Pianist
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Pianist and composer, Yoni Levyatov, is a gifted musician with a touch of the flamboyant. Mr. Levyatov made his New York concerto debut in 2005 as the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Competition performing the Schumann Piano Concerto under the baton of Philippe Entremont. He also performed the Schumann Piano Concerto in his Israeli debut with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra under conductor Marek Piarowski and was subsequently featured in a rare performance of the Rachmaninoff Concerto no.4 with the same orchestra under the baton of Leos Svarosvky. Recently Mr. Levyatov has been heard in the Bach Concerto in D minor with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra at the Yamaha Piano Salon, NY in the opening concert of its EPC series.
In April 2006 Mr. Levyatov made his Lincoln Center debut at Alice Tully Hall. In reviewing this recital Allan Kozinn of The New York Times said “the performance as a whole had an appealing electricity.” Recent appearances have included performances at Steinway Hall, Barge Music and United Nations in New York City; Menora Hall in Manchester, England; Philharmonic Hall in St. Petersburg, Russia; Spiegelsaal in Rheinsberg, Germany; Auditorium de Cajacanarias in Teneriffe, Spain; Jerusalem Music Center; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Arts.
Mr. Levyatov has been a recipient of the America-Israel Cultural Foundation scholarship since 1990. He received the Dorothy McKenzie Artist Recognition Award in both 2001 and 2004. He was awarded the Clairmont Prize in Tel Aviv in 2003 and received the Harold Bauer Award in 2005 and 2006. Most recently, Yoni has won second prize at the 2008 International Boesendorfer Piano Competition.
Yoni Levyatov has taken part in master classes with Earl Wild, Peter
Frankl, Emmanuel Ax, Ruth Laredo, György Sandor, David Dubal,
Charles Rosen, and Alicia de Larrocha. Past teachers have included
Jerome Rose, Constance Keene, Dr. Solomon Mikowsky, Alexander Volkov
and Lili Dorfman. He’s continuing his studies with Harvey Wedeen.
Hailing from a musical family, his mother a pianist and his father a choral director, Mr. Levyatov was born in St. Petersburg and moved to Israel at age ten. He went on to pursue piano studies at the Manhattan School of Music where he graduated in 2005.