Elliot Z. Levine's most recent commission was For the Generations for the North Shore Temple of Sydney Australia. Another recent commission was a setting of Music by Emerson for the ICU Chorus of Tokyo. His settings of poetry of Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz in Un Prodigio Les Canto was commissioned and performed by Cerddorrion and has also been performed by the Yale Camerata and at Ithaca College. His Cantata of the Animals, commissioned by The Harmonium Choral Society, has also been performed by Westminster Choir College Choir, the Yale Camerata and the Studio Arsis Chorus of Tokyo and many church groups. He has been composer-in-residence at New York City’s Church of St. Thomas More and the schools of Delmar, New York. Since its inception in 1969, Mr. Levine has been baritone for the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. He has also appeared as a featured soloist with such groups as Musica Sacra, the Rome Opera, La Fenice, the Mannes Camerata, the Ensemble for Early Music, the Folger Consort and the Kalamazoo Bach Festival. Mr. Levine is also the cantorial-soloist at Temple Emanuel in Great Neck, N.Y. He received his Master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music and his B.A. from Queens College, pursuing further studies in music education at the Orff School in Salzburg. For 25 years, he has been a conductor and coach at Western Wind Workshops at such institutions as Dartmouth and Smith Colleges and the University of Massachusetts, as well as at American Choral Directors Association conferences around the country. Mr. Levine is published by Shadow Press, Transcontinental Music, Flammer, Colla Voce, E. Henry David and Willis Music.
