Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Jeffrey Siegel’s KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS® Series Begins with A Beethoven Bonanza! on Oct. 10

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

“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

 

Acclaimed pianist Jeffrey Siegel begins his Keyboard Conversations® concert-plus-commentary series on Monday, October 10 2011at 7:30pm in the Perelman Theater with A Beethoven Bonanza! The first of the three-part educational series, A Beethoven Bonanza!  navigates through the famous composer’s myriad moods in a program including the moving and rarely performed Sonata No. 3 in C Major; to his tragic and fiery Sonata Pathétique and transcendent Sonata No. 30 in E Major.

 

The second concert in the series takes place on Monday, January 9, 2012 with Jeffrey Siegel exploring the music of 19th Century’s quintessential “rock star,” Franz Liszt, in a program entitled From Heart to Art: The Romantic Music of Franz Liszt.  Keyboard Conversations concludes on Monday, April 9, 2012 with Jeffrey Siegel’s commentary and performance of The Power and Passion of Brahms, which explores the intricacies of Brahms’ most treasured compositions.

 

Tickets for Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel are available at $30, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online at kimmelcenter.org, or at the Kimmel Center Box Office located on Broad and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, PA 19102 (open daily from 10am to 6pm, later on performance evenings).

 

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. Following the celebrated reception of Keyboard Conversations® in the United Kingdom last season, Keyboard Conversations continue in April and May 2012 at London’s newest arts complex, Kings Place.

 

 “Jeffrey Siegel has everything: massive technique, musical sensitivity and character, wide tonal resources, immense reserves of power, and the ability to communicate.”

–The  Los Angeles Times

 

 

Kimmel Center, Inc., a charitable, not-for-profit organization, owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center.  Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association, and the University of the Arts Merriam Theater. Kimmel Center, Inc.’s mission is to operate a world class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience which includes providing arts in education, community outreach and a rich diversity of programming.  The 2011/2012 season is sponsored by Citi.  For additional information, visit kimmelcenter.org. 

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