Musicians - Guest Artist Biographies

JON HURTY
Guest Conductor

Jon Hurty is professor of music and director of choral activities at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he directs the Augustana Choir, the Augustana Chamber Singers, and is co-chair of the music department. He also directs the Adult Choir at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa, is the artistic director of Quad City Choral Arts, and serves as the conductor of the Handel Oratorio Society at Augustana. Before coming to Rock Island he was Director of Choral Activities at Concordia University in Irvine, California.

He completed his undergraduate degree in vocal performance at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, his master’s degree in choral conducting from California State University, Northridge, and his doctorate in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois. He has studied conducting with John Alexander, Don Moses, Chet Alwes and Ann Howard Jones. He has sung and studied under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Groves, Roger Wagner, and Robert Shaw.

Active as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States, Dr. Hurty has served in this capacity for the American Choral Directors Association, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Music Educators Association, and the Choral Conductors Guild. Most recently, he conducted the Illinois All-State Honors Choir in January of 2009. He has conducted choirs in concerts throughout the United States as well as Sweden, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, Austria, Japan, and Korea.

MARY WILSON
Soprano

Soprano Mary Wilson is acknowledged as one of today’s most exciting young artists. Cultivating a wide-ranging career singing chamber music, oratorio and operatic repertoire, her “bright soprano seems to know no terrors, wrapping itself seductively around every phrase.” (Dallas Morning News) She continues to receive critical acclaim from coast to coast: “The discovery was Mary Wilson, a fine lyric soprano with focused, lustrous tone and sterling enunciation,” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) “Her fast passages were flawless in intonation and seemingly easy in execution (the mark of a first-rate technique), and “Her feel for the sound and meaning of words was impeccable; her mastery of Handel’s grand leaps and wide-ranging runs was total.” (San Francisco Classical Voice)

Ms. Wilson begins the 2009–10 in a return engagement with Boston Baroque where she will sing the role of Oriana in Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula. She then joins the Dayton Philharmonic for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Kansas City Symphony for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and the Buffalo Philharmonic for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. She’ll sing Messiah with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and with the Cleveland Orchestra, Carmina Burana and Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the Quad City Symphony, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart’s Requiem with the Florida Bach Festival, Carmina Burana with the Boulder Philharmonic, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Boston Baroque, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Cedar Rapids Symphony. She will sing a distinguished alumni recital at St. Olaf College, and will join Musica Angelica to sing Bach’s St. John Passion. She finishes out the season in a concert of Handel and Vivaldi with the American Bach Soloists.

She recently created the role of Grand Duchess Christina in the world premiere performances of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei in both Chicago and New York, where Opera News lauded Ms. Wilson’s talent, saying “surely Glass intends for all of his singers to reflect the vocal lines as naturally as she does.” Ms. Wilson created the role of the Controller in the North American premiere performances of Dove’s Flight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She sang her first Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with Dayton Opera and the Goddess Diana in Rameau’s Hippolytus and Aricia at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.

Ms. Wilson was a 1999 National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, awarded the Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival in California, and is the recipient of a career grant from Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ prestigious Richard Gaddes Fund for Opera Singers. She was named a 2004 “Emerging Artist” by Symphony Magazine, the publication’s first-ever compilation of up-and-coming classical soloists. Ms. Wilson holds performance degrees from St. Olaf College and Washington University in St. Louis and currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee.

ANDREW GARLAND
Baritone

American baritone Andrew Garland has been saluted by The New York Times as having a “distinctly American presence” with a “big voice” who is “an able and comfortable performer, and a sincere one,” and by Opera News as having “coloratura [which] bordered on the phenomenal as he dashed through the music’s intricacies with his warm baritone, offering plenty of elegance and glamour in his smooth acting.”

The baritone begins the 2009–10 season with a return engagement to Boston Lyric Opera as Dancairo in Carmen. On the concert stage he’ll sing Carmina Burana with the Quad City Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Plymouth Philharmonic. A highlight of the previous season was his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut where he premiered several works by living American composers. Opera News Online said of his performance that he “has a lean, fine-grained, vibrant baritone, presents himself with a tautly focused concentration….his natural twinkle and comic timing were on display... [he was] utterly engaging.” In addition to the recital, he performed Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Samson with the Dartmouth Handel Society, and Meyerbeer’s Les Hugenots with the Bard Festival. On the opera stage, he portrayed Hermann in Les contes d’Hoffmann and The Gamekeeper in Rusalka both with Boston Lyric Opera, as well as Dandini in La Cenerentola with the Fort Worth Opera and Opera Company of North Carolina, where he displayed “an attractive baritone and an adroit sense of timing.” (The News and Observer). In addition, he took home the third prize in the 2009 Montreal International Music Competition, and saw the release of his disc of songs by Lee Hoiby called A Pocket of Time (Naxos).

