Louis Levitt
As a founding member of Sybarite5, Louis Levitt was the first double bassist to win the Concert Artist Guild Competition. Since then, he has performed with Sybarite5 in hundreds of concerts across the nation. Recent highlights include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, the Grand Tetons Music Festival, and the Aspen Music Festival. Internationally, he has appeared at the New Docta International Music Festival in Argentina, Tuckamore Chamber Music Festival in Newfoundland, Canada, Osaka Festa in Japan, and at the Forum in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. His self-produced debut EP with Sybarite5 cracked the top ten on the Billboard charts, and their follow-up LP, Everything In Its Right Place, was released at Carnegie Hall on CAG Records. For their latest album, Outliers, Louis launched a record label, and the album debuted at #1 on the Billboard Classical Charts.
Levitt currently teaches double bass at the Mason Gross School of Music at Rutgers University and the Mostly Modern Festival. He is also in demand as a guest soloist and lecturer. He has recently performed and spoken at the Curtis Institute, the New England Conservatory, the Mannes School, the annual Chamber Music America conference, and the Association of Performers and Presenters national arts conference in New York City.
Mr. Levitt has also recently served as a principal double bassist for the Iris Chamber Orchestra in Memphis, TN; the NOVUS Orchestra in NYC, NY; the Mostly Modern Festival Orchestra in Saratoga Springs, NY; and the Stereo Hideout Orchestra in Brooklyn, NY.
Levitt is also in demand as a writer and has been published by New Music USA and The 21CM Institute for Music Entrepreneurship at DePauw University.
Inspired by the Phoenix Concert Series in NYC, and Mike Blocks Silkroad Global Musician’s Workshop, Mr. Levitt’s latest project is a critically acclaimed record label, production company, and creative agency dubbed Bright & Shiny Things (brightshiny.ninja). He resides in NYC with his wife and two “spirited” children: Ian and Walker.
