16 - 22 July 2023

The American pianist Robert Levin performs all over the world.  On the concert grand, he has performed with the orchestras of all the greatest orchestras from Europe, North and South America, Asia, and Australia; on the fortepiano, with renowned early music orchestras. His revival of the practice of improvised cadenzas and ornaments in the Viennese Classical period has been recognized worldwide. Recordings have appeared on many labels, including complete recordings of Mozart's piano concertos with Christopher Hogwood and The Academy of Ancient Music and of Beethoven with John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, all of Mozart's piano sonatas on his own fortepiano, and many others.
A passionate advocate of new music, Robert Levin has received numerous commissions and premieres. His active work as a chamber musician includes a long collaboration with violist Kim Kashkashian and a duo with his wife, pianist Ya-Fei Chuang. In addition to his concert activities, Robert Levin is a music theorist and Mozart expert. His additions to unfinished compositions by Mozart, including the Requiem and the Mass in C Minor, have been published, recorded, and performed around the world. From 2007 to 2016, Robert Levin was Artistic Director of the Sarasota/FL Music Festival.  He is President of the Johann Sebastian Bach International Competition and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  From 1993 to 2014 he was Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of Humanities at Harvard University and holds visiting professorships at the Juilliard School New York, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama London, and the Sibelius Academy Helsinki.

Full biography can be found here.

Preselection: Two works from different musical periods (YouTube link)
Beginning of the master class: 26.07.2023, 10:00 am
Course Languages: German, English
Orchestra Studio (as soloist, free choice of works): 22 July 2023
 

The course is aimed at soloists as well as existing piano chamber ensembles.

Registration fee: 80 Euros
Active participation: 370 Euros
These fees also apply to ensembles.
Orchestra Studio: 50 Euros

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Registration for this course is no longer possible.

Accommodation Offer

Period: 15 – 23 July 2023 (8 nights)

Leonardo Hotel

• ½ Double room: 232 Euros (not incl. breakfast)
• Single room: 392 Euros (not incl. breakfast)

Concerts

Robert D. Levin: 19.07.2023, 7:30 pm, Festsaal Fürstenhaus
Participants: 21.07.2023, 4:00 pm, Forum Seebach
Participants: 21.07.2023, 6:00 pm, Schießhaus Weimar