Adam B. Levowitz works have been performed throughout the United States and around the world. He has the distinct honor of having composed "The Home of Warrior Care" chosen as the official song of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC. In the spring of 2008, he had the privilege of conducting trumpet soloist Sergeant Major Chuck Seipp, and the United States Army Band, "Pershing's Own" in the world premier performance of his Sonata for Trumpet on the steps of the United States Capitol in Washington, DC.

Mr. Levowitz has received numerous commissions from professional, community and school groups including Symponic Sketches by the Katy Wind Symphony, The Day Thou Gavest, by the Houston Symphonic Band, Deep Water Bay but the Association of Texas Small School Bands, and Greek Folk Song Suite
- Mousiki Tou Teras (Music of the Monsters) for the Thoreau Middle School Symphonic Band.
 
Director Paul Eiseman, commissioned him to compose scores for new interpretations of Shakespearean classics: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, both presented in New York City. Their collaboration continues with an opera Strands, suggested by The Book of Ruth; and a musical: Galaxy Cigarettes presents ‘It’s Your World: a satirical morality play about the plight of two average, supposedly moral Americans who become contestants on a 1950’s quiz show and then learn that it is fixed.

The Pied Piper, a full length, modern dance ballet, received its world premiere, conducted by Mr. Levowitz, in the Fall of 1996. Other works include The Tell-Tale Heart, a work for Tenor and Orchestra using Edgar Alan Poe’s original text, Father Grigory, an opera based on Rasputin, Mata Hari, a ballet, The Three Princes, an opera for children, as well as numerous choral and chamber works.

Mr. Levowitz  was awarded an ASCAP Plus for the work he did as composer for Congregation Brith for the past two years. He was commissioned by Hazzan Steven C. Berke to compose many works including Lamentations for String Trio, for Tisha B’Av; Respondemos for Soprano, Tenor and String Quartet, for Slichot; Chanukah Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano¸ and Hine Ba HaShalom, performed with the Robyn Helzner Trio in a concert at Brith Shalom and Shir l’Herut, which was composed for this year’s Houston Cantor’s concert for which Mr. Levowitz also served as conductor.

Levowitz’s children’s musical Rip Van Winkle, for which he wrote book, music, and lyrics, received it’s world premiere at The American Stage Festival, an equity theater located 75 miles north of Boston to a combined audience of over 2000.

Levowitz was the first recipient of the Moritz Von Bomhard Graduate Fellowship in music composition at the University of Louisville which led to a Master’s degree with an emphasis in operatic composition. While in Louisville, he studied composition and orchestration with Marc Satterwhite, Steve Rouse and Frederick Speck. He received his Bachelor of Music Theory Degree at the University of North Texas in Denton. 

Raised in Houston, Mr. Levowitz began his piano studies at age eight. He studied trumpet at the Hong Kong Conservatory of Music with New York City Ballet Orchestra trumpeter, Henry Nowak. His studies continued with David Washburn, principal trumpet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. His first professional jobs were playing trumpet in pit orchestras in Hong Kong. He sat in the Assistant Principal Trumpet chair of the Hong Kong Chamber Orchestra for two seasons and played lead trumpet in the German-Swiss International School Big Band during their tour of India. Levowitz performed in Daharki, Pakistan with national pop-star Mohamed Ali Sheki and other musicians in Taiwan, Bangkok, Shanghai, and Beijing. He has played in an assortment of brass ensembles, German Polka Bands, and New Orleans Dixieland Bands.

 He is married to his high school sweetheart, Janet and is the father of their two children, Max and Samantha.

 

   
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