“REFLECTION AND REMEMBRANCE”
Remembrance Day is a time for inward contemplation, profound gratitude, and hope. This concert uses the music of Mozart, Schubert and Chopin to provide a backdrop of sound for the listener to reflect and remember. – A.R.
“It was clear from his opening flourish in Rachmaninoff’s First Piano Concerto that he is a player not only of dynamic brilliance, but of mellow touch…” (London – England)
Allen Reiser has performed with various orchestras in England and Canada. Recital and adjudicating engagements have taken him to nearly every major centre in Western Canada. He is a pianist of diverse musical interests, with a particular interest in Canadian piano music and the music of Franz Liszt.
Allen Reiser’s first released CD, “A Canadian Piano Album”, was nominated for a 2001 Prairie Music Award in the category of Outstanding Classical Recording. A second CD, “Sonatinas and Little Sonatas”, was released in June of 2009; “…. a wonderful collection of intermediate-level sonatas and sonatinas”. (Clavier Jan/Feb 2010) His Sonatina album was the basis for a book published in Germany, simply titled “Allen Reiser”, which focuses on the composers present on that CD.
Allen Reiser is a National Gold Medalist of the Royal Conservatory of Music, at the ARCT Diploma Level. He is active throughout Western Canada as a performer, adjudicator and master class clinician, and has presented workshops and recitals for local, provincial and national Registered Music Teachers’ Associations. He has been honoured by Calgary’s Mount Royal University with a Distinguished Faculty/Teaching Award (1992), and by the Royal Conservatory of Music with a Teacher of Distinction Award (2020). His two major teaching positions have been at the Victoria Conservatory of Music, and at Calgary’s Mount Royal University, and he has been guest piano instructor at summer schools in Cranbrook, Camrose, Sundre and Victoria. Allen Reiser’s former instructors include Peter Katin (England) and Dr. Robin Wood (Canada). He currently operates a private piano studio in Signal Hill, Calgary.