Avri Levitan

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Avri Levitan (*29.5.1973 in Israel) is an internationally acclaimed violist and the director and co-founder of Musethica.

Levitan grew up in Israel, where he studied in the Rubin Academy of Music in Tel-Aviv with Prof. Haim Taub and later in the Conservatoire de Paris - Cycle de Perfectionnement. Avri Levitan has established himself as a sought-after soloist, chamber musician and educator performing regularly on many of the most important world stages. He was nominated for the BBC Music Magazine Awards and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards.

He is the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Awards Nominee, and recently toured with the Nordic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anu Tali, performing Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei at the Vienna Konzerthaus Großer Saal.^[1]

Levitan performed on stages like the Vienna Konzerthaus (Austria), Berlin Philharmonie (Germany), Madrid National Auditorio (Spain), Tokio Oji Hall (Japan), Seoul Art Center (South Korea), Beijing Forbidden City Concert Hall (China), Tel Aviv National Philharmonic (Israel), Schleswig Holstein Music Festival (Germany), Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Germany), Prades Festival (France) and many more.

Avri Levitan is dedicating a large part of his musical life to educating musicians, as a professor for viola and chamber music (CSMA Zaragoza, Spain) and as a guest teacher in many institutes such as the Royal Academy of Music in London, the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, the Central Conservatory of Music and Middle School in Beijing (China), and other institutes in Europe and Asia.

"One of the worlds most important violists" wrote the critic after his performance of the William Walton viola concerto with the Lodz Philharmonic in February 2010.^[2] He collaborated with artists such as Claude Frank, Pnina Salzman, Roland Pontinen, Staffan Scheja, Bengt Forsberg, Wolfram Rieger, Peter Jablonski, Pavel Glilov, Gérard Poulet, Zachar Bron, Guy Braunstein, Ulf Wallin, Arve Tellefsen, Jan Stanienda, Bernard Greenhouse, Gary Hoffman, Alexander Rudin, Torleif Thedeen, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Nikolai Dyadura, Noam Sharif and Agnieszka Duczmal.

In 2009 conceived the Musethica concept which was officially launched in 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain. He is directing all the musical activities in the ten countries Musethica currently is active. The central tenet of Musethica is to create a model for excellent music students to perform on a regular basis for different audiences, to people who do not typically attend traditional concert halls.

References[]

• Seoul International Music Festival^{[permanent dead link]}
• Friedberger Musiksommer
• MDG Peteris Vasks – Trio Parnassus, Avri Levitan – viola

Recordings[]

• MDG Peteris Vasks Trio Parnassus, Avri Levitan – viola

External links[]

• Avri Levitan Official web site
• Musethica Official web site