Michael Lewin enjoys a distinguished international reputation as one of America’s most gifted and charismatic concert pianists, performing in 30 countries as orchestral soloist and in recital. His career was launched with victories in the Franz Liszt International Piano Competition in the Netherlands (1986), the American Pianists Association Beethoven Award (1983), and the William Kapell International Competition (1982). He has also won prestigious career grants from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Aaron Copland Recording Fund. Mr. Lewin made a notable New York recital debut in Lincoln Center in 1984, on which occasion the New York Times wrote that “his immense technique and ability qualify him eminently for success”. His solo performances since then have taken him to such venues as New York’s Lincoln Center, Boston's Symphony Hall, Pasadena's Ambassador Auditorium, the Library of Congress, the Great Hall in Moscow, Hong Kong's City Hall Theater, Taipei's National Concert Hall, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Wilmington's Grand Opera House, the Athens Megaron, the Opera House of Cairo, Holland’s Muziekcentrum Vredenburg and the Spoleto Festival. Orchestral engagements include the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, Bucharest Philharmonic, Filharmónica de Guadalajara, the Thessaloniki State Symphony of Greece, the Boston Pops Orchestra, the Symphonies of Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, Colorado, Nevada, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, North Carolina, Sinfonia da Camera, the Jupiter Symphony, and the Youth Orchestra of the Americas. He performs 40 different piano concertos. In 2000 he gave the world premiere of the David Kocsis Concerto for the New Millennium. Television appearances include a PBS Television recital hosted by Victor Borge that has been aired often throughout the United States. He has been the featured interview in Clavier and Piano & Keyboard magazines. A Steinway Artist, he was Artistic Director of the 150th Anniversary Steinway Artists Gala Concert held in 2003 in Boston’s Symphony Hall. Michael Lewin’s solo recordings on Naxos, Marco Polo and Centaur have received extraordinary critical praise, and reflect the great breadth of his musical passions. His newest release is Bamboula! Piano Music by Louis Moreau Gottschalk. Bamboula! was chosen as a “Top 10 Pick” by the Boston Herald; the Boston Globe enthused that “Lewin has the chops and the charm for these pieces.” His Naxos releases include a collection of Piano Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti and the first recordings of the complete piano music of American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes (in two volumes). Mr. Lewin's earlier recordings, Michael Lewin plays Liszt and A Russian Piano Recital featuring music of Scriabin, Glazunov andBalakirev, are available on Centaur. His recording of the Violin and Piano Sonatas of William Bolcom with violinist Irina Muresanu will be released on Centaur in the fall of 2007. The Lewin-Muresanu Duo has maintained an active performance schedule since their formation in 2003. Mr. Lewin’s 2007-08 concert season includes solo and orchestral appearances throughout the United States, Canada, Italy, Greece and Puerto Rico. Recital programs will feature music spanning three centuries that is inspired by birds, in preparation for his upcoming recording “If I Were a Bird.” In addition to his concert career Mr. Lewin is one of America’s most sought-after teachers, and he has a select studio of gifted pianists at The Boston Conservatory, where he is Chair of Piano. A native of New York, he studied at the Juilliard School. His teachers included Leon Fleisher, Irwin Freundlich, Adele Marcus, and Yvonne Lefébure.
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