Simone Dinnerstein
July 31: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein makes her recital debut Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
June 03, 2010
Saturday, July 31, 2010 at 5pm
St. Francis Auditorium | New Mexico Museum of Art
107 West Palace Avenue | Santa Fe, NM
Recital Program:
Bach’s English Suite No. 3 in G minor
& French Suite No. 5 in G Major
Schubert’s Impromptus in Eb Major & Ab Major, Op 90
Tickets: $33 – $26 at santafechambermusic.com
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“Simone Dinnerstein is the sort of pianist who should play by candlelight . . . a phenomenon in the world of classical music.”
– The Washington Post
“An utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation”
– The New York Times
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Santa Fe, NM—At 5pm on Saturday, July 31, 2010, celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to New Mexico to make her recital debut at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The performance takes place in the intimate and historic St. Francis Auditorium at the New Mexico Museum of Art (107 West Palace Avenue) and includes Bach’s English Suite No 3 in G minor and French Suite No. 5 in G Major and Schubert’s Impromptus in Eb Major and Ab Major, Op 90. Known for her intelligent but emotive performances, Ms. Dinnerstein has been called “the pianists’ pianist of Generation X” by The New Yorker, and “a throwback to such high priestesses of music as Wanda Landowska and Myra Hess,” by Slate magazine. Ms. Dinnerstein has recently signed an exclusive recording agreement with Sony Classical. Her first album, to be released this fall, will be an all-Bach disc.
Since it was founded in 1972, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival has become one of the world’s preeminent music festivals, guided by a visionary spirit and dedicated to artistic excellence and innovation. Contributing to its magic is the Festival’s unique Santa Fe setting, nestled amid the timeless splendors of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has fast been gaining international attention since making a triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in 2005, performing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Recent and upcoming performances include Ms. Dinnerstein's recital debuts at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen and Ravinia festivals, in Cologne, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Vilnius, Bremen, Rome, and Lisbon, and at the Stuttgart Bach Festival; as well as debut performances with the Dresden Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble, the Tokyo Symphony, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, and the Minnesota Orchestra. Last year she performed on the People's Symphony series at Town Hall and on Lincoln Center's Great Performers series in New York, and this year she performed her third sold-out recital at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In July 2009, she made her debut with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, playing Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2.
In August 2007, Ms. Dinnerstein released her debut solo CD on Telarc, a recording of the Goldberg Variations which earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart during its first week of sales. The disc appeared on “Best of 2007” lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, several radio stations, iTunes “Editor's Choice Best Classical,” Amazon.com Best CDs of 2007, and Barnes & Noble's Top 5 Debut CDs of 2007. In September 2008, the recording received the prestigious Diapason d'Or Award in France.
In November 2007, Ms. Dinnerstein made her recital debut at the Berlin Philharmonie, performing Bach's French Suite No. 5, Philip Lasser's Variations on a Bach Chorale, and Beethoven's Sonata No. 32, Op. 111. The concert was recorded live, and was released by Telarc in August 2008. Of the disc, which also ranked No. 1 on the Billboard Chart during its first week of sales, Gramophone reported, “this second CD of a Berlin recital provides ample evidence of gifts above and beyond the ordinary.”
Over the past few years, Ms. Dinnerstein has been featured in Gramophone, BBC Music Magazine, Classic FM Magazine, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, “O” The Oprah Magazine, Time.com, Slate.com, The Sunday (London) Times Magazine, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, The Guardian, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, among others, and has appeared on radio programs including BBC Radio 3's In Tune, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, NPR's Morning Edition, Public Radio International's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, American Public Media's Performance Today, Minnesota Public Radio, XM Radio's Classical Confidential, as part of the news on SIRIUS Satellite Radio's The Howard Stern Show, and on national television in Germany.
Ms. Dinnerstein played concerts throughout the United States for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. Amongst the places she has played are nursing homes, schools and community centers. Most notably, Ms. Dinnerstein gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles Correctional Center. She also performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, in a concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to coincide with her BSO debut.
In addition, Ms. Dinnerstein has founded P.S. 321 Neighborhood Concerts, an evening concert series at the Brooklyn public elementary school that her son attends and where her husband teaches fifth grade. The concerts, which features musicians Ms. Dinnerstein has admired and collaborated with during her career, is open to the public and raises funds for the school's Parent Teacher Association. The musicians performing donate their time and talent to the program.
Ms. Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. She was a winner of the Astral Artist National Auditions, and has twice received the Classical Recording Foundation Award. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio, the distinguished pupil of Artur Schnabel. Simone Dinnerstein (pronounced See-MOHN-uh DIN-ner-steen) lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband and son. She is managed by Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists.
For more information, visit www.simonedinnerstein.com.
