by the International Mozarteum Foundation / OPERAWIRE

Robert Levin has performed through­­out the world, appearing with major orchestras on the Steinway and with leading period instrument orchestras on early pianos. Renowned for his impro­vised cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Levin has made recordings of a wide range of repertoire for numerous labels, including Bach’s complete keyboard concertos, the six English Suites and both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier (Hänssler Edition Bachakademie); a Mozart concerto cycle with Chris­topher Hogwood, Richard Egarr, Boyan Cicic, Laurence Cummings, and the Academy of An­cient Music for Decca/Oiseau Lyre and AAM; the Beethoven concertos with Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Roman­tique for DG Archiv; the complete piano music of Dutilleux for ECM; Bernard Rands’ Preludes and Impromptu for Bridge; and the complete Beethoven sonatas and variations for fortepiano and ’cello with Steven Isserlis for Hyperion.  Recent releases include the six Bach Partitas (Grand Prix International du Disque) the complete Schubert piano trios with Noah Bendix-Balgley and Peter Wiley (Le Palais des Dégustateurs), and the complete Mozart sonatas on Mozart’s Walter piano (ECM).
 

A passionate advocate of new music, Robert Levin has commissioned and premiered numerous of works.  He has long partnership with violist Kim Kashkashian and appears frequently with his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang, in duo recitals and with orchestra, and with cellist Steven Isserlis. A noted Mozart scholar, Mr. Levin’s completions of Mozart’s Requiem, C-minor Mass, and other unfinished works have been recorded and performed throughout the world. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig, Germany) and was awarded the Bach Medal of the City of Leipzig in 2018.  From 1993 to 2013 he was Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard Uni­versity and is presently Visiting Professor at The Juilliard School and and the Sibelius Academy, and International Chair at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London.
 

OPERAWIRE writes….Robert Levin has been awarded the Golden Mozart Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation. Levin is a pianist, teacher, composer, and performer. He is also an active music scholar and member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the International Mozarteum Foundation. From 1993 to 2013 Levin was Dwight P. Robinson Junior Professor of Music at Harvard University. He has also been visiting professor at the Juilliard School of Music and is an emeritus professor at Harvard University. He served as the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival form 2006-2017. His complete editions of Mozart’s unfinished works have been published by every major publishing house as well as being recorded and performed worldwide.
 

The Mozarteum Foundation’s president, Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg said in a press release, “Robert Levin has been closely associated with the Mozarteum Foundation for fifty years and we value him as a true friend and benefactor. He is also an exceptional artist who is second to none as a living force in the world of Mozart performances and of Mozart research. He also has a gift for communicating the fascination of Mozart in all its facets to audiences all over the globe. We offer him our heartiest congratulations.”
 

Since 1914 the Golden Mozart Medal has been awarded to distinguished individuals and institutions that have made an important contribution to our understanding of the life and works of the compser and to the work of the International Mozarteum Foundation. Past recipients have included Lilli Lehmann, Karl Böhm, the Vienna Philharmonic, Sir András Schiff, Alfred Brendel, Miloš Forman, Mitsuko Uchida, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. The two most recent recipients were Marc Minkowski, the former artistic director of the Mozart Week Festival, in 2017, and the Cappella Andrea Barca in 2019.


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