Clarinetist Levana Cohen is an avid performer and music educator.  Levana’s highly acclaimed artistry garners repeat guest performances with the distinguished Stony Brook School of Music faculty.  Dr. Cohen’s enthusiasm for teaching young musicians is evident in her student’s accomplishments on a national level.  As a frequent guest clinician, her systematic teaching methods have been recognized throughout the country in master classes for such institutions as the Cascade Youth Symphony, Roosevelt High School and the Seattle Jewish Primary School in Seattle, WA, Edgewood Middle School in Bloomington, IN, and El Dorado Middle School in Roseville, CA.

Levana holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Washington State University, and both a Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts from SUNY Stony Brook under the guidance of Professor Daniel Gilbert.

Aside from teaching, Dr. Cohen has performed with the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra under the leadership of James Levine and has been a returning guest artist of the Emerson String Quartet Chamber Music Festival in featured performances of Bartok Contrasts, Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Mozart Keglestatt Trio, and Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.

During her graduate residency at Stony Brook University, Levana enjoyed regular performances with Stony Brook’s renowned Contemporary Chamber Players and was a rotating principal clarinetist of the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra.

Levana Cohen has studied exclusively with Daniel Gilbert, Dr. James Schoepflin, Laura Deluca, Mary Kantor, and Howard Klug.  She collaborates further in master classes and chamber music with Jon Mannasse, David Krakauer, Frank Kowalsky, Frank Morelli, Colin Carr, William Purvis, Ani Kavafian, Pamela Frank, the Emerson String Quartet, Gilbert Kalish, Stephen Taylor, Tina Dahl, James Campbell, Charles Neidich, and Eli Eban.