Together with pianist Donna Loewy, Mr. Garland is working with some of today’s leading classical songwriters to program lively and inventive concerts that have audiences looking at the song recital anew. In previous seasons, their program of music by living American composers has taken them to New York City, Washington, DC, Seattle, Cincinnati, Fullerton, CA, Santa Monica, and Huntsville, among other cities. On Mr. Garland’s presentation of Lee Hoiby’s “I Was There,” the composer commented: “I have performed these same songs with several professional baritones of stature, and none has brought more depth of musical understanding than did Andrew Garland. Quite apart from the special beauty of his voice is his distinctive feeling for the musical line. He pulls the listener irresistibly into the music. In my judgment, he is a rare talent, and I expect him to enjoy an important career.”

Mr. Garland is the winner of the Washington International Music Competition, American Traditions Competition, the William C. Byrd Competition, the Opera Columbus Competition, NATS New England competition and was a prize winner in the Jose Itrubi and Montreal International Music Competitions and Gerda Lissner and Palm Beach Opera competitions. Mr. Garland is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers and coaches have included William McGraw, Paulina Stark, John Humphrey, Oren Brown, Elizabeth Mannion, Martin Katz, Donna Loewy, Kenneth Griffiths and Terry Lusk.

ALFRED E. STURGIS
Countertenor

Alfred E. Sturgis was appointed Music Director of the North Carolina Master Chorale in 1993. Under his skilled artistic leadership the NC Master Chorale has made several appearances at state and regional conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association, recorded three Christmas CDs as well as a broadcast for UNC-TV, and been involved in numerous successful collaborations with the Carolina Ballet and the North Carolina Symphony. In addition to his work with the Chorale, Sturgis serves as Music Director of the Carolina Ballet, Tar River Orchestra, and Appalachian Institution.

Sturgis has served as Guest Conductor for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Carolina Chamber Orchestra, Raleigh Civic Symphony, National Opera Company, Capital Opera, Long Leaf Opera, and North Carolina Theatre. He has conducted orchestral and opera performances overseas in France, Bulgaria, and China, and recently served as a clinician for the inaugural London International Choral Festival. Early in his career he performed a number of roles in musical theatre, opera, and oratorio, in addition to touring and recording in Southern France with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Sturgis still performs occasionally as a counter tenor or baritone.

In recognition of his dynamic leadership of the NC Master Chorale, Sturgis was awarded the 1996 Raleigh Medal of Arts. Noted for his energetic, positive teaching style, Sturgis is in great demand as a conductor / clinician for Music Education and Church Music workshops and festivals including All-State and Honors Choirs. Between the numerous festivals, his 13 years as Director of Choral Music at North Carolina State University, and 7 years as a church music director he has taught thousands of students as well as adults. Dr. Sturgis holds degrees from the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois in Voice Performance, Music Education, and Conducting.

HANDEL ORATORIO SOCIETY

This year marks the 129th anniversary of the Handel Oratorio Society, a campus and community chorus founded in 1881 by Augustana College president Olof Olsson and originally dedicated to the performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Dr. Olsson’s vision of Messiah performances on the Illinois prairie had been sparked by a visit to England in 1880 during which he attended a performance of Messiah involving over six hundred performers. Fired by inspiration, he returned to Rock Island and organized a campus and community chorus that he named the Handel Oratorio Society. With its first performance of Messiah in April, 1881, the Society began a chain of Messiah performances that continues today. The Society is currently led by Dr. Jon Hurty, director of choral activities at Augustana College. In addition to its performances of Messiah, the Society has collaborated in recent years with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in the presentation of large-scale choral/orchestral works.

QUAD CITY CHORAL ARTS

Quad City Choral Arts was founded by Artistic Director Jon Hurty to provide the Quad City region with high quality choral music. The group performs a wide variety of literature from chorale chamber music to major choral works with orchestra. Recent concerts have included collaboration with the Quad City Symphony in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Randall Thompson’s Alleluia as well as Bach’s Magnificat with the Augustana Symphony Orchestra. Each December, Quad City Choral Arts joins the Handel Oratorio Society in performances of Handel’s Messiah. Many members of the ensemble are music teachers or professional singers, while others represent a wide variety of professions in the Quad City region.

