DESCRIPTION:
0:00 Prelude
4:22 Allemande
7:29 Courante
9:24 Sarabande
13:59 Minuets I & II
16:55 Gigue

Suite No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1008, J.S. Bach - Performed on Viola by Jodi Levitz
Prelude
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Minuets I & II
Gigue

Jodi Levitz is an active performer of international reputation and a passionate advocate of new music for viola. She was principal viola and soloist with the Italian chamber group I Solisti Veneti for 12 years, a position she won while still a student at The Juilliard School. She has performed as a soloist throughout Europe, South America, the United States and East Asia, and she has recorded works of Cambini, Giuliani, Hummel, Porter, Mendelssohn, Rolla, Schoenberg and Schubert on the Concerto, Dynamic, Naxos and Erato labels. She served on the faculties of the Ars Musica Academy at Imola, the Progetto Orchestra, numerous European summer festivals and the Zephyr International Chamber Music Festival in Courmayeur, Italy. Levitz attended the Juilliard Pre-College Division from age 12 and received her B.M. and M.M. from Juilliard. Her principal teachers were Margaret Pardee, Paul Doktor, William Lincer and Dorothy DeLay. Levitz is chair of the strings department and co-chair of the string and piano chamber Music Department at the Conservatory and the 2011 recipient of the Sarlo Family Foundation Award for Excellence in Teaching. She serves on the board of the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music and is violist of the
Ives Quartet.