Ida Levin has established an international reputation as soloist, recitalist and chamber musician. She began her violin studies at age three in her native Santa Monica, California, and made her professional debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at age ten. The recipient of both the Leventritt Award and an Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Levin was invited by Rudolf Serkin to appear with him in a joint recital for President and Mrs. Reagan, broadcast by PBS as "In Performance at the White House. " She has performed at Carnegie Hall as soloist with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York String Orchestra and with the orchestras of St. Louis, Utah, Toulouse, Kammerphilharmonie Berlin, the Prague Symphony and the Edinburgh Chamber Orchestra, among others. As a recitalist, she has appeared at the 92nd Street Y, the Kennedy Center, London's Wigmore Hall and throughout the US, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Mexico and numerous other countries. Ms. Levin is a senior artist at the Marlboro Festival, takes part annually in Open Chamber Music in Cornwall, England and is a regular guest at festivals from Seattle, Santa Fe and Montreal to Cremona, Italy, West Cork, Ireland, and Mondsee, Austria. She is a member of the Boston Chamber Music Society, the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society Players and a frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Houston Da Camera. She has given master classes worldwide and has been on the faculties of Harvard University, the European Mozart Academy and the Sandor Vegh Academy in Prague.


