Robert D. Levin - Academic Career

Academic Career

Upon graduation from Harvard, Levin was named head of the theory department at Curtis Institute of Music, then was associate professor of music and coordinator of theory at SUNY Purchase, where he was made full professor in 1975. From 1986 to 1993, he served as professor of piano at Hochschule für Musik Freiburg in Germany. In 1993, he became professor of music at his alma mater Harvard University, a position he continues to hold. In 1994 he was made Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. Professor of the Humanities at Harvard, and he was head tutor from 1998 to 2003 and in 2004. In 2012, he was Humanitas Visiting Professor in Chamber Music at Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, University of Cambridge where he gave two lectures on Improvising and Composing Mozart and a concert with Academy of Ancient Music.

Levin's academic career has combined teaching and tutoring performance--especially keyboard instruments, but also conducting--and music theory, with an emphasis on classical music history.