Composer Arthur Levering has received many awards for his work, including the Rome Prize, the Heckscher Foundation Composition Prize, the Lee Ettelson Composer's Award, commissions from the Fromm Foundation and the Barlow Endowment, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo. He has been commissioned by various ensembles, including the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Boston Musica Viva, the New Juilliard Ensemble, the Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble, Sequitur, Musica d'Oggi (Italy), and the Rascher Saxophone Quartet (Germany). His music has also been performed by such prominent groups as the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the League of Composers/ISCM, Voices of Change, NewEar, and Lontano, among others, and it has been featured at concerts and festivals in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Switzerland. Compact disks of his work include School of Velocity (CRI) ("the best debut album by an American composer I've heard this year"—Robert Carl, Fanfare, July/August, 1999), Still Raining, Still Dreaming (New World), and Parallel Universe (New World). A work for viola and piano, Tesserae, is included in Americans in Rome, Music by Fellows of the American Academy in Rome, on the Bridge label.
During his MacDowell residencies, Levering worked on School of Velocity (piano), Time’s Arrow (orchestra), and Still Raining, Still Dreaming (six players).
Portrait by Janice Crotty
