Harris Center's KEYBOARD CONVERSATIONS with Jeffrey Siegel Continues Tonight

His enthusiasm is contagious...his credentials world-class...his virtuosity astounding! Internationally celebrated pianist Jeffrey Siegel and his Keyboard Conversations returns to the Harris Center for the Arts in Folsom as part of the new 2015-2016 season.

Keyboard Conversations are concerts with lively commentary. Prior to performing each work, Mr. Siegel briefly, and in non-technical language, engagingly speaks about the music. These programs enrich the listening experience for the avid music lover as well as provide an inviting, entertaining, instantly accessible introduction to great music for the novice. The Los Angeles Times acclaims "Jeffrey Siegel has everything: massive technique, musical sensitivity and character, wide tonal resources, immense reserves of power, and the ability to communicate."

Keyboard Conversations with Jeffrey Siegel: The Golden Age of the Piano will take place tonight, August 22, 2015 at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $29-$39; Students with ID $9. Tickets are available online at www.harriscenter.net or from Harris Center Ticket Office at 916-608-6888 from 10 am to 6 pm, Monday through Saturday, and two hours before show time. Parking is included in the price of the ticket. Harris Center is located on the west side of Folsom Lake College campus in Folsom, CA, facing East Bidwell Street.

The "Golden Age of the piano" is generally considered to be the late 19th and early 20th century. According to Siegel, "This program features some of the most popular, deeply cherished musical hits of yesteryear, loved by listeners worldwide, including masterpieces by Gershwin, Rachmaninoff, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Dvo?ák-and more!"

Hailed by the New York Times as "an artist who means every note he plays," this American pianist has been soloist with the world's great orchestras. Abroad, these include the Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony, Philharmonic and Philharmonia, Moscow State Symphony, Munich's Bayerischer Rundfunk, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Amsterdam, Oslo and Stockholm, the Orchestra of La Scala and NHK Symphony of Japan. In the United States, engagements have included the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Philadelphia Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Siegel has collaborated with many of the preeminent conductors of our time: Pierre Boulez, Charles Dutoit, Neeme Järvi, James Levine, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Leonard Slatkin, Michael Tilson Thomas, and David Zinman, as well as legendary maestros of the past, including Claudio Abbado, Eugene Ormandy, Sir George Solti, William Steinberg, Klaus Tennstedt and Yevgeny Svetlanov.

Mr. Siegel's ongoing series of Keyboard Conversations flourish in numerous American cities, among them New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Phoenix, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Dallas, Denver and Washington, D. C. Some of these venues have been presenting Keyboard Conversations for more than forty years - resounding testimony to Jeffrey Siegel's superb artistry, innovative format and loyal fans.

He has also recorded The Power and Passion of Beethoven, The Romanticism of the Russian Soul and The Romance of the Piano (Random House Audio Publishing Group); Music for the Young - and Young at Heart (WFMT Radio, Chicago) and American Pianistic Treasures (WEDU, Tampa). Jeffrey Siegel's recording of Gershwin's complete works for piano and orchestra, with Leonard Slatkin and the Saint Louis Symphony, continues to be a best seller and is available on Amazon.

Please visit Mr. Siegel's website at www.keyboardconversations.com for further information. Jeffrey Siegel is a Steinway artist.

Future Keyboard Conversations by Mr. Siegel at Harris Center are Splendor from Silence, January 16, 2016, and Two Great Romantics - Schumann and Chopin, May 4, 2016. For further details visit www.harriscenter.net.