Gerald Levinson

Gerald Levinson ( born 1951 in Connecticut ) is an American composer.

Levinson studied with George Crumb, George Rochberg and Richard Wernick at the University of Pennsylvania, Ralph Shapey at the University of Chicago and with Olivier Messiaen at the Conservatoire de Paris. He then worked as an assistant and translator for Messiaen. Since 1977 he has been Professor of Music at Swarthmore College. 1979-80 and 1982-82 he studied in Bali as a Henry Luce Foundation Scholar and Guggenheim Fellow Balinese music.

In 1990, Levinson Academy Award for Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 1997 he was one with his composition Five Fires that was sent internationally by the BBC, to the semi-finalists of the international composition competition of London. With the same factory Levinson won the 1998 Prix de Composition Musicale International Arthur Honegger.

Levinson's 2nd Symphony, commissioned by the Koussevitzky Founfation, 1995 premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. For the Inauguration concert Christoph Eschenbach as head of the Philadelphia Orchestra in 2003, he composed the orchestral work avatar. At the dedication of the Fred J. Cooper Memorial Organ in the Kimmel Center for performing arts was created in 2006 Toward Light.

Works

  • Bronze Music for Concert Band
  • Quintet for Piano and Strings, " O ancient scent ... "
  • Light dances / stones singing, music for 18 players
  • Suono Oscuro for large orchestra
  • In Dark (Three poems of the night ) for soprano and seven players, 1972
  • Odyssey for solo flute, 1973
  • Duo: Winds of Light for Violin and Piano, 1973
  • Sky Music for 13 Players, 1974-75
  • Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano, 1976
  • Two Poems for large orchestra, 1976, 1977
  • From Erebus and Black Night for English Horn and Orchestra, 1979
  • Black Magic / White Magic in 12 Short Movements for soprano and seven players, 1981
  • For the Morning of the World Suite for Chamber Orchestra, 1983
  • Anahata: Symphony No.. 1, 1984-86
  • Fanfare ( for Boyd Barnard ) for two trumpets, 1985
  • Morningstar, chorale for piano four- hands, 1988
  • DreamLight for cello, piano and percussion, 1990
  • Sea Changes, 1990-91
  • Symphony No.. 2, 1992-94
  • Five Fires for orchestra, 1995
  • Consolation for Voice and Piano, 1997
  • Time and the Bell ... for solo piano and chamber ensemble, 1998
  • Here of amazing most now, twelve instrumental miniatures in honor of George Crumb's 70th birthday, 1999
  • Mountain Light for band, 2000
  • Ragamalika, four pieces for piano, 2001
  • At the Still Point of the Turning World, There the Dance Is for chamber ensemble, 2002
  • Avatar for orchestra, 2003
  • Toward Light for Organ and Orchestra, 2006

Swell

  • Theodore Press Company - Gerald Levinson
  • Swarthmore Music Department - Faculty
  • University of Chicago - Gerald Levinson
  • American composer
  • Born in 1951
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