Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® Series Concludes with Chopin and the Future at the Kimmel Center, April 19

MARCH 30, 2010

"Jeffrey Siegel has everything: massive technique, musical sensitivity and character, wide tonal resources, immense reserves of power, and the ability to communicate." —Los Angeles Times

Acclaimed pianist and music educator Jeffrey Siegel concludes this season’s Keyboard Conversations® series with Chopin and the Future program on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. This season, Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® pays tribute to Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin to celebrate the 200th anniversary of his birth. Siegel explores the life and work of Chopin, whose demanding piano pieces remain enduring masterpieces of 19th Century Romanticism. The program will include works of Chopin and composers who were inspired by him—including Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Fauré and Szymanowski.

Now in his 40th season of presenting Keyboard Conversations®, Jeffrey Siegel continues to bring both novice and advanced classical music connoisseurs to a richer understanding and appreciation for works by celebrated composers with his engaging concert-plus-commentary format. Siegel has performed this series in over 25 cities from New York to Los Angeles. Most recently, Siegel was invited to return to London’s venerable Wigmore Hall with a three-program series following last season's successful debut.

"His performances were expressive and full of passion! This is an artist who means every note he plays." –New York Times

Tickets for Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations® are available for $30 and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at www.kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center box office, open daily from 10am to 6pm and later on performance evenings. (Additional fees may apply.) For group sales call 215-790-5883.

A limited number of $10 community rush tickets will be available for this performance. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning at 5:30pm prior to evening curtain time. Limit one ticket per person.

"Insightful and poetically interpreted, both in words and music." –Washington Post

"The Leonard Bernstein of the piano—Siegel’s programs strengthen the bonds between the music and the listener and are as welcome as they are rare." –Chicago Tribune

Jeffrey Siegel has been a soloist with the world's great orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, all the major London orchestras, the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra and many others. As a conductor, he has collaborated with luminaries such as Claudio Abbado, Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Järvi, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas and David Zinman, among others. He has led the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestras, The Minnesota Orchestra and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in France, Scandinavia and South America.

In June 2006, Siegel released four CDs of Keyboard Conversations®: Mozart and Friends, The Power and Passion of Beethoven, The Romanticism of the Russian Soul and The Romance of the Piano (Random House Audio Publishing Group). Most recently, Siegel released a new CD entitled Music for the Young - and Young At Heart (2009), available exclusively at his concerts.

Kimmel Center Presents 2009/10 Season is sponsored by Citi. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents.

Free at the Kimmel programming and subsidized tickets offered to the community and social service groups for $10 are made possible through the Wachovia Gateway to the Arts Community Access Program, supported by a generous grant from the Wachovia Foundation.

The Kimmel Center is a recipient of partnership funding through the nationally recognized PNC "Grow Up Great" initiative, a ten-year, $100 million investment preparing children for success in school and life. Funding gives support to the Kimmel Center’s early childhood program "Bop and Swing," an arts program for children 1-5 years old, designed to promote an appreciation for American culture.

KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS SPONSORED BY CITI

Monday, April 19, 2010 | 7:30pm
Perelman Theater
Jeffrey Siegel's Keyboard Conversations®

Chopin and the Future

Program:
CHOPIN: Prelude in A minor, Op 28, No. 2
TCHAIKOVSKY: Un poco di Chopin, Op. 72, No. 15
DEBUSSY: Etude for the five Fingers
SCRIABIN: Etude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2, No. 1
SCRIABIN: Etude in D-sharp minor, Op. 8, No. 12
FAURÉ: Nocturne No. 3 in A-flat, Op. 33, No 3
LUTOSLAWSKI: Etude No. 1
-Intermission-
LIEBERMANN: Nocturne No. 4, Op. 38
SZYMANOWSKI: Two Mazurkas, Op. 50
CHOPIN: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op 45
CHOPIN: Etude in C minor, Op. 10, No. 12 (Revolutionary)

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