April 5: GRAMMY®-nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein Presented with Baroklyn by Gogue Performing Arts Center – Featuring the Music of J.S. Bach
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GRAMMY-nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
Presented with Baroklyn by Gogue Performing Arts Center
Featuring the Music of J.S. Bach
Third Performance as part of the Gogue Center’s 2023–24 Orchestra & Chamber Music Series
Friday, April 5, 2024, 7pm
Woltosz Theatre at Gogue Performing Arts Center
910 South College Street | Auburn, AL
“colorful and idiosyncratic” – The New York Times
Simone Dinnerstein: www.simonedinnerstein.com
Auburn, AL – On Friday, April 5, 2024, GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein returns to the Woltosz Theatre at the Gogue Performing Arts Center (910 South College Street) for her third performance as part of the Gogue Center’s 2023–24 Orchestra & Chamber Music Series. Dinnerstein, who is heralded for her distinctive musical voice and commitment to sharing classical music with everyone, will perform together with her ensemble Baroklyn, in a concert the Baroque-era music of J.S. Bach. The program will include Sonata in D Major for Cello and Piano; Keyboard Concerto in D Minor; Sonata in C Minor for Violin and Piano; and Keyboard Concerto in E Major. The evening’s program is subject to change.
Over the course of more than a decade, Dinnerstein has steadily gained recognition as both a skilled and imaginative performer of Bach’s music. Public appreciation for her performances of his music began with the exuberant and wide-reaching reception of her 2007 debut album featuring J.S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations. The recording reflected an aesthetic that was both profoundly idiosyncratic and deeply rooted in the score. Dinnerstein is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”
Since then, Dinnerstein has remained passionately dedicated to continually honing her artistry and musicianship across the extensive breadth of J.S. Bach’s body of work for solo piano and collaborative performances. The Washington Post has called Simone Dinnerstein “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity.” Baroklyn merges Dinnerstein’s appreciation for musical collaboration with musical leadership, as Dinnerstein both founded the ensemble and conducts the group from the piano.
Of bringing a collaborative performance with Baroklyn to the Gogue Performing Arts Center and illuminating the iconic music of J.S. Bach:
”I am so excited to bring the principal members of Baroklyn to Auburn and the Gogue Performing Arts Center. Every one of these musicians is a superlative musician, and they bring individual personality and life to every voice of Bach’s intricate counterpoint.”
Simone Dinnerstein has played with orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra to the London Symphony Orchestra and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai. She has performed in venues from Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center to the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center and the Sydney Opera House.
She has made thirteen albums, all of which topped the Billboard classical charts, with repertoire ranging from Couperin to Glass. From 2020 to 2022, she released a trilogy of albums recorded at her home in Brooklyn during the pandemic. A Character of Quiet (Orange Mountain Music, 2020), featuring the music of Philip Glass and Schubert, was described by NPR as, “music that speaks to a sense of the world slowing down,” and by The New Yorker as, “a reminder that quiet can contain multitudes.” Richard Danielpour’s An American Mosaic (Supertrain Records, 2021), surpassed two million streams on Apple Music and was nominated for a GRAMMY® Award in the category of Best Classical Instrumental Solo. The final installment in the trilogy, Undersong, was released in January 2022 on Orange Mountain Music.
In recent years, Dinnerstein has created projects that express her broad musical interests. She gave the world premiere of The Eye Is the First Circle at Montclair State University, the first multi-media production she conceived, created, and directed, which uses as source materials her father Simon Dinnerstein’s painting The Fulbright Triptych and Charles Ives’s Piano Sonata No. 2. She premiered Richard Danielpour’s An American Mosaic, a tribute to those affected by the pandemic, in a performance on multiple pianos throughout Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery. Following her recording Mozart in Havana, she brought the Havana Lyceum Orchestra from Cuba to the U.S. for the first time, performing eleven concerts. Philip Glass composed his Piano Concerto No. 3 for her, co-commissioned by twelve orchestras. Working with Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet, she premiered André Previn and Tom Stoppard’s Penelope at the Tanglewood, Ravinia and Aspen music festivals, and performed it at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, and presented by LA Opera. The Washington Post comments, “it is Dinnerstein’s unreserved identification with every note she plays that makes her performance so spellbinding.” In a world where music is everywhere, she hopes that it can still be transformative.
For more information, please visit www.simonedinnerstein.com.
For Calendar Editors:
Description: GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein –– who has gained recognition as both a proficient and imaginative performer of Bach’s music and is described by The New York Times as “an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” –– is presented in concert with Baroklyn. Dinnerstein is the Artistic Director of the ensemble, which she also conducts from the piano. The collaborative performance will feature an array of music by Baroque era icon, J.S. Bach, including two concertos and two sonatas.
Short description: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein, “an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (The New York Times) is presented in a performance with Baroklyn, the chamber ensemble Dinnerstein conducts from the piano and of which she is the Artistic Director. Together they will perform the music of J.S. Bach.
Concert details:
Who: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn
Presented by the Gogue Performing Arts Center
What: Music by J.S. Bach
When:Friday, April 5, 2024 at 7pm
Where: Woltosz Theatre at Gogue Performing Arts Center, 910 South College Street, Auburn, AL
Tickets and information: www.goguecenter.auburn.edu/simone-dinnerstein-with-baroklyn/