A recipient of the Andrew Wolf Award, an Avery Fisher Career Grant, and first prize in the 1997 Dublin International Piano Competition, Max Levinson teaches piano and chamber music at New England Conservatory and Boston Conservatory.

As a pianist, Levinson is known as an intelligent and sensitive artist with a fearless technique. His international career was launched when he won first prize at the Dublin International Piano Competition (1997), becoming the first American to achieve this distinction. He has performed as a soloist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, San Francisco Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Oregon Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony, Colorado Symphony, New World Symphony, Utah Symphony, Boston Pops, San Antonio Symphony, Louisville Symphony, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, as well as in recital at New York’s Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., London’s Wigmore Hall, Zürich’s Tonhalle, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, Jordan Hall in Boston, and throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe.

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.

Levinson is artistic director for the San Juan Festival (Colorado) and has instructed masterclasses at Harvard, the Royal Irish Academy, MIT, the University of Washington, Rutgers, and Brigham Young University.

An active chamber musician, Levinson has performed with the Tokyo, Vermeer, Mendelssohn, Borromeo, Parker, and Muir quartets, and he appears at major music festivals, including Santa Fe, Marlboro, Mostly Mozart, Bravo/Vail, La Jolla, Seattle, and Cartagena. His recordings have earned wide acclaim, including his most recent recording with violinist Stefan Jackiw of the Brahms's Three Sonatas (Sony). Levinson is frequently invited to serve on competition juries, including the Dublin International Piano Competition jury (2015), and he has given master classes throughout the United States and in Europe and Japan.

Levinson is a graduate of Harvard and New England Conservatory, where he received the Artist Diploma and the Gunther Schuller Medal. His teachers include Patricia Zander, Aube Tzerko, and Bruce Sutherland. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts, with his wife, cellist Allison Eldredge.

NEC: https://necmusic.edu/faculty/max-levinson

Boston Conservatory: https://bostonconservatory.berklee.edu/directory/max-levinson