Arthur Levering
Arthur Levering is an American composer of contemporary classical music. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Levering has received commissions from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Musica Viva, the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Rascher Saxophone Quartet, and Sequitur, among others.
Early life
Levering was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He holds a B.A. from Colby College ; an M.M. in performance from Yale University, having studied classical guitar with Eliot Fisk; and an M.M. in composition from Boston University, having studied primarily with Bernard Rands.Awards
- 2010 Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard commission
- 2002 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
- 1997 Rome Prize in music composition
- 1997 Heckscher Foundation Composition Prize
- 1996 Barlow Endowment commission
- 1994 National Endowment for the Arts commission
- 1992 Lee Ettelson Composer's Award
- 1990 Composer's Guild prize
- MacDowell Colony fellow
- Yaddo residency
Major Compositions, selected performances
His virtuosic 3 movement piano work, School of Velocity, was commissioned and performed by Donald Berman on a League of Composers/ISCM concert at Merkin Hall, New York on March 23, 1999. Echoi was premiered by Nicholas Kitchen and Donald Berman in Boston on Oct. 20, 2003. Clarion/Shadowing was performed by the 21st Century Consort at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC on March 13, 2004. Twenty Ways Upon the Bells was premiered by Dinosaur Annex in Boston on Oct. 30, 1994. Cloches II was performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Feb. 15, 2001. Furies was premiered by Sequitur at Merkin Hall in New York on Jan. 30, 2008. Catena was premiered by Donald Berman and the Dinosaur Annex Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Scott Wheeler at Jordan Hall, Boston on Sept. 16, 2000. Parallel Universe was performed and recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at Jordan Hall, Boston on May 25, 2007. Il Mare Dentro was commissioned and premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on September 21, 2008.Recordings
- School of Velocity includes: Twenty Ways Upon the Bells, Clarion/Shadowing, School of Velocity, Roulade, Uncle Inferno, Cloches II.
- Still Raining, Still Dreaming includes: Still Raining Still Dreaming, Echoi, Sppooo, Tesserae, Catena.
- Americans in Rome, Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome includes: Tesserae.
- Parallel Universe includes: Furies, Il Mare Dentro, Drinking Songs, Partite sopra Ciaccona, Parallel Universe.
- OceanRiverLake includes: OceanRiverLake, Giocattolo, Squeezebox, Garland for Steven Stucky.