House Concert Fundraiser
You are Invited...
to another intimate event featuring Gabriel Lefkowitz
To purchase your attendance at the house concert, we ask you to
make a $150 donation per attendee. Your name will be added to the guest list.
All proceeds from this special fundraiser will enable us to inspire, educate,
and enrich our audiences through exceptional, professional
musical performances and community outreach.
Thursday, June 5, 2025
4:15 Wine and Hors d’oeuvres
5:00 concert
6:00 Post-Concert Q & A
$150 donation per person
Donate soon because seating is very limited.
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or 828.884.4221
Gabriel is the Concertmaster & Resident Conductor of The Louisville Orchestra, Artistic Director & Conductor of the Louisville Civic Orchestra, Artistic Director of The Chamber Orchestra of Louisville, and is active as a soloist, guest conductor, guest concertmaster, chamber musician, and teacher. A progressive musician of the 21st century, Gabriel is also a composer who has written the music for several video games, composed several full length albums of original music (one of which has over a million views on YouTube), and was the featured violin soloist on the soundtrack for the film Harriet (Focus Features).
During his 8-year tenure as Concertmaster of The Louisville Orchestra so far, Gabriel has led nearly 200 different programs from the concertmaster chair and has performed the violin concerti of Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Bach, Vivaldi, and others. In October 2019, Gabriel performed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon with LO music director Teddy Abrams, Jim James, and several LO colleagues to promote the orchestra's new album The Order of Nature.
This season at the LO, Gabriel performs Ellen Taafe Zwilich’s Double Concerto alongside LO principal cellist Nicholas Finch. They will additionally perform a new commission by composer Alex Berko on the same program, also written for violin, cello, and orchestra.
In 2011, at the age of 23, Gabriel became one of the youngest concertmasters of a professional orchestra in the U.S. when he was appointed Concertmaster of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra. During his 6-year tenure with KSO, Gabriel performed the concerti of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Korngold, Mozart (No. 3), and others. He also founded the KSO’s still beloved and wildly successful Concertmaster Series (then called Gabriel Lefkowitz & Friends) at which he performed over 30 recitals (16 different programs with no overlapping repertoire) over the course of 5 seasons.
Recent guest engagements include concerto performances of Brahms (Brevard Philharmonic), Stravinsky (Monteux School and Music Festival Orchestra), Florence Price No. 1 (McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra - the Ohio premiere of this work), Mozart No. 4 (Cape Cod Chamber Orchestra), Mozart No. 5 (Oak Ridge Symphony), Philip Glass No. 1 (Ocala Symphony), and performing as guest concertmaster with the Phoenix Symphony, Brevard Music Center, Britt Festival Orchestra, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and Nu Deco Ensemble.
Gabriel holds a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University where he studied music and economics and a Masters from The Juilliard School where he studied violin with Joel Smirnoff and Masao Kawasaki. He has studied conducting with pedagogues including Michael Jinbo, Markand Thakar, Larry Rachleff, David Effron, and others.
