Leon Gurvitch is composer, pianist and conductor. He is the author of more than 300 compositions & arrangements. He was born in Minsk, studied at the Belarussian Music Academy and Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Hamburg.
In 2000 he founded the Leon Gurvitch Project, conceived as a musical genre-crossing ensemble with outstanding musicians, influenced from many corners of the world.
Since 2004 - assistant professor at the J. Brahms Conservatory in Hamburg.
In 2010 the first album „Eldorado was released, 2014 produced a solo piano CD „Remember Me. 2017 - solo piano CD „Poetic Whispers.
2015 - Leon Gurvitch, dedicates his orchestra work 5 Dances in Old Style to the project Classic for Peace, performed in Bundestag.
Works by Leon Gurvitch were given at Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, at Brussels's Palais des Beaux-Arts, Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Oboe Festival Paris.
Collaborations with the Hamburg State Opera, The North German Radio Symphony Orchestra (NDR), Berliner Camerata, Kammerphilharmonie Frankfurt and legendary German theatre director Peter Zadek. In 2013 he composed a „Musical Phantasy on Poems by Daniil Charms performed in the Hamburg State Opera.
Leon Gurvitch composed music for Oscar-nominated film director Menahem Golan. 2011 conducted the premiere of Philip Glass's opera Les Enfants Terribles.
Nomination for Hamburg Music Award 2015 in the Category: Musician of the Year.
2016 - Composer & Pianist in Residence by Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York.
2017 - Debut at Carnegie Hall, New York.
Works by Leon Gurvitch are published by Boosey & Hawkes.
Works of Leon Gurvitch that are being published by Editions Musica Ferrum:
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250 piano pieces for Beethoven vol. 5
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- The fifth volume of the "250 piano pieces for Beethoven" project, initiated and organised by Susanne Kessel, in Bonn.
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