Jesse Levine, Music Director

Jesse Levine is Professor of Viola and Chamber Music and Chair of the String Department at the Yale School of Music.

Mr. Levine has held the positions of Music Director and Conductor of the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra (1981-2001), Orquesta del Principado de Asturias in Spain, Chappaqua Orchestra, and Feld Ballet. A noted violist as well as conductor, Mr. Levine has been Principal Violist of the Buffalo, Dallas, Baltimore, and New Jersey symphony orchestras and has appeared as conductor or as viola soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician in Europe, South America, Israel, Australia, Mexico, and throughout the United States.

Mr. Levine has been a member of the faculties of the State University of New York at Buffalo and Stony Brook, and at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore. Frequently invited to present master classes in viola, Mr. Levine has offered these classes at festivals in Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona, Morella, Segorbe, and Vitoria (Spain), Festival Flaine Musique (France), and the Paris Conservatory of Music.