Quartet, among others. Ricci and Frey performed New York City's official concert commemorating the tricentennial anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, given in a sold-out Alice Tully Hall on the actual day of the composer's 300th birthday. He has performed duo concerts in Europe with American writer and A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor. In 2001, Frey gave live performances for the BBC (with the legendary soprano Marta Eggerth) when the two artists gave recitals together in American and Europe which included sold-out performances in London's Wigmore Hall and in New York at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. He also performed an all-Verdi program for RAI in Italy. Alexander Frey was the first organist to perform an entire symphony of Gustav Mahler as a solo work for organ. This historic achievement resulted in Frey's live performance of the organ transcription Mahler's Symphony #5 (transcribed by Jerry Kinsella) being cited as one of seven performances listed as "the most important organ-related events of the 20th century" by The American Organist magazine. Alexander Frey was the first pianist to perform the complete piano works of Leonard Bernstein in public, and he has given the world premieres of Bernstein's Five Anniversaries, Thirteen Anniversaries and Valse Gaea. He has performed the cycle throughout Europe, Asia and the United States. In 2012, Frey performed 4 sold-out organ recitals in one weekend at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. The concerts consisted of music of France as part of the celebration of the re-opening of the museum's newly renovated French galleries. In Barrie Gavin's documentary film, Erich Wolfgang Korngold-Adventures of Wunderkind: A Portrait and Concert, Frey performs several solo keyboard works and the first public hearing of Korngold's second symphony, which exists only in a manuscript piano score. Most of the background piano music in the film is also taken from Frey's performances of the composer's music. Recording awards A highly honored recording artist, Alexander Frey has received the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik (formerly known as the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, one of Germany's highest recording honors), ECHO Klassik Prize, Choice of the French Media Critics, Best Recording of the Year (Fi Magazine), Best Original Cast Recording of the Year-2005 (Borders Music), Favorite Record of the Year-2005 (ArkivMusic), the Bronze World Medal of the New York Festival, BBC Critics Choice, Record of the Month (MusicWeb, UK), Best Instrumental CD of the Month (Galaxie