Frank Levy

Frank Lévy

Pianist Frank Lévy has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as an artist of rare poetic insight and communicative powers. A semi-finalist in the Leeds and Clara Haskil international piano competitions, Frank Lévy has an international career as a recitalist performing in Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Gusman Hall in Miami, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, The Gardner Hall in Salt Lake City, and the Stadthaussaal in Winterthur. He has performed under the batons of Louis Langrée, Mehli Mehta, Paul Dunkel, David Josefowitz, Cornelia Kodkani-Laemmli, Ya-Hui Wang, Martin Stüder and other conductors.

Biography:

An active chamber musician, Mr. Lévy has performed at the Marlboro Music Festival, the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Tibor-Varga Festival in Switzerland, the Alex de Vries Festival in Belgium, and the Thonon Festival in France. Frank Lévy collaborates with The Jupiter Symphony Chamber Players, The Music of the Spheres Society, The Alcan Quartet and Quatuor Arthur-Leblanc.

Mr. Lévy is recording complete piano works of Schubert and Brahms for the Canadian label, Palexa. Frank Lévy's recordings and live performances have been broadcast by WQXR in New York City, the BBC in London, the RSR in Switzerland and the CBC in Canada.

Mr. Lévy has been a member of the Juilliard School Pre-College faculty since 1995 and is currently on the faculty of the CUNY Graduate Center and the International Keyboard Institute and Festival at Mannes College. Frank Lévy is regularly invited to give master classes and lectures at the University of Miami, Barry University, the University of Utah for Gina Bachauer Foundation, Florida International University, Bishop's University in Canada and at the Geneva and Bern Conservatories. Mr. Lévy has served as an adjudicator on many competitions in the United States and Europe, including the Murray Dranoff International Two Piano Competition.

Frank Lévy, who grew up in Switzerland, entered the Geneva Conservatory at the age of fifteen and earned his bachelors and masters degrees studying with renowned pianist and pedagogue Louis Hiltbrand, and a doctorate in performance studying with Maria Tipo. After winning the Kiefer Hablitzel Prize, Frank Lévy went on to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, from which he received the Artist Diploma in 1990. He studied collaborative piano with Samuel Sanders and Margo Garrett in the Professional Studies Program at the Juilliard School, where he also worked with Emanuel Ax. Mr. Lévy also studied with Vlado Perlemuter in Paris, Dorothy Taubman in New York, Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia in London.

Frank Lévy lives in New York City with his wife, Ilana, and two children, Dalia and David. For information about Frank Lévy's upcoming concerts, please visit his website at www.FrankLevy.com.