Jesse Levine, Viola
“Levine did a superb job sustaining the viola’s continuity and musical thought.”
                                                                                                           -Buffalo Evening News

violist and conductor, has been Music Director of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra, the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias in Spain, the Music Director of the Chappaqua Orchestra and the Feld Ballet. In addition to his conducting activities Mr. Levine has been Principal Violist of the Buffalo, Dallas, Baltimore and New Jersey Symphony Orchestras and has appeared in recital with chamber music groups and as soloist with orchestras in Europe, South America, Israel, Australia, and throughout the United States and Mexico. As an active guest conductor, Mr. Levine has conducted the Puerto Rico Symphony, Rochester Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, Orchestra of Kennedy Center, National Orchestral Association at Carnegie Hall, Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, New York Chamber Symphony at Lincoln Center and many orchestras abroad. Mr. Levine is also known for his work in contemporary music. He has recently recorded Morton Feldman’s “The Viola in my Life” with the Buffalo Festival Orchestra. He is Professor of Viola and Chair of the String Department at the Yale School of Music and Conductor-in-Residence of the Purchase Symphony Orchestra at the Conservatory of Music at the State University of New York at Purchase.