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Composer ARTHUR LEVERING has received many awards for his work including the
Rome Prize,
the Heckscher Foundation Composition Prize, a
Barlow Endowment Commission, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,
the National Endowment for the Arts, the MacDowell Colony,
and Yaddo.
Recent commissions include Boston Musica Viva, the New Juilliard Ensemble, Musica d'Oggi (Italy),
and the Rascher Saxophone Quartet (Germany). His music has been performed at New York's
Merkin Hall, Weill Hall, and Alice Tully Hall; at the Aspen Music Festival; on the
League of Composers/ISCM series, the
Los Angeles Philharmonic Green Umbrella Series,
and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Double Exposure series; as well as at concerts and festivals in Britain, France, Italy, Germany,
and Switzerland. A compact disk of his work
(School of Velocity, CRI CD 812), is available, funded in part by the
Aaron Copland Fund for Music and the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
("the best debut album by an American composer I've heard this year"—Robert Carl, Fanfare,
July/August, 1999).
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Highlights of Past Performances
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Tema (string qrt.) was played by the Boston Composers String Quartet in Rome and Imperia, Italy, in January 1992.
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Roulade (flt., hp., string trio) was performed by the British ensemble Ondine at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, in October 1992, and by Alternate Currents in San Francisco in October 1993. |
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Clarion/Shadowing (cl., vln., pno.) premiered on a NuClassix concert in Boston in November 1992 (described by the Boston Globe as "show(ing) a canny husbanding of sonorous energy with powerful motoric impulses spelled by hypnotic calms"). |
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Twenty Ways Upon the Bells (seven players), commissioned by the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble for their 20th anniversary season, premiered in Boston in October 1994 ("drop-dead gorgeous"—Boston Globe). |
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Time's Arrow (orch.) was performed by the Cleveland Chamber Symphony in Cleveland in April 1996 (described by Donald Rosenberg of the Cleveland Plain Dealer as "a cascade of fascinating ideas . . . cataclysmic climaxes and delicate nuances applied with colorful economy"). |
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School of Velocity (pno.) was played by 1991 Schubert International Piano Competition prizewinner Donald Berman at New York's Merkin Hall in March 1999 ("highly impressive . . . packed with musical energy"—Paul Griffiths, New York Times). |
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Quaterna (sax. qrt.) was premiered by the Rascher Saxophone Quartet in May 1999 in Stuttgart, Germany. |
| More recent performances include the New York premiere of
Catena (pno. and chamber orch.) by the New Juilliard Ensemble, Joel Sachs,
conductor, on November 21, 2000, at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center.
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
presented Cloches II (eight players) on February 15, 2001, on the Double Exposure Series at Lincoln Center. |
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Awards
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Heckscher Foundation Composition Prize, 1997
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Barlow Endowment Commission, 1996
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Lee Ettelson Composers Award, 1992
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Composers Guild Prize, 1990.
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Fellowships
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Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 2002
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Rome Prize Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1996-97
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NEA Fellow, 1994
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Fellow, Yaddo, 1993
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Fellow, Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, 1991
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Fellow, MacDowell Colony, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
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Fellow, Yale at Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, 1990
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Fellow, June in Buffalo Festival, 1988, 1989
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Fellow, Aspen Music Festival, 1987
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Education
Last updated: May 2003
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