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Levingston plays Darlington
Jan 23, 2002 8:00 AM
By Stefan Eady - Faculty
Darlington School will host world-renowned pianist Bruce Levingston '79, New York, for a concert, open to the public, Feb. 22. Piano students from Darlington, who will work with Levingston in master classes earlier that day, will perform in the event at 8 p.m. in the Van Es arena located in the A.J. Huffman ’67 Memorial Center. Tickets are available through the Darlington Fine Arts Booster Club and at some local businesses including Shell’s Tales and The Music Room. For ticket sales locations or more information call 706-235-6051. Admission is $5 per adult and free for all students and Fine Arts Booster Club patrons.
Levingston has appeared as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the world with performances broadcast in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and Japan and heard on PBS, CNN, and numerous radio programs throughout the United States. Noted for “probing performances of the central romantic repertory in which high virtuosity is put to expressive ends” (San Francisco Examiner), he is also a champion of new music by some of today’s leading composers. In recent seasons, Levingston gave the world-premieres of Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Perle’s “Phantasyplay” at New York’s Lincoln Center and Bruce Saylor’s “Visions of Dante” at Carnegie Hall. This season, he gives the world premiere of Curtis Smith’s “Ghost” and “Passacaglia” Etudes in his April 1, 2002 concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
Interested in human rights since his childhood in the Mississippi Delta, Levingston has long been active in international civil and human rights organizations. During the late 1980s he gave performances to assist emerging “refusniks” from the Soviet Union; in 1990 he served as a U.S. delegate to the American Council on Germany’s Young Leaders Conference in Berlin and Hamburg; and in 1995, he gave a special performance at the United Nations in honor of the people of Denmark for their heroism during World War II.
Levingston’s early teachers included Elizabeth Buday, formerly of Shorter College, Rome, Ga., and Amanda Vick Lethco. He studied in Switzerland as a pupil of Bela Borszomenyi-Nagy, at The Royal Conservatory of Toronto with Anton Kuerti, and in New York with Morey Ritt. Levingston also attended the Aspen Music School as a guest artist and lecturer. He serves on the board of directors for the New York Philomusica Chamber Society and is chair and artistic director of the Premiere Commission for Contemporary Music. Levingston frequently writes about art and music, and his articles on the piano repertory have appeared in the quarterly Piano and Keyboard.
Levingston, a Darlington School honor graduate, was active with the tennis team, student newspaper, yearbook, and Darlington Players.
Levingston has appeared as a soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician throughout the world with performances broadcast in North America, Great Britain, Australia, and Japan and heard on PBS, CNN, and numerous radio programs throughout the United States. Noted for “probing performances of the central romantic repertory in which high virtuosity is put to expressive ends” (San Francisco Examiner), he is also a champion of new music by some of today’s leading composers. In recent seasons, Levingston gave the world-premieres of Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Perle’s “Phantasyplay” at New York’s Lincoln Center and Bruce Saylor’s “Visions of Dante” at Carnegie Hall. This season, he gives the world premiere of Curtis Smith’s “Ghost” and “Passacaglia” Etudes in his April 1, 2002 concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
Interested in human rights since his childhood in the Mississippi Delta, Levingston has long been active in international civil and human rights organizations. During the late 1980s he gave performances to assist emerging “refusniks” from the Soviet Union; in 1990 he served as a U.S. delegate to the American Council on Germany’s Young Leaders Conference in Berlin and Hamburg; and in 1995, he gave a special performance at the United Nations in honor of the people of Denmark for their heroism during World War II.
Levingston’s early teachers included Elizabeth Buday, formerly of Shorter College, Rome, Ga., and Amanda Vick Lethco. He studied in Switzerland as a pupil of Bela Borszomenyi-Nagy, at The Royal Conservatory of Toronto with Anton Kuerti, and in New York with Morey Ritt. Levingston also attended the Aspen Music School as a guest artist and lecturer. He serves on the board of directors for the New York Philomusica Chamber Society and is chair and artistic director of the Premiere Commission for Contemporary Music. Levingston frequently writes about art and music, and his articles on the piano repertory have appeared in the quarterly Piano and Keyboard.
Levingston, a Darlington School honor graduate, was active with the tennis team, student newspaper, yearbook, and Darlington Players.