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 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.

In 1987, Norman Krieger made headlines by being named the Gold Medal Winner of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition. Earlier, in 1984, he was selected to join the distinguished roster of Affiliate Artists, where he participated in the Xerox Pianists Program from 1984 to 1986. Mr. Krieger is also the recipient of the Paderewski Foundation Award, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, the Victor Herbert Memorial Prize, the Buffalo Philharmonic Young Artists Competition Prize and the Saint Louis Symphony Prize.

Norman Krieger's training began in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Esther Lipton. At the age of 15, he became a full scholarship student of Adele Marcus at the famed Juilliard School, from which he received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London, and was awarded an Artists Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman.

A champion of contemporary music, Norman Krieger features the music of John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, John Corigliano, Daniel Brewbaker, Judith St. Croix, Lukas Foss and Lowell Liebermann among his active repertoire.

Norman Krieger's recordings include four albums available on the Artisie 4 label: "Norman Krieger Piano Recital," with music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin; "American Piano Concertos," featuring works by MacDowell and David Wiley with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Wiley; "Raising the Roof," an album of chamber music by Haydn, Bloch, Bruch and Martinu; "The Prince Albert Chamber Music Festival," including works by Barber, Beethoven, Bizet, Chopin, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. Other releases include the two Brahms concerti with the Orchestre Symphonique Francais on the Beaufour label, an all-Gershwin album on Stradivari Classics and "Summerdays," music of Barber, Berg, Bernstein, Gershwin, Glazunov, Lehar and Mozart, from the Musical Masterworks Festival at Old Lyme, featuring Mr. Krieger and additional artists on Well-Tempered.

Norman Krieger is the founding Artistic Director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii. In the spring of 1997, he was appointed Associate Professor of the distinguished faculty of the University of Southern California.


