Piano Master Class with Jeffrey Biegel

Piano Masterclass with Jeffrey Biegel

Saturday, Nov 8, 1:15pm

Third Street Music School

Anna-Maria Kellen Concert Hall

Free and open to the public. RSVP required.

Jeffrey Biegel leads a public masterclass with students from Third Street Piano Department. Audience members can watch as jeffrey shares insights, techniques, and tips.

Ideal for piano enthusiasts, aspiring musicians, and anyone interested in the piano.

About Jeffrey

In an age when many artists' fortunes begin with a meteoric ascent and quickly cool with the inexorable free-fall, pianist Jeffrey Biegel has managed to buck that trend, fashioning a career of steady success studded with concerts at major venues with major orchestras, a Grammy winning recording, and more than 30 commissioned works by living composers. His life takes its roots from age three, barely able to hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The 'reverse Beethoven' phenomenon explains his lifelong commitment to music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. 2025 brings the World Premiere of three new works for piano and orchestra: Adolphus Hailstork's "Concerto no. 3" with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, Melissa Manchester's "AWAKE!" for Piano and Orchestra with the Endless Mountain Music Festival, and, James Lee III's "Concerto in A" with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra. The 2024 recording of Jake Runestad's "Dreams of the Fallen" with True Concord Voices and Orchestra garnered a Best Choral Performance Grammy nomination, on the Reference Recordings label. June 2023-August 2027 features the Rhapsody National Initiative - the first 50-state project for a new work for soloist and orchestra, also the first 50-state project for a new work without composer fees required from orchestras. Peter Boyer's "Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue" has embraced the nation and boasts a recording with the London Symphony Orchestra on the Naxos label. In 2022, he premiered Jim Stephenson's 'Piano Concerto', Daniel Perttu's 'A Planets Odyssey' for piano and orchestra, Farhad Poupel's "The Legend of Bijan and Manijeh" for piano, orchestra and chorus, his own concerto, 'Three Reflections: Freedom (JFK), Justice (RBG) Equality (MLK)', and Christopher Marshall's 'Thanksgiving Variations on "We Gather Together"'. 2021 saw the world premieres of his "Reflection of Justice: An Ode to Ruth Bader Ginsburg" with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg" for mezzo-soprano, piano and orchestra in tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves. Also, the world premiere of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's "Shadows" newly arranged for piano and seven players with the Idaho State Civic Symphony. The pandemic year 2020 focused on composing original "Waltzes of Hope", "Sonatina", and "Three Reflections: JFK, RBG and MLK" for solo piano, and for piano and orchestra, orchestrations by Harrison Sheckler. It was also a time for Mr. Biegel to raise the monetary funds to commission Mr. Boyer's new "Rhapsody".

He performed Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' with the Boston Pops, St. Louis Symphony, Israel Chamber Orchestra conducted by Philippe Entremont, Germany's Bochumer Symphoniker and Norway's Bergen Philharmonic. On January 8, 2001, he performed missing sections of "Rhapsody in Blue" on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, followed by a performance with the American Symphony Orchestra in New York's Avery Fisher Hall. The program also featured the World Premiere of Mr. Biegel's transcription of Mily Balakirev's 'Islamey Fantasy' for piano and orchestra, George Gershwin's 'Rhapsody in Blue' and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich's 'Peanuts Gallery'.

Leonard Bernstein said of pianist Jeffrey Biegel: "He played fantastic Liszt. He is a splendid musician and a brilliant performer." These comments launched Mr. Biegel's 1986 New York recital debut, as the recipient of the coveted Juilliard William Petschek Piano Debut Award in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Alice Tully Hall. He studied at The Juilliard School with Adele Marcus, herself a pupil of Josef Lhevinne and Artur Schnabel. Mr. Biegel is currently on the piano faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, a City University of New York (CUNY).

About Master Classes

A master class is a special opportunity for students and guests to watch and learn from a guest teacher and expert in their area. Guests work with students as a group or one at a time in front of an audience. The guest can engage with students and audiences in a variety of ways, often providing feedback on how to improve their technique, expression, and interpretation.

Guests may also share stories about their experiences such as their career, learning a piece, working with a composer, demonstrating how to play certain passages, and point out common issues and ways to improve.

All spectators and students can benefit from observing a master class and learning master's teaching and listening to the different versions of the piece.

Master Classes are always free and open to the public to observe.

Questions About the Master Class or Workshop?

Contact: Third Street Music School

email: info@thirdstreet.nyc

Ticket Policy

• RSVPs are first-come, first-served.
• RSVPs are required of all attendees, including children. An adult must accompany all children.
• An RSVP does not guarantee a seat. Free events are oversold to accommodate drops.
• Same-day walkups will be accepted. Remaining seats will be released before the show starts, as space permits.

Venue Policy

• This venue is accessible to wheelchairs
• Large items, including strollers and carts, are not permitted in the hall but can be left in the lobby at the owner's discretion. Third Street does not assume liability for any theft or damage.
• No food or drinks are permitted in the performance space.
• No pets allowed, service animals only.

Photo & Video Policy

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