Jeffrey Biegel is one of today's most respected artists and has created a multi-faceted career as a pianist, composer and arranger. His electrifying technique and mesmerizing touch has won critical acclaim and garners praise throughout the world. Mr. Biegel recently recorded Leroy Anderson's Concerto in C with Leonard Slatkin conducting the BBC Concert Orchestra for Naxos in celebration of the 2008 centennial of Leroy Anderson's birth. His recording of Classical Carols will be available through Koch in the fall 2007. Mr. Biegel is currently assembling a consortium project for William Bolcom's Choral Fantasy for Piano, Orchestra and Chorus for the 2010-11 season with orchestras worldwide.

The career of pianist Jeffrey Biegel has been marked by bold, creative achievements and highlighted by a series of firsts: He envisioned and performed the first live internet recitals in New York and Amsterdam in 1997 and 1998, enabling him to be seen and heard by a global audience. In 1999, he assembled the largest consortium of orchestras (over 25), to celebrate the millennium with a new concerto composed for him by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. The Millennium Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra was premiered with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. In 1997, he performed the Boston premiere of the restored, original 1924 manuscript of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue with the Boston Pops. He transcribed the first edition of Balakirev's Islamey Fantasy for piano and orchestra, which he premiered with the American Symphony Orchestra in 2001. Charles Strouse composed a new work titled Concerto America for Mr. Biegel, premiered with the Boston Pops in 2002. He also arranged the piano part for Billy Joel's Symphonic Fantasies in 2006, which he performed at the Eastern Music Festival, the Boris Brott Festival and with the Indianapolis, Harrisburg, New Hampshire and Brevard (FL) symphony orchestras. His recent editions for Schirmer's Performance Editions include Schumann's Scenes from Childhood and a new Sonatina Album with accompanying audio cds.

Mr. Biegel assembled the first global commissioning project featuring 18 orchestras performing Lowell Liebermann's Concerto no. 3 for Piano and Orchestra composed exclusively for him by Mr. Liebermann for the 2006-07-08 seasons. The World Premiere took place with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andreas Delfs on May 12-14, 2006. The European Premiere featured the Schleswig Holstein Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Gerard Oskamp in February 2007.

Until the age of 3, Mr. Biegel was unable to hear nor speak, until corrected by surgery. The 'reverse Beethoven' phenomenon can explain Mr. Biegel's life in music, having heard only vibrations in his formative years. Born a second-generation American, Mr. Biegel's roots are of Russian and Austrian heritage. A Russian cousin, pianist Herman Kosoff, emigrated to the United States in the early 20th century, and had been accepted into the class of the great Leopold Godowsky in Austria. Mr. Biegel's grandmother's cousin, Dr. Sonia Slatin, was a graduate of Columbia University who actively performed and also taught Schenkerian analysis at Brooklyn College.

American composer Richard Danielpour will compose a new work for Mr. Biegel, also for piano and orchestra, slated for the fall of 2009 with the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Carl St. Clair. In addition, American composer, Daniel Dorff, composed his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra for Mr. Biegel. The World Premiere was performed with the Etowah Youth Orchestra in Gadsden, Alabama, in May 2007, Mike Gagliardo conducting.

In addition to his concert activities, Mr. Biegel and his son, Craig, co-composed The World In Our Hands, published by the Hal Leonard Corporation. It reflects the events of 9-11 with a vision for hope and peace, and has been performed in Africa, Ireland, and throughout the U.S. The Hal Leonard Corporation has also published Christmas In A Minute, an SATB choral version of Chopin's Minute Waltz as well as his arrangement of "The Twelve Days of Christmas" for SATB divisi a cappella choir.

PianoDisc (the player piano system manufacturer) has released Mr. Biegel's recording, Rare Gems of the Golden Age, Best of David Foster, Best of Josh Groban, and releases Classical Carols in 2007. In addition, his solo transcription of the complete Four Seasons by Vivaldi with Grieg's Suite in the Antique Style (Holberg) is available for the Yamaha Corporation's downloadable PianoSoft product for disklavier.

Leonard Bernstein said of pianist Jeffrey Biegel: "He played fantastic Liszt. He is a splendid musician and a brilliant performer." Jeffrey Biegel was the unanimous recipient of the prestigious First Grand Prize in the 1989 Marguerite Long International Piano Competition and the First Prize in the 1985 William Kapell/University of Maryland International Piano Competition. He studied at the famed Juilliard School from 1979-85 with the legendary artist/teacher 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), and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He resides in New York with his wife, Sharon, and their sons Craig and Evan.