Jeffrey Biegel

In a day and time when many artists’ fortunes start out with a meteoric ascent and quickly cool using the inexorable freefall, pianist Jeffrey Biegel has were able to buck that trend, fashioning a profession of steady success studded with concerts at main venues like Avery Fisher Hall along with front-rank ensembles just like the Philadelphia Orchestra and Boston Pops. He in addition has made an appearance on such tv programs nearly as good Morning hours America, and he’s blazed several trails, as well: in July 1997 Biegel was the 1st pianist to provide a live Internet recital; that same 12 months he performed the hardly ever heard initial 1924 edition of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue using the Boston Pops, a meeting receiving protection on ABC tv, CNN, and NPR. Biegel’s repertory is really as bulky since it is usually eclectic, consuming concertos and single functions by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, and ratings of modern composers, like Keith Emerson and William Bolcom. Many composers possess written works designed for him, like Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (Millennium Dream, for piano and orchestra) and Richard Danielpour (Mirrors, for piano and orchestra). Biegel can be a composer, arranger, and music editor, and shows in the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. A corrective medical procedures at age group three healed Jeffrey Biegel of deafness and his lack of ability to speak. Biegel researched music at Juilliard using the iconic Adele Marcus. In 1985 Biegel earned the William Kappell International Piano Competition, and four years afterwards captured first award at the renowned Paris-based Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud International Competition. Biegel’s initial recording was released in 1993, a Marco Polo disk of César Cui’s 25 Preludes, Op. 64 (afterwards reissued on Naxos). Biegel’s developing fame was additional boosted by his pioneering Internet recital, a Compact disc which was released with the Angelok label. In 2000 Biegel premiered Zwilich’s Millennium Illusion using the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Various other such high-profile premieres implemented, including Biegel’s initial efficiency of Lowell Lieberman’s Concerto No. 3, using the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra on, may 12, 2006. That same season Biegel documented the rarely noticed and unjustly neglected Leroy Anderson Piano Concerto, released in 2008 with an acclaimed all-Anderson Naxos Compact disc. Biegel, no stranger to chamber music, shaped Trio21 this year 2010, with violinist Kinga Augustyn and cellist Robert deMaine. Biegel’s recordings are the 2010 Bach on the Steinway in the Steinway & Sons label.