Saturday, January 21, 2012—7:30 PM
Riverview Theatre
Norman Krieger, piano  | Bio

BRAHMS - Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major
BRAHMS - Symphony No. 2 in D Major

Revel in a full evening of lush music by Johannes Brahms, a pinnacle composer of the Romantic era. Brahms’ Second Symphony is his most high-spirited work with an athletic, exuberant ending. The renowned pianist Norman Krieger will perform Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 2, one of the most beloved works in classical music.

"He owns a world of technique—take that for granted. He always knows exactly where he is going and what he is doing...He is alert to every manner of nuance and at every dynamic level his tone flatters the ear."
~Los Angeles Times

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Norman Krieger, piano

A native of Los Angeles, 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, Buffalo, 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, and 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.