BIOGRAPHY
Pianist Frank Lévy has been hailed by audiences and critics alike as an artist of rare poetic insight and communicative powers. A prize-winner in the Leeds and Clara Haskil international piano competitions, Frank Lévy has an international career as a recitalist performing on many of the world’s great stages, including Avery Fisher Hall in New York, Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Royce Hall in Los Angeles, the National Theater in Beijing, Xinghai Hall in Guangzhou, the Lyceum Theater in Shanghai, Teatro Municipal in Santiago, Chile, Garner Hall in Salt Lake City, and the Stadthaussaal in Winterthur. He has performed under the batons of Muhai Tang, Louis Langrée, Mehli Mehta, Paul Dunkel, David Josefowitz, Ya-Hui Wang, and other conductors.
Mr. Lévy recently recorded the complete Brahms Sonatas with violinist Bin Huang for the official recording label of China’s National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), the complete piano works of Schubert and Brahms for the Canadian label, Palexa, and the complete works of Chopin for MusOpen.
In 2025-2026, Frank Lévy will perform Mozart Twelve Piano Concerto and Brahms First Piano Concerto in the Opening Concert at Shenzhen Concert Hall with Shenzhen City Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Liu Yu on October 20, 2025.
Frank Lévy’s most recent performances include Mozart Twelve Piano Concerto under the baton of Muhai Tang in Shanghai in July 2025, Rachmaninov Second Piano concerto under the baton of Fred Cohen at Stanford University in March 2025, Brahms First Piano concerto and Beethoven Choral Fantasy in San Jose in May and June 2025, among others. In addition to his recent solo performances in Mexico, China, Italy, and the United States, Frank Lévy regularly organizes community concerts with local musicians and orchestras. His recent performance of Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto performed with members of local youth orchestras in March 2025 attracted an audience of over 1000 listeners to Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University.
Award-winning educator, Frank Lévy is Professor of Piano at San Jose State University. Frank Lévy has served on the piano faculty of Stanford University (2023-2025), the Juilliard School Pre-College Division (1995-2008) and in the D.M.A. program at the City University of New York Graduate Center (2008-2014).
Frank Lévy has given numerous lectures and master classes at universities, conservatories and music festivals around the world. His recent lectures include “The Art of Practicing: From Concept to Sound,” “From the Fortepiano to the Fazioli”, “Schubert and the Suspension of Time,” “Musical Offerings for a Monument: Masterpieces by Beethoven, Liszt and Schumann,” “Practicing Piano Creatively” and “The School of Piano: Understanding the Interaction between the Piano Mechanism and the Human Body.”
Frank Lévy, who grew up in Switzerland, entered the Geneva Conservatory at the age of fifteen and earned the bachelor’s and master’s degrees studying with renowned pianist and pedagogue Louis Hiltbrand, and the doctorate in performance studying with Maria Tipo. After winning the Kiefer-Hablitzel Prize, Frank Lévy went to study with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory, from where he received the Artist Diploma. Mr. Lévy also studied with Emanual Ax, Samuel Sanders, Margo Garrett and Dorothy Taubman in New York, Vlado Perlemuter in Paris, Maria Curcio, Radu Lupu and Murray Perahia in London.
Since 2011, Frank Lévy makes his home in Sunnyvale, California with his wife, Ilana, and their three children. For more information about Frank’s upcoming concerts, please visit his website www.franklevy.com.