Dmitri Levkovich was born 1980 in Cherkassy into an ukrainian musical family where both of his parents were concert pianists, in addition to his father being a well-known composer. He received his first piano lessons at the age of three and continued his education at the Lysenko music school for gifted children in Kiev, Ukraine. Following the emigration of his family to Israel and then Canada he resumed his professional education at the Curtis Institute of Music in 1996 earning his B.M., M.M. and A.D. degrees at the Cleveland Institute of Music, where for eleven years he studied with renowned pianist Sergei Babayan. Having finished his studies, he makes his home in New York City.
In 2010 Dmitri Levkovich won First Prize at the China International Piano Competition in Xiamen -China's most prominent piano competition. Since entering competition stage in 2005, he has received top prizes in Jose Iturbi, Vendôme Prize, Bosendorfer, Gina Bachauer International Artists Competition, New Orleans, Hilton Head, Viardo and World International Piano Competitions. His consistency and stamina was evident when in the space of six weeks he won four International Piano Competitions, giving fifteen performances, three of them with orchestras. While collecting one of today’s most impressive lists of competition victories, Dmitri has also enjoyed teaching and composing. He has successfully taught piano and chamber music master classes at various universities across the United States, has served as a jury member and his compositions have been performed by orchestras in the United States and in Europe. The focus of his compositions is described in Broad Street Review: “…the musicians could jump right into the heartfelt melodies and big emotional surges of Levkovich’s slow movement.” On numerous occasions Dmitri was confirmed as Audience Favorite by receiving Audience Prizes at the Cleveland and Viardo International Piano Competitions and was recognized as an advocate of Chopin's music by receiving the Chopin Prize at both the Cleveland International Piano Competition and China International Piano Competition. In 2013 Dmitri Levkovich won the prestigous German Piano Award "Deutscher Pianistenpreis" in Frankfurt, Germany
Dmitri’s performances have taken him all over the world. He has appeared at many of the most prestigious concert halls and festivals including the Contemporary Piano Faces at Mariinsky Theater’s Concert Hall in St. Petersburg, Carnegie Hall and Beijing's National Center for the Performing Arts. He has collaborated with conductors Vladimir Spivakov, Jahja Ling, and George Pehlivanian and has been featured as soloist with numerous orchestras, among them the Cleveland Orchestra, Utah Symphony, China National Orchestra and the Gulbenkian Orchestra of Portugal. Many of his performances have been broadcast on television and radio stations.
