{{Short description|American concert pianist}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2023}}
'''Bruce Levingston''' is an American concert pianist known for his interpretations of contemporary music.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |date=April 27, 2005 |title=A Pianist Turns the Tables on a Portrait Painter |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/27/arts/music/a-pianist-turns-the-tables-on-a-portrait-painter.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-11-17}}</ref><ref name="olemiss.edu">{{cite web|url=https://www.honors.olemiss.edu/team/bruce-levingston/|title=Bruce Levingston – Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College|author=|date=|website=olemiss.edu|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref>
Levingston was born and grew up in the Mississippi Delta.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.clarionledger.com/story/life/2015/10/03/bruce-levingston-interview-hull-book/73106426/|title=Bruce Levingston interview on Hull book|author=|date=|website=The Clarion Ledger|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref> He was educated at Darlington School in Rome, Georgia, graduating in 1979.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.darlingtonschool.org/4533472|title=Darlington School: April 9 declared Bruce Levingston ('79) Day in Mississippi, observed with Carnegie Hall performance|author=|date=|website=Darlington School|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref>
Levingston has performed many times at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://crosseyedpianist.com/2018/04/19/meet-the-artist-bruce-levingston-piano/|title=Meet the Artist – Bruce Levingston, piano|first=The Cross-Eyed|last=Pianist|date=19 April 2018|website=The Cross-Eyed Pianist|access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref><ref name="olemiss.edu"/> He has been hailed for his adventurousness by ''The New York Times''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lucas |first=Sherry |date=January 29, 2012 |title=World-class musicians accompany pianist on visit home |work=Clarion-Ledger |location=Jackson, Mississippi |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-world-class-musicians-acc/135331531/ |access-date=2023-11-17 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Steve |date=May 13, 2011 |title=A Little Offbeat Humor in Cyclical Explorations |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/14/arts/music/bruce-levingston-and-colin-jacobsen-review.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-11-17}}</ref> In a 2011 review, critic Steve Smith wrote that "Mr. Levingston, in particular, values illuminating connections among the pieces he programs."<ref name=":0" />
In 2001, he started the Premiere Commission, a foundation underwriting new and contemporary works.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |date=February 19, 2012 |title=Works New or Newly Configured |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/20/arts/music/bruce-levingston-with-brooklyn-rider-at-le-poisson-rouge.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=2023-11-17}}</ref> Levingston is the Chancellor's Honors College Artist in Residence and holds the Lester Glenn Fant Chair at the University of Mississippi.<ref name="olemiss.edu"/>
He lives in New York City and Oxford, Mississippi.<ref name="auto"/>
==Recordings== *Still Sound<ref name="auto"/> *Heart Shadow<ref name="auto"/> *Heavy Sleep<ref name="auto"/>
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==External links== *{{Official website|www.brucelevingston.com/}}
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