MICHAEL LEWIN LLC
FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA

Michael Lewin is internationally applauded as one of America’s most gifted concert pianists, performing to acclaim in over 30 countries. His many recordings, enormous repertoire and charismatic stage presence have established him as an artist whose warmth, imagination and dazzling virtuosity make him an audience favorite. Mr. Lewin won a Grammy Award in 2014 as the featured artist on the Billboard No. 1 New Age Album “Winds of Samsara.” His recent Debussy recordings for Sono Luminus, “Starry Night” and “Beau Soir”, have won world-wide acclaim and extraordinary critical praise. The discs include both Books of Préludes, Estampes and a variety of other solo works. Also on Sono Luminus is "Piano Phantoms," music inspired by phantoms and the spirit world, and “If I Were a Bird,” a popular collection of bird-themed pieces, which received a Grammy nomination in the "Producer of the Year" category. For Naxos he made a best-selling collection of 20 Scarlatti Sonatas and a landmark two-CD set of the complete piano music of American composer Charles Tomlinson Griffes. His Centaur recordings include “Michael Lewin plays Liszt," “A Russian Piano Recital,” (Scriabin, Glazunov and Balakirev), “Bamboula!" piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and the Violin Sonatas of William Bolcom with violinist Irina Muresanu. Michael Lewin is one of America’s best-known and most recorded concert pianists, concertizing in 30 countries. His career was launched with top prizes in the Liszt International Competition, the American Pianists Association Award and the Kapell International Piano Competition. In 2014 he won a Grammy Award for his featured performance on “Winds of Samsara.” He has appeared as soloist with the Netherlands Philharmonic, Cairo Symphony, China National Radio Orchestra, Bucharest Philharmonic, Youth Orchestra of the Americas, State Symphony of Greece, Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops, and the Phoenix, Indianapolis, Miami, North Carolina, West Virginia, Nevada, New Orleans, Colorado, Guadalajara, and Puerto Rico Symphonies. Mr. Lewin has performed in New York’s Lincoln Center, Boston’s Symphony Hall, Taiwan’s National Concert Hall, Hong Kong’s City Hall Theatre, Holland’s Muziekcentrum, Moscow’s Great Hall, the Athens Megaron, London’s Wigmore Hall, the National Gallery of Art, Spoleto Festival and on PBS Television. His extensive repertoire includes over 40 piano concertos, with particular interest in the music of Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy and American composers. His acclaimed recordings include the complete piano music of Charles T. Griffes, Scarlatti Sonatas, “Michael Lewin plays Liszt,” a Russian Recital, "Bamboula!" piano music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk, the Bolcom Violin Sonatas with Irina Muresanu, “Piano Phantoms” and “If I Were a Bird.” He most recently released a pair of Debussy recordings on Sono Luminus, “Beau Soir” and “Starry Night”, which include the complete Préludes and other works. Lewin is a Juilliard School graduate and a Steinway Artist. One of America’s most sought-after teachers, he is Professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, directs the Boston Conservatory Piano Masters Series and has mentored many prize-winning pianists. Michael Lewin es distinguido internacionalmente como uno de los pianistas más carismáticos y mejor dotados de los Estados Unidos, elogiado por sus interpretaciones en más de 30 países, en recital, como solista con orquesta, y como músico de cámara. Michael Lewin se dio a conocer gracias a sendas victorias en el Concurso Internacional Franz Liszt en los Países Bajos, el Concurso Internacional William Kapell y la American Pianists Association Fellowship. También ha recibido prestigiosos subsidios para su carrera pianística de la Fundación Martha Baird Rockefeller, del National Endowment for the Arts Solo Recitalists Fund, y del Aaron Copland Recording Fund. La extensa discografía de Michael Lewin, elogiada categóricamente por la crítica, refleja la gran amplitud de sus intereses musicales. En la actualidad, graba exclusivamente para Sono Luminus. Su tercer CD con Sono Luminus (2014) es un álbum dedicado únicamente a Debussy, titulado “Beau Soir”, que incluye los Preludios del Libro II y otras ocho obras. Lo seguirá otro disco de la música de Debussy, en Enero de 2015, con los Preludios del Libro I y Estampes. Su primer disco con Sono Luminus, “If I Were a Bird”, una colección de obras de contenido programático referente a los pájaros, fue nominado a los premios Grammy en la categoría “Mejor Productor del Año”. Luego grabó “Piano Phantoms” (2013), música inspirada en fantasmas, espectros, y el mundo de los espíritus. Su disco Bamboula!, música para piano de Louis Moreau Gottschalk, fue elegido como un “Top 10 Pick” del Año por el Boston Herald, mientras que el Boston Globe subrayó que “Lewin posee la destreza y el encanto para estas obras.” Para Naxos grabó una exitosa colección de 20 Sonatas de Scarlatti y la totalidad de la obra para piano del compositor estadounidense Charles Tomlinson Griffes, en versión inédita de dos volúmenes. Con Centaur Records grabó Michael Lewin plays Liszt y A Russian Piano Recital, este último con obras de Scriabin, Glazunov y Balakirev; así también grabó las cuatro Sonatas para Violín y Piano de William Bolcom con la violinista Irina Muresanu. Michael Lewin wordt internationaal bejubeld als een van Amerika’s meest getalenteerde en charismatische concertpianisten, die in meer dan 30 landen heeft opgetreden met orkesten, in recitals en als kamermusicus. Met een repertoire van 40 piano-concerten, heeft Michael Lewin opgetreden met onder anderen het Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest, het Moscow Chamber Orchestra, het Cairo Symphony, Bucharest ‘Enescu’ Philharmonic, China National Radio and Film Orchestra, Filharmónica de Guadalajara, State Symphony of Greece, Youth Orchestra of the Americas en Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, Hij heeft wereld premières gespeeld van twee pianoconcerten van David Kocsis en Gershwin’s 'Rhapsody in Blue' meer dan 50 keer uitgevoerd. Michael Lewin heeft gewekt met dirigenten als Carlos Miguel Prieto, Keith Lockhart, Constantine Orbellian, Anton Kersjes, Seymour Lipkin, Theo Alcantara, Ian Hobson, Sergei Babayan, Maximiano Valdés en Hugh Wolff.