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Avri Levitan is an Israeli violist based in Berlin.1He is the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Awards Nominee, and recently toured with the Nordic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anu Tali , performing Max Bruch 's Kol Nidrei at the Vienna Konzerthaus Großer Saal. His future engagements include playing William Walton 's viola concerto with the Suwon Philharmonic at the Seoul International Music Festival in Korea; in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid with Orquesta y Coro de Comunidad de Madrid under Jean-Jacques Kantorow , with Orquesta de Murcia, Filharmonia Pomorska and more. He is a dedicated viola and chamber music professor with a renowned students class in Spain. "One of the worlds most important violists" wrote the critic after his performance of the William Walton viola concerto with the Lodz Philharmonic in February 2010. He was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, graduated from Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv where he studied with Prof. In 2009 conceived the Musethica concept which was officially launched in 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain. Musethica is now also active in Berlin, Germany and is spreading around the world.2
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Avri Levitan' is a British violist. He is the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Awards Nominee, and recently toured with the Nordic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anu Tali , performing Max Bruch's "Kol Nidrei" at the Vienna Konzerthaus Großer Saal. His future engagements include playing William Walton viola concerto with the Suwon Philharmonic at the Seoul International Music Festival in Korea; in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid with Orquesta y Coro de Comunidad de Madrid under Harry Christophers, with Orquesta de Murcia, Filharmonia Pomorska. He is a dedicated viola and chamber music professor with a renowned students class in Spain. „One of the worlds most important violists“ - wrote the critic after his performance of the William Walton viola concerto with the Lodz Philharmonic in February 2010. He was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, graduated from Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv where he studied with Prof.
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( Learn how and when to remove this message ) Avri Levitan is an Israeli violist based in Berlin. He is the 2009 BBC Music Magazine Awards Nominee, and recently toured with the Nordic Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Anu Tali , performing Max Bruch 's Kol Nidrei at the Vienna Konzerthaus Großer Saal. His future engagements include playing William Walton 's viola concerto with the Suwon Philharmonic at the Seoul International Music Festival in Korea; in the Auditorio Nacional in Madrid with Orquesta y Coro de Comunidad de Madrid under Jean-Jacques Kantorow , with Orquesta de Murcia, Filharmonia Pomorska and more. He is a dedicated viola and chamber music professor with a renowned students class in Spain. "One of the worlds most important violists" wrote the critic after his performance of the William Walton viola concerto with the Lodz Philharmonic in February 2010. He was born in 1973 in Tel Aviv, graduated from Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv where he studied with Prof. In 2009 conceived the Musethica concept which was officially launched in 2012 in Zaragoza, Spain.Musethica is now also active in Berlin, Germany and is spreading around the world.
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Israeli violist (born 1973) Musical artist Avri Levitan (born 1973) is an Israeli violist based in Berlin.He conceived the nonprofit Musethica with Carmen Marcuello in 2009 and launched it in 2012 in Zaragoza , Spain.Levitan has received nominations at the BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2009 and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in 2012.
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Israeli violist (born 1973) Musical artist Avri Levitan ( Hebrew : עברי לביטן ; born 1973) is an Israeli violist based in Berlin. He conceived the nonprofit Musethica with Carmen Marcuello in 2009 and launched it in 2012 in Zaragoza , Spain. Levitan has received nominations at the BBC Music Magazine Awards in 2009 and the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Awards in 2012.
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british violist
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israeli violist based in berlin
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