JEREMY DENK, piano
Arens series - february 4, 2023
Washington Irving High School
UPDATE: Because of technical difficulties, all subscribers and ticket holders to the February 4 Jeremy Denk recital will receive the concert video via email on Monday, February 6 and it will remain available to watch for six days.
Program:
Bach: Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829 – 20
Schubert: Four Impromptus, Op. 142, D. 935 – 36
Coleridge-Taylor: They Will Not Lend Me a Child
Wiggins: The Battle of Manassas
Joplin/Chauvin: Heliotrope Bouquet
Rzewski: Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
Beethoven: Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111
BIO:
Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by The New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs”. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, he has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denk has appeared many times at Carnegie Hall and in recent years has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra. His memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine was published by Penguin Random House in March 2022. His most recent PSC appearance was the captivating concert of the Ives Sonatas for Violin and Piano with Stefan Jackiw, whom we will also hear this season as a member of the Junction Trio.
In the 2021-22 Season, Denk appeared with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Seattle Symphony performing John Adams’ “Must the Devil Have All The Good Tunes?”. He also returned to the San Francisco Symphony to perform Messiaen under Esa-Pekka Salonen, and toured internationally as soloist with Les Violons du Roy. Meanwhile, he continued a major multi-season focus on the music of Bach with performances of Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier at the Barbican Centre, Celebrity Series of Boston, Stanford Live, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the 92Y in New York City, at the Bath Festival in the UK, and the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, where Denk was artist-in-residence. He also returned to play/direct the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with whom he recently released a new Mozart Concerti album on Nonesuch Records. The disc was praised by the Guardian for its “questing intelligence and energy”.