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By Jane Dumont
Washington DC Temple Visitors Center Piano Weekend
WASHINGTON, DC -- Max Levinson, 28 year old American pianist, will be
the featured Guest Artist for the opening of the Piano Festival, at
7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27, at the Washington D.C. Temple Visitors'
Center, 9900 Stoneybrook Drive, Kensington, Md. His program will
include Schumann's "Symphonic Etudes, Op. 13," and Beethoven's
"Variations on a Waltz" by Diabelli in C Major, Op. 120.
Mr. Levinson is the winner of the 1997 Guardian Dublin International
Piano Competition, the first American to achieve this distinction. He
then received critical acclaim for his two solo recordings and was
awarded the prestigious Avery Fisher Career Grant in March 1999. In
1997, he was named "Best Debut Artist" by the Boston Globe and was
added to Steinway's distinguished roster of artists.
He is featured this season as a guest soloist with the San Francisco
Symphony, the St. Louis Symphony, the Royal Dublin Philharmonic, the
New World Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, and the Indianapolis
Symphony. Also he will perform recitals in New York, Boston, Los
Angeles, Vancouver, Zurich and Hanover.
Among his many CDs are two critically acclaimed recordings of Brahms,
Schumann, Bartok, Schoenberg and Leon Kircher. In recent seasons he
has given debut recitals in London, Paris, Chicago, and the Kennedy
Center in Washington, D.C.
The program is free and open to the public. For information, call the
Visitors' Center at 301-587-0144
SATURDAY, APRIL 28th 7:00 pm -- Young Artist Piano Recital
The public is cordially invited to attend the continuation of the
Piano Festival at 7 p.m. on Saturday, April 28. Young piano artists
18 years and younger, of Level IV proficiency or greater, will
perform.
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