Ira Levin is known internationally for the great versatility of his musical activities. He has conducted well over a thousand performances of 75 operatic titles and is equally at home in concert, with a vast symphonic repertoire. He is an award winning concert pianist and recording artist and was a pupil and the teaching assistant of the legendary Jorge Bolet at the Curtis Institue of Music. His 40 publications as composer-arranger include orchestrations of  major works by Liszt, Franck, Busoni, Reger, Rachmaninoff and Respighi, piano transcriptions and cadenzas to several Mozart piano concertos.

He was the principal guest conductor of the legendary Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires from 2011-2015, where he conducted 12 major opera productions, including works by Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Puccini, Rachmaninoff, Strauss and Prokofiev as well as the American premieres of Enescu’s Oedipe, Prokofiev’s The Fiery Angel and Glanert’s Caligula, and several symphonic programs. He was the Music and Artistic director of the Teatro Municipal in Sao Paulo and the Teatro National in Brasilia, the principal conductor of the Deustche Oper am Rhein and the Bremen Opera and principal guest conductor of the Kassel Opera. He has been guest conductor of many important orchestras and opera houses, such as Dresden, Leipzig and Geneva and worked with many of the world’s leading instrumentalists, singers and stage directors.

He has recorded several CDs to great critical acclaim with the London Symphony, Royal Scottish National Symphony, the Norrlands Symphony Orchestra and of his own piano transcriptions.

Ira Levin will make his US operatic debut in March-April 2017 at the Rose Theater of Lincoln Center, conducting Respighi's brilliant and rarely heard "La campana sommersa" in the first season of the newly re-organized New York City Opera. These will be the first performances of that work in NY since 1929.

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