Nadav Lev

Guitarist and composer Nadav Lev is an exceptional virtuoso on both classical and electric guitar. His proficiency in through-composed as well as improvised music and his profound performances of the music of our time have made him one of today’s most captivating new performers. An Andres Segovia Award winner, Lev “is one of the greatest and most visionary guitarists working today.” (Sean Hickey) Hailed as “a master, (from) classical to jazz to rock to improvised music,” (Grego Applegate Edwards). Classical Guitar Magazine wrote “Lev is clearly a talented and engagingly musical performer when playing both solo and as a chamber musician. …his stage presence is entirely gracious and personable.” In the 2016-17 season Lev performed with the New York City Opera Orchestra in the New York Premiere of Eötvös’ ‘Angels in America.’ “Plucks of electric guitar work that instrument for all its echoey melancholy,” (Zachary Woolfe, NY Times). Other highlights include solo performances with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra and the Meitar Chamber Ensemble in Israel. Mr. Lev has been performing throughout the US, Europe, Israel and South America, in venues such as Carnegie Hall, Rose Hall at Lincoln Center and Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Oscar Peterson Hall in Montreal and in festivals such as Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, Musique en Graves and was the Artist in Residence at the Festival de Chaillol in France in 2015, and performed at the Marlow Guitar Series in Washington D.C. Additionally, Mr. Lev has collaborated with the Israel Symphony Orchestra, Israel Kibbutz Orchestra, ECLAT Festival, Wet Ink Ensemble, Barbara Hannigan, Remy Yulzari, ICE, Miranda Cuckson, Zisl Slepovitch, Rinat Shaham and Mivos Quartet. Lev’s latest album release, NEW STRINGS ATTACHED with the Delos label, features 6 new works dedicated to him by contemporary Israeli composers including a piece written by Lev, himself. Mr. Lev is the only guitarist in recent years to have won AICF’s prestigious Abroad Studies Award and he also won the Ra’anana Guitar Competition’s first prize, the Jerusalem Guitar Competition’s Rodrigo Prize, Artists International and the Lillian Fuchs Awards. His main teachers were Ruben Seroussi, David Starobin, Steve Paskoff and Aharoni Benari.