Arthur Levering is an American composer of contemporary classical music
Education
Levering holds a Bachelor of Arts from Colby College (1976). An M.M. in performance from Yale University (1979), having studied classical guitar with Eliot Fisk. And an M.M. in composition from Boston University (1988), having studied primarily with Bernard Rands.
Career
He currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America. Levering has received commissions from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Musica Viva, the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Rascher Saxophone Quartet, and Sequitur, among others His virtuosic 3 movement piano work, School of Velocity, was commissioned and performed by Donald Berman on a League of Composers/ISCM concert at Merkin Hall, New York on March 23, 1999. Echoi (violin and piano) was premiered by Nicholas Kitchen and Donald Berman in Boston on October
20, 2003.
Clarion/Shadowing (clarinet, violin, piano) was performed by the 21st Century Consort at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, District of Columbia on March 13, 2004. Twenty Ways Upon the Bells (7 players) was premiered by Dinosaur Annex in Boston on October 30, 1994. Cloches II (8 players) was performed by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on February
15, 2001.
Furies (11 players) was premiered by Sequitur at Merkin Hall in New York on January 30, 2008. Catena (piano and 16 players) was premiered by Donald Berman and the Dinosaur Annex Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Scott Wheeler at Jordan Hall, Boston on September 16, 2000. Parallel Universe (string orchestra) was performed and recorded by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at Jordan Hall, Boston on May 25, 2007.
Il Mare Dentro (orchestra) was commissioned and premiered by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston on September 21, 2008.