About Jeffrey Biegel
Considered one of the world's most prolific pianists, Jeffrey Biegel, respected for his incomparable interpretations of standard repertoire, continues to make history by commissioning more than 25 works for piano and orchestra by living composers. In November 2024, Mr. Biegel's recording of Jake Runestad's Dreams of the Fallen with True Concord Voices and Orchestra on the Reference Recordings® label, received a GRAMMY® nomination for Best Choral Performance, a work reflecting lives of surviving veterans, poems by Iraq War veteran, Brian Turner.
Mr. Biegel's 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.
The 50-state 'Rhapsody National Initiative' was launched with the World Premiere by the Utah Symphony with Peter Boyer's Rhapsody in Red, White & Blue, followed with the World Premiere recording with the London Symphony Orchestra on the Naxos Records label. The 2024-25 season brings Mr. Biegel to the Pacific Symphony with Music Director Carl St. Clair for the World Premiere of Adolphus Hailstork's Concerto No. 3, and the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in fall 2025 for the World Premiere of James Lee III's Concerto in A celebrating the centennial of George Gershwin's Concerto in F.
