James Levine Net Worth
Famous American conductor and pianist James Levine is best known for being the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera from 1976 to 2016. James Levine’s current net worth is estimatedly 3 million dollars as of 2016. Let’s take a closer look on his remarkable music career.
James Levine was born June 23rd, 1943, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Levine’s parents were artists, mother was an actress and father was a violinist. When he was little, he started playing the piano. He was only ten years old at the time of his solo concert debut in the the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Then he began music studies with the LaSalle Quartet violinist Walter Levin. He also had Rudolf Serkin as his piano teacher.
In 1964, James graduated from the prestigious Juilliard School. Then he joined the American Conductors project. For one year, he served as an apprentice, then for five years as an assistant conductor. In 1970, he debuted with the Philadelphia Orchestra as a guest conductor. His amazing career as a conductor started.
Besides the Metropolitan Opera, Levine was in the lead of the Munich Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Ravinia Festival. He is the founder of the Lindemann Young Artists Development Program and he often trains hopeful conductors, and musicians.
