Well-known throughout Western Canada, pianist Allen Reiser has been guest soloist with the Symphony Orchestras of Calgary, Victoria and Montreal as well as with various other orchestras in Canada and in England. Recital engagements have taken him to nearly every major centre in Western Canada, and he has been a guest recitalist at the prestigious Gina Bachauer International Piano Festival in Salt Lake City. Allen Reiser's recitals are an eclectic mix of standard works for the keyboard sprinkled with unusual and less frequently performed works taken from the peripheries of the keyboard's repertoire. He has a particular affinity for, and interest in, Canadian piano music and the music of Franz Liszt. In the spring of 2001 he released his first CD - A Canadian Piano Album - which received a Prairie Music Award nomination in the category of Outstanding Classical Recording. His 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 German, simply titled "Allen Reiser", which focuses on the composers present on that CD.