Clarinet
Principal Clarinet of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra, and participant in the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, four-time Grammy Award-winner Todd Levy has performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, Mostly Mozart, with the Israel Philharmonic, and at the White House. An active chamber musician, Mr. Levy has appeared with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard, Orion, Ying, Miro and Miami string quartets; James Levine, Christoph Eschenbach, and Mitsuko Uchida. He has also been a participant at the Marlboro Music Festival for four summers, and was a member of the Naumburg Award-winning Aspen Wind Quintet.
Also in demand as a Guest Principal Clarinetist with the top American orchestras, Mr. Levy has played Principal Clarinet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and frequently for Seiji Ozawa and Riccardo Muti in Japan at the Tokyo Opera Nomori and the Mito Chamber Orchestra An avid supporter of new music, he has performed world premiere concerti or chamber works by composers such as John Harbison, Joan Tower, Peter Schickele, Paquito D’Rivera, Morton Subotnick, Magnus Lindberg, and Marc Neikrug. He performs on the new release of Marc Neikrug’s Through Roses chamber work with violinist Pinchas Zuckerman, actor John Rubenstein, and the composer conducting.
Mr. Levy’s new CD for Avie, Rhapsodie, features 20th Century classics for clarinet He has also recorded the Brahms Clarinet Sonatas and Schumann pieces for Avie, and three educational book/CDs of clarinet competition works entitled the Clarinet Collection for G. Schirmer/Hal Leonard. In 2021, he compiled a book for publisher Alphonse Leduc/Hal Leonard of French Conservatoire pieces called French Music for Clarinet. In addition, Mr. Levy has recorded and edited the new exclusive editions/CDs of the Bernstein Clarinet Sonata and the Finzi Five Bagatelles for Boosey and Hawkes/Hal Leonard, and over 20 other orchestral and chamber music CDs on the Deutsche Grammophon, Sony, and Decca labels. He performs on Vandoren reeds, mouthpieces, and ligatures, and Selmer Signature clarinets. Mr Levy serves on the clarinet faculty at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, and at UW-Milwaukee. Todd is a graduate of the Juilliard School and an alum of the New World Symphony.
