Robert Levin has been awarded the Golden Mozart Medal by the International Mozarteum Foundation.

Levin is a pianist, teacher, composer, and performer. He is also an active music scholar and member of the Academy for Mozart Research at the International Mozarteum Foundation. From 1993 to 2013 Levin was Dwight P. Robinson Junior Professor of Music at Harvard University. He has also been visiting professor at the Juilliard School of Music and is an emeritus professor at Harvard University. He served as the artistic director of the Sarasota Music Festival form 2006-2017. His complete editions of Mozart’s unfinished works have been published by every major publishing house as well as being recorded and performed worldwide.

The Mozarteum Foundation’s president, Johannes Honsig-Erlenburg said in a press release, “Robert Levin has been closely associated with the Mozarteum Foundation for fifty years and we value him as a true friend and benefactor. He is also an exceptional artist who is second to none as a living force in the world of Mozart performances and of Mozart research. He also has a gift for communicating the fascination of Mozart in all its facets to audiences all over the globe. We offer him our heartiest congratulations.”

Since 1914 the Golden Mozart Medal has been awarded to distinguished individuals and institutions that have made an important contribution to our understanding of the life and works of the compser and to the work of the International Mozarteum Foundation. Past recipients have included Lilli Lehmann, Karl Böhm, the Vienna Philharmonic, Sir András Schiff, Alfred Brendel, Miloš Forman, Mitsuko Uchida, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra. The two most recent recipients were Marc Minkowski, the former artistic director of the Mozart Week Festival, in 2017, and the Cappella Andrea Barca in 2019.