Add to his credits a big score

THE Piano Man has written a Piano Concerto. Sort of. Billy Joel, whose album “Piano Man” made him a star in 1974, now has a Concerto for Piano and Orchestra to his name. The work is scheduled to premiere June 24 at the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, N.C.

The concerto is based on the pop icon’s 2001 album, “Fantasies & Delusions,” which topped Billboard’s classical album chart for 18 weeks. But it turns out that two other hands had a part in it. Jeffrey Biegel, the pianist who will be featured in the premiere, arranged his music. And Phillip Keveren, who scored some of Joel’s songs for Hal Leonard Publishing, did the orchestrations.

Still, “this is all Joel’s own original material, his melodies and harmonies,” Biegel says. “I just used them as a steppingstone for a larger pianistic vehicle, adding a lot more notes and making the part more virtuosic. This is a side of him -- his classical side -- that a lot of people are not well aware of.”

The work lasts about 30 minutes and has four movements: “Fantasy (Film Noir),” “Sorbetto,” “Reverie (Villa D’Este)” and “Nunley’s Carousel Waltz.” The last evokes a long-gone Long Island landmark, Nunley’s Amusement Park, near Joel’s childhood home.

Stuart Malina, who won a Tony Award for his work on Joel’s Broadway hit, “Movin’ Out” (choreography by Twyla Tharp), will conduct the first performance.

After that, says Biegel, repeats are scheduled in Hamilton, Canada; Harrisburg, Pa.; and Melbourne, Fla. But there are no recordings plans yet, he says.

Chris Pasles