Yoav Levanon
Yoav Levanon
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Yoav Levanon

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“The 21st Century has brought us many piano child prodigies from all over the world. A young Israeli pianist, Yoav Levanon, however, with experience of performing at Carnegie Hall at 7, prefers not to be labeled as such. After an interview with Yoav, I understood why.
His answers are full of insight and maturity. As one music critic referred to him as ‘a big artist in a small body’. Now it is your turn to discover Yoav Levanon.”
— Esther Basha, Piano Performer Magazine, “Generation Z: The Story of Yoav”, September 2016
 

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“... Yoav’s style of piano playing is bewildering: it’s filled with both a rare sensitivity and a rigorous technique, and he grasps each note even in the most virtuous passages. He’s aware of phrases, rhythm, shapes, and dynamics, thanks to his noble and clear touch. He takes a distance stand from the most recent interpretations, piano tight-rope walkers, and media-sponsored sideshows. His style can be compared to that of the legendary Arthur Rubinstein ...
... All this sounds like a miracle if you consider that it came from an 11 year-old talent child, the first young performer in the history of the San Carlo theatre …”
— Paola De Simone, Dec 2015, Napoli, Italy
 
 

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“Since the first notes of the Chopin Concerto n° 1 in mi minor for piano and orchestra op. 11 you can tell how mature the execution is going to be: his touch is delicate and sweet, melodious and embracing, confident and virtuous ... Then the concert ends; the audience’s applause is unanimous and deafening; there is no face in the theatre that doesn’t show enthusiasm for having enjoyed moments of fine music.”
— GBOPERA Magazine, December 2015, Napoli, Italy

YOAV LEVANON

“At the age of 19, Israeli pianist Yoav Levanon already shows tremendous power and maturity”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung commented on the young pianist’s impressive appearance at the 2022 Europa Open Air in Frankfurt where he performed Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Alain Altinoglu. The televised concert took place in front of an audience of 25,000 at site and almost half a million viewers worldwide.

Following debuts at Boulez-Saal Berlin, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Munich's Prinzregententheater, Settimane Musicali di Ascona and Menuhin Festival in Gstaad last season, in 2023/24 the exceptional young artist will be performing piano recitals at Tonhalle Zürich and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg. Orchestral engagements take him to the Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, the Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orquesta de la Communidad de Madrid. He also returns to the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, with whom he will perform Franz Liszt's piano concertos in concert and record them on CD for Warner Classics under the direction of Michael Sanderling.

Previous appearances include a solo performance in a “Piano Summit” presented by Martha Argerich at Schloss Elmau followed by a recital at the Piano aux Jacobins Festival in Toulouse and a recital at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. His performance was highly praised in a critic in Diapason: “Yoav Levanon is not only a stunning virtuoso. His assertive interpretative choices already make him an authentic musician, who has everything to become one of the major pianists of this century.”

At the beginning of 2021, Yoav Levanon took part in a filmed project with Daniel Barenboim and soon after he signed an exclusive recording agreement with Warner Classics. His debut album A Monument for Beethoven with the label was released in May 2022. It attracted great attention from reviewers worldwide and garnered many excellent reviews.

Yoav Levanon first appeared on stage at the age of 4 and soon became a winner of his first National Piano Competition in Israel. He won his first Gold Medal at an International Piano Competition in the USA a year later and performed on the prestigious stage of Carnegie Hall in New York. Following his orchestral debut with the Israel Chamber Orchestra he went on to take part in the Tsinandali Festival, Georgia, where he played Mozart and Bach Concertos for Two Pianos and Orchestra with acclaimed pianist Sergei Babayan. Later he received the ‘”Young Talent Award” of the Fundación Excelentia and performed in a ceremony at the National Auditorium Madrid in the presence of Queen Sofia. During 2018 Yoav performed Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2019, Yoav appeared as one of the youngest pianists ever in the festival history of the renowned Verbier Festival and was celebrated a "discovery". His debut solo recital, broadcast globally on medici.tv, gained the largest online audience of any of the 2019 Festival’s events.

Yoav Levanon is guided by top piano professors and musicians in Israel and abroad. He was privileged to take part in the ‘Piano Program for Outstanding Young Pianists’ at the Jerusalem Music Center, working with the prestigious American concert pianist Murray Perahia as well as working under the guidance of distinguished pianist Sir Andras Schiff in his artist performance studio at the Barenboim-Said Academy in Berlin.

“We are witnessing a musician whose artistic sensitivity is mature. His version of Chopin is not only virtuoso, but also poetic, delicate, and it exhibits characteristics of pure sublime. The young virtuoso performs with freshness and maturity at the same time; his feelings seep through the music. Yoav is an artist that stands out because of his natural and transparent emotions. His feelings are palpable, alive, wrapped in a total surrender to the music like only a child could do.”
— Francesco Russo, December 2015, Napoli, Italy

CONTACT

General Management : Harrison Parrott
Sabine Frank
Sabine.Frank@harrisonparrott.de

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