	Guest Artist Bios JON HURTY Guest Conductor Jon Hurty is professor of music and director of choral activities at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, where he directs the Augustana Choir, the Augustana Chamber Singers, and is co-chair of the music department. He also directs the Adult Choir at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Davenport, Iowa, is the artistic director of Quad City Choral Arts, and serves as the conductor of the Handel Oratorio Society at Augustana. Before coming to Rock Island he was Director of Choral Activities at Concordia University in Irvine, California. He completed his undergraduate degree in vocal performance at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas, his master’s degree in choral conducting from California State University, Northridge, and his doctorate in choral conducting and literature from the University of Illinois. He has studied conducting with John Alexander, Don Moses, Chet Alwes and Ann Howard Jones. He has sung and studied under conductors Christopher Hogwood, Sir Charles Groves, Roger Wagner, and Robert Shaw. Active as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States, Dr. Hurty has served in this capacity for the American Choral Directors Association, the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Music Educators Association, and the Choral Conductors Guild. Most recently, he conducted the Illinois All-State Honors Choir in January of 2009. He has conducted choirs in concerts throughout the United States as well as Sweden, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, Austria, Japan, and Korea. MARY WILSON Soprano Soprano Mary Wilson is acknowledged as one of today’s most exciting young artists. Cultivating a wide-ranging career singing chamber music, oratorio and operatic repertoire, her “bright soprano seems to know no terrors, wrapping itself seductively around every phrase.” (Dallas Morning News) She continues to receive critical acclaim from coast to coast: “The discovery was Mary Wilson, a fine lyric soprano with focused, lustrous tone and sterling enunciation,” (The Philadelphia Inquirer) “Her fast passages were flawless in intonation and seemingly easy in execution (the mark of a first-rate technique), and “Her feel for the sound and meaning of words was impeccable; her mastery of Handel’s grand leaps and wide-ranging runs was total.” (San Francisco Classical Voice) Ms. Wilson begins the 2009–10 in a return engagement with Boston Baroque where she will sing the role of Oriana in Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula. She then joins the Dayton Philharmonic for performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Kansas City Symphony for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and the Buffalo Philharmonic for Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. She’ll sing Messiah with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and with the Cleveland Orchestra, Carmina Burana and Mozart’s Exultate Jubilate with the Quad City Symphony, Bach’s B Minor Mass and Mozart’s Requiem with the Florida Bach Festival, Carmina Burana with the Boulder Philharmonic, Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 with Boston Baroque, and Mozart’s Requiem with the Cedar Rapids Symphony. She will sing a distinguished alumni recital at St. Olaf College, and will join Musica Angelica to sing Bach’s St. John Passion. She finishes out the season in a concert of Handel and Vivaldi with the American Bach Soloists. She recently created the role of Grand Duchess Christina in the world premiere performances of Philip Glass’ Galileo Galilei in both Chicago and New York, where Opera News lauded Ms. Wilson’s talent, saying “surely Glass intends for all of his singers to reflect the vocal lines as naturally as she does.” Ms. Wilson created the role of the Controller in the North American premiere performances of Dove’s Flight at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. She sang her first Queen of the Night in Die Zauberflöte with Dayton Opera and the Goddess Diana in Rameau’s Hippolytus and Aricia at Opera Theatre of St. Louis. Ms. Wilson was a 1999 National Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, awarded the Adams Fellowship at the Carmel Bach Festival in California, and is the recipient of a career grant from Opera Theatre of St. Louis’ prestigious Richard Gaddes Fund for Opera Singers. She was named a 2004 “Emerging Artist” by Symphony Magazine, the publication’s first-ever compilation of up-and-coming classical soloists. Ms. Wilson holds performance degrees from St. Olaf College and Washington University in St. Louis and currently resides in Memphis, Tennessee. ANDREW GARLAND Baritone American baritone Andrew Garland has been saluted by The New York Times as having a “distinctly American presence” with a “big voice” who is “an able and comfortable performer, and a sincere one,” and by Opera News as having “coloratura [which] bordered on the phenomenal as he dashed through the music’s intricacies with his warm baritone, offering plenty of elegance and glamour in his smooth acting.” The baritone begins the 2009–10 season with a return engagement to Boston Lyric Opera as Dancairo in Carmen. On the concert stage he’ll sing Carmina Burana with the Quad City Symphony and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with the Plymouth Philharmonic. A highlight of the previous season was his Carnegie Hall solo recital debut where he premiered several works by living American composers. Opera News Online said of his performance that he “has a lean, fine-grained, vibrant baritone, presents himself with a tautly focused concentration….his natural twinkle and comic timing were on display... [he was] utterly engaging.” In addition to the recital, he performed Handel’s Messiah with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Handel’s Samson with the Dartmouth Handel Society, and Meyerbeer’s Les Hugenots with the Bard Festival. On the opera stage, he portrayed Hermann in Les contes d’Hoffmann and The Gamekeeper in Rusalka both with Boston Lyric Opera, as well as Dandini in La Cenerentola with the Fort Worth Opera and Opera Company of North Carolina, where he displayed “an attractive baritone and an adroit sense of timing.” (The News and Observer). In addition, he took home the third prize in the 2009 Montreal International Music Competition, and saw the release of his disc of songs by Lee Hoiby called A Pocket of Time (Naxos). Together with pianist Donna Loewy, Mr. Garland is working with some of today’s leading classical songwriters to program lively and inventive concerts that have audiences looking at the song recital anew. In previous seasons, their program of music by living American composers has taken them to New York City, Washington, DC, Seattle, Cincinnati, Fullerton, CA, Santa Monica, and Huntsville, among other cities. On Mr. Garland’s presentation of Lee Hoiby’s “I Was There,” the composer commented: “I have performed these same songs with several professional baritones of stature, and none has brought more depth of musical understanding than did Andrew Garland. Quite apart