Sharan Leventhal

Sharan Leventhal, violin, has toured four continents as a soloist, chamber musician, and teacher. Since winning the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis at the 1984 International Contemporary Music Festival in Darmstadt, Germany, she has built an international reputation as a champion of contemporary music. Her more than 130 premieres include works written by Gunther Schuller, Ben Johnston, Pauline Oliveros, Taina León, and Simon Bainbridge.

Equally active in traditional venues, Leventhal has appeared as a soloist with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, and the Toledo, Milwaukee, Topeka, Dayton, and Albany symphonies, among others. She is a founding member of the Gramercy Trio, the Kepler Quartet, and Marimolin.

Leventhal has received more than 30 grants, including awards from Chamber Music America, the Fromm Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music Recording, American Academy of Arts & Letters, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Recordings include the string quartets of Ben Johnston with the Kepler Quartet, the violin and piano works of Virgil Thomson, Gramercy Trio, and discs by Marimolin.