![]() By then, he was already flying to competitions and the school principal suggested it would be better if he were home-schooled. He attended a regular school until seventh grade. He loves his hometown, he said, because it’s “near strawberry fields.”Ĭonnect with your community every morning. Levanon lives near Tel Aviv in Hod Hasharon and has two older brothers and a younger sister. The American concert pianist Murray Perahia told Levanon that before a performance, “you learn a lot and then forget it as soon as you’re on stage and then you just play the piece.” Photo of Yoav Levanon © Nir Slakman No stage fright It feels really natural for me to read music and then memorize it.” Like in a sonata, one time something happens and then you know it will happen a different way. It’s like when you see a movie and you understand. You understand that if it goes this way, it will then go that way. “I always wonder what it would be like to memorize a long speech,” he mused. ![]() On stage, there is no sheet music for him to follow it’s all in his head. Levanon has what appears like an effortless ability to memorize music. “I try to understand what the composer wanted,” he explained, so that he can perform it and “make it my own.” When he starts learning a piece of music, he incorporates music theory to grasp the piece’s structure and history. He said he has had the opportunity to meet with “so many different amazing pianists, and I draw inspiration from everyone.” Levanon has had a variety of teachers over the years, explaining that he learned something valuable from each because “teachers look at different music in different ways.” What I play must have meaning for me because me and the audience are one.” Yoav Levanon | What the composer wanted “Competitions have always been a way for me to perform for people. “I never get nervous at competitions because I think I have to win,” he said. Two years later, he went to his first competition and won. His mother, who plays piano as a hobby, showed him “a bit of what to do.” He “thought it was so cool,” and began studying piano. He remembered “pressing some stuff” on the piano. He tells ISRAEL21c that his parents have an appreciation for music but nobody in his family is a professional musician. Levanon is energetic, funny, modest and full of passion for music. He appeared in a film with maestro Daniel Barenboim in 2021. At age 13, he performed with the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra.
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