from the special beauty of his voice is his distinctive feeling for the musical line. He pulls the listener irresistibly into the music. In my judgment, he is a rare talent, and I expect him to enjoy an important career.” Mr. Garland is the winner of the Washington International Music Competition, American Traditions Competition, the William C. Byrd Competition, the Opera Columbus Competition, NATS New England competition and was a prize winner in the Jose Itrubi and Montreal International Music Competitions and Gerda Lissner and Palm Beach Opera competitions. Mr. Garland is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. His teachers and coaches have included William McGraw, Paulina Stark, John Humphrey, Oren Brown, Elizabeth Mannion, Martin Katz, Donna Loewy, Kenneth Griffiths and Terry Lusk. ALFRED E. STURGIS Countertenor Alfred E. Sturgis was appointed Music Director of the North Carolina Master Chorale in 1993. Under his skilled artistic leadership the NC Master Chorale has made several appearances at state and regional conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association, recorded three Christmas CDs as well as a broadcast for UNC-TV, and been involved in numerous successful collaborations with the Carolina Ballet and the North Carolina Symphony. In addition to his work with the Chorale, Sturgis serves as Music Director of the Carolina Ballet, Tar River Orchestra, and Appalachian Institution. Sturgis has served as Guest Conductor for the New York City Ballet at Lincoln Center, North Carolina Symphony, Winston-Salem Symphony, Carolina Chamber Orchestra, Raleigh Civic Symphony, National Opera Company, Capital Opera, Long Leaf Opera, and North Carolina Theatre. He has conducted orchestral and opera performances overseas in France, Bulgaria, and China, and recently served as a clinician for the inaugural London International Choral Festival. Early in his career he performed a number of roles in musical theatre, opera, and oratorio, in addition to touring and recording in Southern France with the Robert Shaw Festival Singers. Sturgis still performs occasionally as a counter tenor or baritone. In recognition of his dynamic leadership of the NC Master Chorale, Sturgis was awarded the 1996 Raleigh Medal of Arts. Noted for his energetic, positive teaching style, Sturgis is in great demand as a conductor / clinician for Music Education and Church Music workshops and festivals including All-State and Honors Choirs. Between the numerous festivals, his 13 years as Director of Choral Music at North Carolina State University, and 7 years as a church music director he has taught thousands of students as well as adults. Dr. Sturgis holds degrees from the University of South Florida and the University of Illinois in Voice Performance, Music Education, and Conducting. HANDEL ORATORIO SOCIETY This year marks the 129th anniversary of the Handel Oratorio Society, a campus and community chorus founded in 1881 by Augustana College president Olof Olsson and originally dedicated to the performance of George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Dr. Olsson’s vision of Messiah performances on the Illinois prairie had been sparked by a visit to England in 1880 during which he attended a performance of Messiah involving over six hundred performers. Fired by inspiration, he returned to Rock Island and organized a campus and community chorus that he named the Handel Oratorio Society. With its first performance of Messiah in April, 1881, the Society began a chain of Messiah performances that continues today. The Society is currently led by Dr. Jon Hurty, director of choral activities at Augustana College. In addition to its performances of Messiah, the Society has collaborated in recent years with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra in the presentation of large-scale choral/orchestral works. QUAD CITY CHORAL ARTS Quad City Choral Arts was founded by Artistic Director Jon Hurty to provide the Quad City region with high quality choral music. The group performs a wide variety of literature from chorale chamber music to major choral works with orchestra. Recent concerts have included collaboration with the Quad City Symphony in performances of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Randall Thompson’s Alleluia as well as Bach’s Magnificat with the Augustana Symphony Orchestra. Each December, Quad City Choral Arts joins the Handel Oratorio Society in performances of Handel’s Messiah. Many members of the ensemble are music teachers or professional singers, while others represent a wide variety of professions in the Quad City region. 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 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. In 1987, Norman Krieger made headlines by being named the Gold Medal Winner of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition. Earlier, in 1984, he was selected to join the distinguished roster of Affiliate Artists, where he participated in the Xerox Pianists Program from 1984 to 1986. Mr. Krieger is also the recipient of the Paderewski Foundation Award, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, the Victor Herbert Memorial Prize, the Buffalo Philharmonic Young Artists Competition Prize and the Saint Louis Symphony Prize. Norman Krieger's training began in Los Angeles under the tutelage of Esther Lipton. At the age of 15, he became a full scholarship student of Adele Marcus at the famed Juilliard School, from which he received both Bachelor's and Master's degrees. Subsequently, he studied with Alfred Brendel and Maria Curcio in London, and was awarded an Artists Diploma from the New England Conservatory, where he worked with Russell Sherman. A champion of contemporary music, Norman Krieger features the music of John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, John Corigliano, Daniel Brewbaker, Judith St. Croix, Lukas Foss and Lowell Liebermann among his active repertoire. Norman Krieger's recordings include four albums available on the Artisie 4 label: "Norman Krieger Piano Recital," with music by Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin; "American Piano Concertos," featuring works by MacDowell and David Wiley with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Mr. Wiley; "Raising the Roof," an album of chamber music by Haydn, Bloch, Bruch and Martinu; "The Prince Albert Chamber Music Festival," including works by Barber, Beethoven, Bizet, Chopin, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. Other releases include the two Brahms concerti with the Orchestre Symphonique Francais on the Beaufour label, an all-Gershwin album on Stradivari Classics and "Summerdays," music of Barber, Berg, Bernstein, Gershwin, Glazunov, Lehar and Mozart, from the Musical Masterworks Festival at Old Lyme, featuring Mr. Krieger and additional artists on Well-Tempered. Norman Krieger is the founding Artistic Director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii. In the spring of 1997, he was appointed Associate Professor of the distinguished faculty of the University of Southern California.

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