Lawrence Leviton is Artist/Teacher of Cello at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. He received his Doctorate in cello performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Minnesota and his Master's degree in performance from Northwestern University. He also holds a degree in psychology from the University of Illinois.
Originally from Chicago, Dr. Leviton has been active as a clinician and performer throughout the country. He has been a frequent performer on Wisconsin Public Radio. He has appeared with the orchestras of the Aspen Music Festival, the Joffrey Ballet, and served as co-principal cello in the Chicago Chamber Orchestra.
Dr. Leviton is one of the Regional Directors for the Wisconsin Cello Society. His affiliations include the American String Teachers Association and the American Suzuki Association. He is the student chapter advisor for the UWSP student ASTA chapter which now boasts 20 members. He was nominated for membership in Pi Kappa Lambda, the national music honorary society, at both the University of Minnesota and Northwestern University.
Dr. Leviton's students have won numerous awards both in Wisconsin and nationally. His students have won concerto competitions and performed with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the Fox Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Fox Valley Youth Symphony, and the Green Bay Youth Symphony. His students are consistently chosen for state honors orchestras and have served as section leaders in these ensembles. Former students of Dr. Leviton's have gone on to study cello performance in undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Michigan, the University of Minnesota, the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Rice University, Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard school among others.
In recent years, Dr. Leviton has spoken throughout the country on the subject of film music. He has presented papers and participated in conferences in Dallas, Albuquerque, Los Angeles and Madison. He has received several grants to further his study of film music and wrote his Dissertation on the Cello Concerto of noted film composer, Erich Wolfgang Korngold. He has been teaching the course, Music in Film at UWSP for the past 15 years. It is one of the first courses of its kind in Wisconsin.