Karyn Levitt is among the leading Lied singers of the highly demanding Eisler repertoire. A celebrated soprano and distinguished producer, Ms. Levitt is known for her historic collaboration with Eric Bentley, whose centennial tribute she produced at The Town Hall, now documented in the feature film Honoring Eric Bentley: A Centennial Tribute Concert.

Her two shows Will There Still Be Singing? A Hanns Eisler Cabaret and On Hollywood and Weimar: Songs of European Composers from the Golden Age of Film have been presented across the U.S. and Europe. Festival appearances include Carnegie Hall’s “Fall of the Weimar Republic” festival and the JxJ Music and Film Festival. She has been presented by The American Society for Jewish Music in collaboration with the Leo Baeck Institute, Off-Broadway’s York Theater, 54 Below, Cafe Sabarsky, Metropolitan Room, Triad Theater, Brecht-Haus in Berlin and the Goethe Instituts in Boston and L.A. She is also enthusiastic about introducing this important repertoire to the next generation, performing and giving master classes at Princeton University, Vassar College, Amherst College, and Bates College. Ms. Levitt looks forward to bringing her shows about Eisler and the other marvelous European film composers to the countries where the composers are from: Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, Hungary, and Italy.

About her album, Eric Bentley’s Brecht-Eisler Song Book, music critic Peter Deeg wrote: "Karyn Levitt is able to achieve great poetic beauty by blending the words and the music to form an artful and contradictory whole, at once unusual and touching," (Internationale Hanns Eisler Gesellschaft, 2016).