Brahms Piano Concerto
Saturday, May 2, 2009 at 8:00pm
Sunday, May 3, 2009 at 2:30pm
Bruno Ferrandis, conductor
Norman Krieger, piano


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Program Information 

BRAHMS/Schoenberg - Piano Quartet                                      
BRAHMS - Piano Concerto No.2 in B-flat major

Johannes Brahms blended classical ideals with the passions of the Romantic Age. To commemorate the composer's 175th birthday, maestro JoAnn Falletta conducts the BPO in two festive programs. The first features two of his revered masterpieces for piano, featuring the renowned Brahms interpreter Norman Krieger as soloist. After offering Schönberg's inspired orchestration of Brahm's lyrical Piano Quartet, Op.25, Mr. Krieger will return to the Steinway to perform the composer's grandly cast Piano Concerto No.2 – with virtouso prowess and poetry straight from the heart.

Artist Profile

Norman Krieger is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation, highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity and virtuosic flair.

Norman Krieger regularly appears with the major orchestras of North America, among them the New York, Los Angeles, Dayton and Hamilton Philharmonics, the Minnesota Orchestra, the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Baltimore, California, Chicago, Cincinnati, Florida, Hartford, Honolulu, Kansas City, Milwaukee, National, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Pittsburgh, Richmond, Saint Louis, San Antonio, San Diego and Syracuse Symphony Orchestras. He has also been heard as guest soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Prague's Czech National Symphony Orchestra, Turkey's Presidential Symphony Orchestra, New Zealand's Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and Taiwan's National Symphony Orchestra. In recital, he has been heard throughout the United States, Europe, Mexico and Asia, while chamber music collaborations have included appearances with soprano Sheri Greenawald, violinist Livia Sohn, cellist Jian Wang and the Tokyo and Manhattan String Quartets. In the summer of 1994, Mr. Krieger made his debut at New York City's prestigious Mostly Mozart Festival, earning an immediate invitation to Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' 1995-96 "Great Performers Series."

Norman Krieger's current season is highlighted by his debuts with Germany's Philharmonisches Orchster Augsburg, Holland's Orkest van het Oostenaand a return to Mexico's Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa. In the United States, he appears as guest soloist with the symphony orchestras of California, Canton, Grand Rapids, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Richmond, San Juan, Santa Fe and Southeast Texas as well as the Greeley and Tennessee Philharmonics.