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Pianist Jeffrey Biegel Highlights Second Concert in Evanston Symphony Orchestra’s Great Composers Season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jan. 3, 2020
Evanston, Ill.—The second concert of the Evanston Symphony Orchestra’s 74th season—themed Great Composers—will feature virtuoso pianist Jeffrey Biegel, a faculty member at Brooklyn College of the City Universities of New York. He will perform the Concerto in F by George Gershwin in a program performed at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston conducted by Music Director Lawrence Eckerling on Sunday Feb. 2, 2019 at 2:30 PM.
The remainder of this all-American concert will include the ever-popular Grand Canyon Suite of Ferde Grofé, Blow It Up, Start Again by Jonathan Newman, and the Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first African-American composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Single tickets at $5-32 are available on-line at www.evanstonsymphony.org or by calling 847.864.8804. Free tickets for children aged 12 and under are only available by calling 847.864.8804.
Founded in 1945, the Evanston Symphony is the 2017 Illinois Council of Orchestra’s “Orchestra of the Year”. The ESO mission is to provide community members of all ages with convenient, affordable opportunities to perform and hear fine classical music from locally, nationally and internationally renowned artists.
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