He debuted as a soloist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra at 10, studied at the Marlboro Music Festival with pianist Rudolf Serkin and as a teenager enrolled in the Juilliard School's graduate division, studying conducting with Jean Morel and piano with Rosina Lhévinne. James Levine was born in Cincinnati on June 23, 1943, and began piano lessons at age 4. Levine led that orchestra at its summer home at the Ravinia Festival, where he was music director from 1973 to 1993. In 2006, the Boston Globe reported that with combined salaries from both the Met and the BSO totaling $3.5 million, Levine was the highest paid conductor in the U.S.Ī prolific recording artist, Levine won 10 Grammys, beginning in 1982 with a best orchestral performance award for his account of Mahler's Seventh Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He routinely gave recitals - sometimes with other pianists, such as Evgeny Kissin, and especially as an accompanist to celebrated opera singers, including Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
He was a frequent guest conductor of the world's finest orchestras, with special relationships in Berlin and Vienna. In addition to his years with the Met, Levine served as the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) from 2004 to 2011, and was the chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic for five seasons. The company formally fired Levine in March 2018. In all, nine men publicly accused Levine of having abused them. That same evening, the Met issued a statement saying it was suspending the conductor pending an investigation into "multiple allegations of sexual misconduct." Additional accusers came forward over the next several months, alleging harassing or abusive behavior dating back to the conductor's early career, when the accusers were Levine's teenaged students or mentees. Music News Met Opera, James Levine Avoid Public Dispute In #MeToo Accusations, Settle Lawsuit
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