A recipient of the Andrew Wolf Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and first prize in the 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition, the first American to achieve this distinction, MAX LEVINSON teaches Collaborative Skills to piano majors and coaches chamber music ensembles at New England Conservatory. Levinson has appeared as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Paul Chamber and Boston Pops orchestras, as well as the St. Louis, Detroit, San Francisco, Baltimore, Oregon, Indianapolis, Colorado, and Utah symphony orchestras. He has performed in chamber music concerts with Pinchas Zukerman, Richard Stoltzman, Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn and Borromeo Quartets and has appeared at major music festivals, including the Santa Fe, Marlboro, Tanglewood, and Mostly Mozart. Levinson has given recitals throughout the U.S. and Europe in such venues as New York's Alice Tully Hall, Washington D.C.'s Kennedy Center, London's Wigmore Hall, Zürich's Tonhalle, Musée d'Orsay (Paris) and NEC's Jordan Hall. Recordings of his work can be found on N2K Encoded Music, Warner Classics, and Stereophile record labels. On the faculty of the New England Conservatory the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Levinson is also artistic director for the San Juan Festival (Colorado) and has instructed master classes at Harvard, the Royal Irish Academy, MIT, the University of Washington, Rutgers, and Brigham Young University. Born in the Netherlands and raised in Los Angeles, Levinson began studying piano at age five. He attended Harvard University, graduating cum laude with a degree in English Literature, and later completed his graduate studies at the New England Conservatory of Music.