Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Jeffrey Siegel’s KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS® Series Concludes with The Power and Passion of Brahms, April 9

MARCH 12, 2012

Distinguished pianist Jeffrey Siegel concludes his Keyboard Conversations® concert-plus-commentary series with The Power and Passion of Brahms on Monday, April 9, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in Perelman Theater.  Siegel performs and comments on Brahms’ most intricate and treasured compositions including the lyrical Ballades, Op. 10, which reflects the mysteriously affectionate relationship between Brahms and Clara Schumann during the infancy of his career, as well as the smoldering balance of power and poetry of Rhapsodies, Op. 79, written by Brahms 25 years later. Also on the program is newly discovered work of Brahms, never before heard in Philadelphia titled Albumblatt.

 

“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

 

Tickets for Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel: The Power and Passion of Brahms 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. (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.”

—Los Angeles Times

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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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