Pianist Robert Levin has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Australia, and in Asia. He has performed with the orchestras of Berlin, Birmingham, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Melbourne, Montreal and Vienna on the Steinway with conductors including James Conlon, Bernard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Seiji Ozawa and Sir Simon Rattle. On fortepiano, he has appeared with the Academy of Ancient Music, the London Classical Players, the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique with conductors Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Mackerras, Sir Roger Norrington and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Renowned for his improvised embellishments and cadenzas in Classical period repertoire, Robert Levin has made recordings for DG Archiv, CRI, Decca/London, Deutsche Grammophon Yellow Label, ECM, Nonesuch, Philips and SONY Classical. His discography includes a Mozart concerto cycle with Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music and a Beethoven concerto cycle for DG Archiv with John Eliot Gardiner and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique (including the world premiere recording of Beethoven’s arrangement of the Fourth Concerto for piano and string quintet together with his arrangement of the Second Symphony for piano trio). He has recorded the complete Bach harpsichord concertos with Helmuth Rilling as well as the six English Suites (on piano) and both books of the Well-Tempered Clavier (on five keyboard instruments) as part of Hänssler’s 172-CD Edition Bachakademie.
Robert Levin’s active career as a chamber musician includes long associations with the violist Kim Kashkashian and the New York Philomusica.
In addition to his performing activities, Robert Levin is a noted theorist and Mozart scholar, and is the author of a number of articles and essays on Mozart. A member of the Zentralinstitut für Mozartforschung, his completions of Mozart fragments are published by Bärenreiter, Breitkopf & Härtel, Hänssler, and Peters, and recorded and performed throughout the world. His new completion of the Mozart C-minor mass, commissioned by Carnegie Hall, will be premiered there under the direction of Helmuth Rilling in January 2005. He is President of the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition (Leipzig. Germany), a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.