The Adelphi University Performing Arts Center welcomes back pianist Andreas Klein for his long-awaited appearance as concerto soloist with the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra on Friday, March 13, at 8 p.m.
Klein, who has distinguished himself as a performer with a command of a wide range of tonal colors and imaginative interpretations, will perform an all-Beethoven program on the Westermann Stage of the Concert Hall, One South Avenue, Garden City.
The show will be conducted by Grammy-nominated Christopher Lyndon-Gee, Adelphi’s symphony music director.
“Mr. Klein’s international reputation of authority and poetry in the great classics is perfectly suited to Beethoven’s ‘Fourth Piano Concerto,’ whose uniquely contemplative slow movement is one of Beethoven’s most spiritually transcendent moments,” Lyndon-Gee stated.
Currently a resident of Huntington, Klein’s career as orchestra soloist and recitalist has taken him to some of the world’s most prestigious venues – from London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonic Hall, New York’s Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall to Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center.
He has gained critical acclaim for his performances in major cities, including Berlin, Rome, Milan, Bern, Leipzig, Dresden, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Cleveland and Mexico City.
A five-time Grammy-nominee, Cannes Classical Award nominee, recipient of more than 30 Rosettes from the ‘Penguin Guide to Compact Discs’ and winner of the Onassis Prize and Australian National Critics ‘Best Conductor’ Award, Lyndon-Gee has specially devised this program to bring together three of Beethoven’s greatest works all heard for the first time in the same concert in 1807.
Completing the program are the “Coriolan Overture,” dedicated to poet Heinrich von Collin’s radical reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus;” while Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony completes the evening’s program.
Tickets are currently on sale and are priced at $20, with discounts available to seniors, students and alumni. For more information about all events at AUPAC and to purchase tickets, visit aupac.adelphi.edu.
Information is available at The Lucia and Steven N. Fischer Box Office at (516) 877-4000 or boxoffice@adelphi.edu. Regular box office hours are Tuesday through Friday from 1 to 6 p.m. The box office is also open two hours before most scheduled performances.
