Sabine Levi

On 18 May 2014 Sabine Levi took part in the Festive Concert of Jewish Synagogue Music at the Sofia Synagogue — a programme for vocal and instrumental soloists in repertoire rooted in the liturgical and concert traditions of Jewish music. Sabin Levi, doctor of musical arts and fellow of the American Guild of Organists, took his doctorate in composition and organ at the University of Kansas in 2004 and is a composer, organist, carillonneur and teacher who studied music in Bulgaria, Israel, France and the United States; a prizewinner of composition and organ competitions, published as musicologist, composer, translator and music editor in Bulgaria, Israel, Britain, the Netherlands and the United States, he is an active concert organist, harpsichordist and carillonneur in Bulgaria, Israel, England, France, Germany, Italy, Hungary, Serbia and the United States and an associate professor of music theory and organ in Sofia; he was born in Sofia on 20 January 1970. He began the piano at five and studied for a single semester in the theory department of the Sofia academy before emigrating to Israel, where he took double bachelor's degrees in organ and composition at the Rubin Academy in Jerusalem, adding two master's degrees at Brigham Young University in 1998. He has written four books and some sixty compositions, among them a ballet, chamber music and a complete cycle of organ chorale preludes built on Sephardic songs.