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Pianist Andreas Klein to perform at Piedmont Oct. 13 [10-4-06] German-born pianist Andreas Klein is internationally acclaimed as a luminous and captivating artist and an introspective and poetic performer. The New York Times summed it up: "A fascinating artist with all the indispensable qualities: temperament, taste, touch, tone, the four T's of pianism." Klein will perform at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Oct. 13, at the Piedmont College Center for Worship and Music in Demorest. Admission at the door is $10 and $5 for seniors and students. Piedmont students, faculty and staff are admitted free. For the Piedmont concert, Klein will perform works by Mozart, Schubert, and Beethoven. To celebrate the 250th Mozart Anniversary in 2006, Klein and the Salzburg Chamber Soloists performed in 20 cities, including the Newman Center in Denver, where the concert was filmed for a later broadcast. Two seasons earlier, he captured audiences and received highest accolades for his crystalline Mozart interpretations as soloist with the world-renowned Lucerne Festival Strings. They appeared in 10 U.S. cities including the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Spivey Hall in Atlanta, the Wortham Center in Houston and Mechanics Hall near Boston. These concerts were broadcast on National Public Radio's "Performance Today" and by WGBH Boston. Klein has been honored by the Steinway & Sons piano company as a "Steinway Artist," and his career as a soloist has taken him to venues around the world. He has performed in London's Wigmore Hall, Berlin's Philharmonic Hall, New York's Carnegie Hall, and in Berlin, Rome, Milan, Bern, Leipzig, Dresden, and Damascus. He has toured Europe, Russia, the Middle East and throughout the U.S. In his native Germany, a "Musician's Portrait" was filmed for ORB TV in conjunction with a concert at the Neuhardenberg Castle in Berlin. He premiered and recorded the Mendelssohn Concerto in A minor with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony. His performances of Beethoven sonatas, Liszt's "Totentanz," and Frank's "Symphonic Variations" with the Halle Orchestra were broadcast nationwide by MDR Radio. Klein is heard frequently on National Public Radio's "Performance Today." To attract and introduce television audiences to classical music, he created a series of short works by composers such as Chopin, Debussy and Stravinsky called "Intermezzo with Andreas Klein," which was seen on PBS television stations nationwide. A graduate of The Juilliard School, Klein complemented his studies with the legendary Claudio Arrau and Nikita Magaloff. He has recorded for the Eroica and Apollo labels; and he has recorded works by Busoni, Ginastera and Stravinsky for the discography libraries of the Deutschland Sender and DS Kultur Radio, Berlin; and he can be heard with a variety of composers on PianoDisk CDs.
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