2025-26 Levine Presents

 Join us for a year of concerts featuring our incredible faculty!
Select concerts will be streamed online.

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door, and FREE for all Levine students.

Please consider making a donation of any size to help underwrite the costs of events at Levine Music. We thank you in advance for your support.

Five Decades of Piano

Saturday, October 25, 7 PM | DC Campus: NW + Online

Celebrate the legacy of piano teaching and performance at Levine with piano faculty duos representing each decade of the school’s history. Featuring works by Leonard Bernstein, William Bolcom, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Maurice Ravel.

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Featuring piano duos:
Barbara Wing & Elizabeth Lane
Darya Gabay & Hyeweon Lee Gessner
Sayaka Jordan & Wen-Yin Chan
Amanda Halstead & Melinda Baird
Ching-Yi Lin & Grace Liu

Sound & Fury: Music at the Edge of Silence

Saturday, December 6, 7 PM | VA Campus: West Falls

A powerful program of 20th-century works shaped by war, exile, and resilience, featuring music by Claude Debussy, Sergei Prokofiev, Poldowski, and César Franck.

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Featuring: Holly Nelson, violin, and Luke Ratcliffe, piano

Resonant Paths

Saturday, January 24, 7 PM | DC Campus: NW + Online

A cross-cultural celebration of identity, heritage, and mentorship through works by Igor Stravinsky, Tōru Takemitsu, Maurice Ravel, Reena Esmail, Saad Haddad, and more.

Jamila Tekalli Hanner seated at piano with Suliman Tekalli holding a violin.

Featuring: Suliman Tekalli, violin, and Jamila Tekalli Hanner, piano.

250 Years of America

Saturday, May 2, 7 PM | MD Campus: Strathmore

A showcase of American creativity featuring works by James Lee III, Samuel Barber, Igor Stravinsky, and George Gershwin, reflecting the nation’s cultural diversity, lyricism, and bold artistic voice across 250 years.

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Featuring: Christina Gullans, cello, and Topher Ruggiero, piano.

The #1 Summer Camp

The #1 Summer Camp

Camp Levine has been recognized in the Washington City Paper’s annual “Best of D.C.” issue as one of the “Best Summer Camps in D.C.” for the last six years, winning the title of #1 Summer Camp in 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024!

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