Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel Returns to the Kimmel Center Perelman Theater with a Mozart Celebration
February 7, 2006


Jeffrey Siegel
The Kimmel Center Presents’ Mozart birthday celebration continues with Jeffrey Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® : There’s More to Mozart than Amadeus led by internationally acclaimed pianist and music commentator Jeffrey Siegel on Monday, February 20 at 7:30pm in Perelman Theater. The second of three Keyboard Conversations® is a highlight of the Kimmel Center’s ongoing Monday’s at the Merck adult education classes and will explore the astonishing variety of Mozart’s music from the imaginative variations on the tune “Twinkly, Twinkle Little Star,” to the dynamic A minor Sonata, written following his mother’s death. The performance also includes the Philadelphia premiere of the unpublished Six Conertpartituren by Mozart’s great rival, Salieri.

Siegel’s Keyboard Conversations® concludes with Sensuous Sonorities on Chopin on March 20 at 7:30pm.

Tickets for Keyboard Conversations® with Jeffrey Siegel are $26, and can be purchased by calling 215-893-1999, online 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 215-893-5883.

For 32 years Jeffrey Siegel has been presenting Keyboard Conversations® to thousands of enthusiastic concert goers in eighteen countries and across the United States. As Siegel continues to provide educational and entertaining performances, his audience becomes more knowledgeable of the music geniuses of the past before hearing a piece in its entirety. His pre-performance conversation which combines history and humor is enjoyed by both classical music newcomers and connoisseurs.

Admired as a distinguished pianist, Siegel has been a soloist with some of the world’s great orchestras including: the Berlin Philharmonic, Moscow State Symphony, all the major London orchestras, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Oslo Philharmonic, Stockholm Philharmonic, The Hague Residentie Orkfest, Orchestra of La Scala and the NHK Symphony of Japan. Performances with U.S. orchestras include The Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Cleveland Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In addition, Jeffrey Siegel has appeared as a conductor with the Pittsburgh, Milwaukee and Saint Louis Symphony Orchestras, The Minnesota Orchestra and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, as well as various orchestras abroad. Siegel also recorded Gershwin’s complete works for piano and orchestra with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra.

A limited number of $10 tickets are available for every Kimmel Center Presents performance at the Kimmel Center. Tickets go on sale the day of the event and can be purchased at the Kimmel Center box office beginning 2.5 hours prior to evening performances and 11:30am for matinees.

Kimmel Center Presents’ 2005/2006 season is supported by: Mellon Financial Corporation, University of Pennsylvania Health System, Sovereign Bank, The American Express Company, Verizon Foundation, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the National Endowment for the Arts, and The William Penn Foundation. Special Student Matinees at the Kimmel Center are generously supported by Merck & Co., Inc. American Airlines is the Official Airline of Kimmel Center Presents. Toyota is the Official Vehicle of Kimmel Center Presents Jazz and World Pop programming. In-kind support is generously provided by Deloitte and Southern Wine and Spirit. NBC-10 is a Media Partner for Kimmel Center Presents.

KIMMEL CENTER PRESENTS
Keyboard Conversations®: There’s More to Mozart than Amadeus
Monday, February 20 | 7:30pm
Perelman Theater

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