Lev Mamuya

Lev Mamuya is a Los Angeles-based writer, musician, and arts administrator. His pieces on music, food, and popular culture have been featured in outlets such as The Drift and San Francisco Classical Voice. He has performed extensively as a cellist across the U.S., including recent engagements with the Semiosis Quartet and Castle of Our Skins. He has also worked as an editor, administrator, and producer for NPR’s From the Top and other arts organizations.

Articles By This Author

Lev Mamuya - June 25, 2024

With an array of specially constructed instruments, this group celebrates originality and innovation and puts on a great show at REDCAT.

Lev Mamuya - June 17, 2024

Played simultaneously on a rotating turntable, the double production invites speculation on power relations and much more.

Lev Mamuya - June 11, 2024

Beth Morrison Projects commissioned 14 composers to work on this operatic setting of Marie Howe’s book of poems about womanhood.

Lev Mamuya - May 6, 2024

Widely divergent approaches to composition make for an ear-opening experience.

Lev Mamuya - April 29, 2024

Composer Molly Joyce and choreographer Jerron Herman are exploring the ways we symbolically divide the human body.

Lev Mamuya - April 15, 2024

Composer Huang Ruo and puppeteer Basil Twist offer a multivalent embodiment of classic Chinese tales.

Lev Mamuya - April 9, 2024

The group’s collaboration with electronic musician Jlin anchors a riveting L.A. show.

Lev Mamuya - March 26, 2024

Aaron Diehl shines in Timo Andres’s new piano concerto, while the orchestra’s principals solo in music by Adams and Aaron Copland.

Lev Mamuya - March 8, 2024

The indie musician’s Song of the Earth is as much a showcase for the orchestra as it is for his band, Dirty Projectors.

Lev Mamuya - March 4, 2024

Conductor Susanna Mälkki leads an LA Phil premiere and then collaborates with Daniil Trifonov on Brahms’s Second Piano Concerto.