Staff Details
Sharon Levin
Flute Teaching Artist
Sharon Levin, flutist, has been a performer, flute choir conductor and flute teacher for over 35 years. She won several awards as a soloist and chamber musician and was featured at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (eight times) and at Merkin Concert Hall in NYC with harpist, Karen Stern. She performed concertos/concerts in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Israel, Ecuador, (National Symphony with harpist Karen Stern and as a soloist), Brazil, (Brazilian Symphony-Rio de Janeiro, & Porto Alegre Symphony with harpist, Karen Stern, among other performances), the North East United States, Texas, and California.
She was principal flutist of the New Jersey Pops Orchestra for over 14 years and later was a regular soloist and principal flutist with the upstate NY Broad Street Orchestra and a sub for an upstate NY Opera Orchestra. “She has something…an understanding of the architectural underpinnings of a piece and an ability to find its emotional hot spots.”– The Wall Street Journal.
Sharon has given lecture performances on Ecuadorian Mestizo Music for the National Flute Association, New York Flute Club, New Jersey Music Educators Conference and other Cultural Institutions. She has two CDs of this music along with articles published in The Flutists Quarterly magazine and the New York Flute Club Newsletter.
She has conducted flute choirs, and gave several master classes and performances at The International Flute Festival in Costa Rica where the 40 piece flute choir performed at the National Theatre, San Jose, Costa Rica. She was the flute choir conductor of the Stamford Young Artists Philharmonic from 2007 - 2010 and the Young Artists Philharmonic from 2014 - 2026.
Over the years Ms. Levin’s students have won top awards with the CMEA All State Program, CMEA Western Regional Program, Concerto Competitions, NY NYSSMA Programs, College Auditions among other musical programs. She was on the music faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology, and Norwalk Community College. She also taught in NJ at Newark Academy, The Hudson School, Sacred Heart Academy and Stevens Co-Op. She was also on the audition panel for the Empire State Youth Orchestra in upstate NY. She teachers out of her private studio in Westport.
Ms. Levin has a Master of Music Degree from Manhattan School of Music in Flute Performance, a “Certificat de Musique de Chambre” from the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris France and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Sarah Lawrence College. As a hobby she enjoys the study the French, Spanish and Italian languages and cultures.