Avri has recently been nominated to the Royal Philharmonic Society Awards 2012.
„One of the world's most important violists“ - wrote the critic after Avri Levitan's performance of the William Walton viola concerto with the Lodz Philharmonic in Februrary 2010.
The Guardian: 67th Venice Film Festival 2010 Awards: „K. 364 a journey by train“ - best music
Variety Magazine: „a joy to listen to for music fans“ (review of the „K. 364 a journey by train“)
The 2009 BBC Music Magazine Awards nominee, Avri Levitan, is one of today's most outstanding soloists with wide international recognition.
He performs regularly in some of the world’s most prestigious concert halls, such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Konzerthaus, Tokyo Oji Hall, Casals Hall Tokyo, National Philharmonic Hall Warsaw, Seoul Kumho Art Hall and Art Center and Stockholm Nybrokajen Hall.
Some of his concerts and musical activities for the seasons 2009/2010/2011 include concerts at the Vienna Konzerthaus, Maribor Festival, Auditorio Nacional Madrid, Art Center Seoul, Warsaw National Philharmonic, he perfromed with orchestras such as ORCAM Madrid under Maestro Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Amadeus Chamber Orchestra, Orquestra de Murcia playing Mozart Sinfonia Concertante with Ilya Gringolts, Kiev National Philharmonic, Suwon Philharmonic, Nordic Symphony Orchestra, Lodz Philharmonic, and many other chamber and symphony orchestras worldwide.
An documentary “K.364 a journey by train” featuring Avri Levitan’s concert with the Amadeus Chamber Orchestra at the National Philharmonic in Warsaw, created by the famous artist Douglas Gordon, recently had screenings at the International Film Festivals in Venice, in Toronto and Estoril.
Avri Levitan is the artistic director of the Calahorra International Chamber Music Festival in Spain.
Alongside his performing career, Avri Levitan has also established himself as a gifted viola teacher. In October 2010 he begun his engagement as a viola and chamber music professor at the Zaragoza Music Conservatory in Spain.
He is often invited to give master classes by the world's most famous music academies, among them Vienna Music Conservatory (together with Maestro Penderecki), Gedai University Tokyo, Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Krakow Music Academy, Tel Aviv Music Academy, Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius Music Academies as well as Buenos Aires Conservatory of Music.
Avri Levitan is a frequent guest at numerous festivals such as Ravinia Music Festival (Chicago, USA), Schleswig-Holstein, Rolands Eck (Germany), Hida-Takayama Music Festival (Japan), Båstad and Gotland Chamber Music Festivals (Sweden), Beethoven Festival (Poland), Seoul International Music Festival (Korea), Maribor Festival (Slovenia).
Born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, Avri Levitan studied viola under Professor Haim Taub. He graduated from the Rubin Tel Aviv Academy and achieved his Master degree at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris, in the prestigious "Cycle de Perfectionnement" program. He won first prize at the Rubin Academy competition and first prize at the chamber music competition (viola and piano) at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Paris. During his studies, Avri Levitan was mentored by Pinchas Zukerman, Michael Tree (Guarneri Quartet) and Ivry Gitlis. Avri Levitan has regularly won scholarships from the America-Israel Cultural Foundation. Today lives in Berlin.
He has performed with some of the world's most renowned musicians, among them Claude Frank, Pnina Salzman, Roland Pontinen, Staffan Scheja, Bengt Forsberg, Wolfram Rieger, Peter Jablonski, Pavel Glilov, Gerard Poulet, Zachar Bron, Guy Braunstein, Ulf Wallin, Arve Tellefsen, Jan Stanienda, Bernard Greenhouse, Gary Hoffman, Alexander Rudin, Torleif Thedeen, Karl-Heinz Steffens, Jerzy Maksymiuk, Nikolai Dyadura, Noam Sharif and Agnieszka Duczmal.
Avri Levitan has given concerts for numerous radio and television stations such as the ZDF and NDR in Germany, and national TV and radio in Israel, Sweden, Poland, and Costa Rica. His live concert for Fuji Radio in Tokyo in 2004 received an excellent review in "Strings" magazine.