Israeli pianist, 17, gets a second foot on ladder
NewsJasper Parrott has just undertaken general management for Yoav Levanon, 17, an Israeli pianist who has been appearing in competitions since he was five years old.
Earlier this year, Warner gave him a record contract.
Some time next year he will have to go to the army.
Honestly? A seemingly boring pianist whose career seems to only have been hoisted upwards by the big name festival mafia in Europe (Verbier Festival, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Tsinandali Festival) with immense media support from Medici.
I smell a lot of Russian money backing this child prodigy…
He had to go to the army? I’m sure that with that hair and those cheekbones he’ll do an excellent job entertaining the troops.
Erm…who is he? And what competitions exactly has he won? And why is he getting all this promotion?
One can name at least 50 other more interesting pianists who deserve this.
Ugly. Smooth skin. Looks like a baby, not a man.
Why commenting on someone’s looks? He’s only a minor, please don’t be a bully.
This dinosaur agent is obsessed with youth. As a businessman, of course, that’s smart. You can make very good money with so-called child prodigies, it has worked like that for centuries and people always jump at it. In fact, his young artists like Mäkelä, Hahn, Zhu or now this child have nothing to say, neither musically nor artistically.
Is HP seriously replacing the internationally renowned and undisputed genius pianist Krystian Zimerman with an effete, indulged, self-proclaimed boy-wonder ivory tickler?
Or has Jasper finally fallen off his pompous perch?
I am not aware you f this talented young pianist. Although I am not an artist representative, if I were, there would be specific criteria. Not winning competitions does not figure. Winning competitions does not figure. Actually, winning them is a short lived success until the next winner. What happens after winning is the most important thing.
A: repertoire list
1: solo
2: concertos
3: chamber music
4: vocal, choral, ballet
accompanying experience
B: engagements – list of concerto performances, recitals, chamber music (level of orchestras of some significance; the recordings of these more significant especially the soloist part, which must be attractive enough to entice conductors to listen and raise an eyebrow for future potential)
C: teaching experience and aspirations, master classes etc
There are components to a young career, not just some bullet points of competitions and a few star engagements. It is a longer term, broader representation to build, not just take on to sell another brand of toothpaste. Big question: which repertoire do you have that hardly anyone else performs? Why do you want to include this music? Another question: which living composers have music you perform or would like to, and why? Are you curious about commissioning new music, do you have composer friends?
Just my take on 21st century artist management.
Barry Manilow wants his hair back.
He plays beautifully, as Tom Borrow does. Yoav has a calmness and surety of phrasing, immense in its perspective which is heartbreaking. Even more so for me to hear, that just as Tom Borrow, and just as Aviram Reichart he has a rather heavy handed technique. Who is teaching these people?
Again the technique that Maria Curcio taught (Argerich and Uchida) would release them even further, as the world waits for such a miracle.
Also, Liszt was sent a Faure piano quartet (or more than one), and sent it back saying that the harmonies were too difficult. Is this STILL so!? must we keep on hearing the same warhorses over and OVER and OVERAND OVER ANDOVER AND OVERANDOVER ANDOVERANDOVER ANDOVERANDOVERAND over…
I WILL be glad when it’s over.
truly.
Let us give him a chance – but, it’s a hard way and Jasper let him fall, as soon as he dosn’t pay off!
Let’s give him a chance, but we have to realize, that Jasper will let him fall, as soon as he dosn’t pay off!
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