Dec
04
Sun December 4th, 2016
2:00PM
Minimum Age: All Ages
Doors Open: 1:00PM
Show Time: 2:00PM
Event Ticket: $15 / $20
Day of Show: $20 / $25
Table Seating: $20 advance, $25 day of show
Standing Room: $15 advance, $20 day of show
“Visceral and imaginative performances…” The Washington Post
“His enviable technique and high musicianship shines like a beacon through his performances…” Classical Guitar
Following his successful 2013 New York solo recital debut at LPR, award-winning American classical guitarist ADAM LEVIN returns with a new program celebrating his major artistic collaboration with 30 living Spanish composers, from the nation’s most recognized luminaries to the brilliant voices of the current generation. Levin’s development of new Spanish music for guitar is being released on the critically acclaimed series, 21st Century Spanish Guitar on the Naxos label, with the second volume recently released in October, 2016. The program includes the New York City premieres of six works dedicated to Adam Levin, all written between 2010 and 2015.
CARLOS CRUZ DE CASTRO: Sequencia Sefardita
ANTON GARCIA-ABRIL: Trimountain
EDUARDO MORALES-CASO: Yemanjá Sonata
MARC LOPEZ GODOY: Elegía Otoñal
LEONARDO BALADA: Caprichos No. 12, Abstractions of “El Amor Brujo” de Falla
SALVADOR BROTONS: Dues Noves Suggestions
Ticketing Policy
TABLE SEATING POLICY
Table seating for all seated shows is reserved exclusively for ticket holders who purchase “Table Seating” tickets. By purchasing a “Table Seating” ticket you agree to also purchase a minimum of two food and/or beverage items per person. Table seating is first come, first seated. Please arrive early for the best choice of available seats. Seating begins when doors open. Tables are communal so you may be seated with other patrons. We do not take table reservations.
A standing room area is available by the bar for all guests who purchase “Standing Room” tickets. Food and beverage can be purchased at the bar but there is no minimum purchase required in this area.
All tickets sales are final. No refund or credits.
Adam Levin
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Adam Levin has been praised by renowned American guitarist Eliot Fisk as a “virtuoso guitarist and a true 21st century renaissance man with the élan, intelligence, charm, tenacity and conviction to change the world” and the Washington Post for his “visceral and imaginative performance.” Mr. Levin has performed throughout the United States, Europe, and South America, at renowned venues such as New York City’s Le Poisson Rouge, Atlanta’s Spivey Hall, Chicago’s Pick Staiger Hall, Boston’s Fraser Studio at WGBH, Jordan Hall, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the Palazzo Chigi Saracini in Italy, the Berlin Universität für Musik und darstellende Künst, the Barcelona Auditorio Axa, and in Madrid at the Fundacion Juan March, Palacio de Godoy, BBVA Palacio del Marqués de Salamanca, and Sala Manuel de Falla. Levin has also performed with orchestras in Illinois, Connecticut, Bogota, Colombia, South America.
The recipient of numerous top prizes, Adam Levin has been recognized by Associación Cultural Trujamán, the Society of American Musicians, the Lake Forest Concerto Competition, Minnesota’s Schubert Competition, Boston GuitarFest, and Certamen Internacional Luys Milan de Guitarra in Valencia. In 2008, Levin was honored as a Fulbright Scholar in the field of music performance, researching contemporary Spanish guitar repertoire in Madrid, Spain. He was awarded the Program for Cultural Cooperation Fellowship, promoting cultural understanding between Spain and the United States and the Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship, for research and performance of contemporary Spanish music in Madrid. Levin has commissioned over 30 solo guitar works from four generations of Spanish composers and has a four-disc recording contract with Naxos to document all of these works.
A native of Chicago’s North Shore, Levin holds BM and BA degrees from Northwestern University in Music Performance, Psychology, and Pre-Med. Under the tutelage of Eliot Fisk, Levin completed a MM at New England Conservatory in Boston. His esteemed teachers have included Oscar Ghiglia, Gabriel Estarellas, Anne Waller, Mark Maxwell, and Paul Henry. Levin is co-director of the annual Boston Young Guitarists Workshop, co-founder of the non-profit organization Kithara Project, and teaches guitar at University of Massachusetts-Boston and the University of Rhode Island. Adam Levin is a D’Addario Artist and performs on a guitar by luthier Stephan Connor. For more information, visit Photo credit: Tatiana Daubek