Her playing described as “elegant” in the New York Times, pianist Arielle Levioff has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Weill Hall, Merkin Hall, and Alice Tully Hall. As a collaborative artist she has performed throughout the Eastern United States, as well as in London, France, and Italy. Her concerto engagements include the Rapides Symphony (LA), the Lower Merion Symphony (PA), the Astoria Symphony, the Christ Church Festival Orchestra in Oyster Bay (NY), and the Seniors Orchestral Society of New York. From 2005 to 2009 she was the artistic director of Goliard Concerts (Queens, NY), an organization dedicated to community outreach and the commissioning of new chamber works by young composers. Ms. Levioff was a finalist in the 2009 Sorel Medallion Competition in Collaborative Piano and was subsequently invited to join the coaching faculty of the Daniel Ferro Vocal Festival in Tuscany the following summer.
A dedicated educator, Ms. Levioff has taught undergraduate master classes at Stony Brook University and various colleges throughout the Southeastern United States. She has been a teaching artist at the 92nd Street Y School of Music in Manhattan since 2004, and also teaches piano and gives lectures and performances in the Art of Listening to Music series for the 92nd Street Y’s Himan Brown 60-Plus senior program. Ms. Levioff is the music director of the annual Point Counterpoint chamber music workshop for adults on Vermont’s Lake Dunmore, and also co-directs Point Counterpoint’s new “Pianos on the Point” workshop with her husband, Michael C. Haigler. She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied with Phillip Kawin, and recently completed a Doctorate of Musical Arts at SUNY Stony Brook University under the tutelage of Gilbert Kalish. Find out more about her at www.ariellelevioff.com.