Education
Levin attended the Brooklyn Friends School, and Andrew Jackson High School, but spent his junior year studying music with Nadia Boulanger in Paris. He attended Harvard, where he earned his A.B. magna cum laude in 1968, writing a thesis titled The Unfinished Works of W. A. Mozart.
Levin took private lessons at institutions such as Chatham Square Music School, Conservatoire National Supérieur, and the Fontainebleau School of Music in:
- Piano, with Jan Gorbaty, Louis Martin, Alice Gaultier-Léon, Jean Casadesus, Clifford Curzon, and Robert Casadesus
- Organ, with Nadia Boulanger
- Solfège, with Seymour Bernstein, Louis Martin, and Annette Dieudonné
- Counterpoint, with Suzanne Bloch and Nadia Boulanger
- Composition, with Stefan Wolpe
- Conducting, with Eleazar de Carvalho
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