 The career of pianist Jeffrey Biegel has been marked by bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a series of firsts.
He performed the first live internet recitals in New York and Amsterdam in 1997 and 1998, enabling him to be seen and heard by a global audience. In 1999, he assembled the largest consortium of orchestras (over 25), to celebrate the millennium with a new concerto composed for him by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The piece, entitled 'Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra', was premiered with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 1997, he performed the World Premiere of the restored, original 1924 manuscript of George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with the Boston Pops. Charles Strouse composed a new work titled 'Concerto America' for Biegel, celebrating America and honoring the heroes and events of 9-11. Biegel premiered the piece with the Boston Pops in 2002. He transcribed the first edition of Balakirev's 'Islamey Fantasy' for piano and orchestra, which he premiered with the American Symphony Orchestra in 2001, and edited and recorded the first complete set of all '25 Preludes' by Cesar Cui.
Currently, he is assembling the first global consortium for the new 'Concerto no. 3 for Piano and Orchestra' being composed for him by Lowell Liebermann for 2005-06-07. The World Premiere will take place with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andreas Delfs on May 12-14 2006, followed by the European Premiere with the Schleswig Holstein Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Oskamp, February 6-9, 2007.
Biegel is currently on the piano faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).
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Friday, April 18, 2008
The LeDor Group Publishes Biegel's Psalms
The LeDor Group Inc, Music Publishing, is pleased to announce the publications by composer/pianist, Jeffrey Biegel.
The brainchild of composer/conductor, Lucas Richman, The LeDor Group publishes a wide variety of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber music and theatre. The selections by Mr. Biegel include:
Psalm 100 'A Psalm of Thanksgiving' (Chorus SATB a cappella)
Psalm 96 'O Sing Unto The Lord' (Chorus SATB divisi, double chorus a cappella)
Psalm 93 'The Lord Reigneth' (Chorus SATB divisi, double chorus a cappella)
Psalm 29 'Psaulme de David' (Chorus SATB divisi, double chorus a cappella, in French)
Please visit the following links for these compositions:
http://www.ledorgroup.com/publishing/vocal/vocalmusic.htm
and
http://www.ledorgroup.com/about/bio.htm
posted by Jeffrey Biegel
5:17 PM
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