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Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein on Bach: 'Listen to what the music is telling you'
Philip Glass - Etude #6 @WQXR's 85th Anniversary concert.
Simone Dinnerstein: NPR Tiny Desk Concert
Simone Dinnerstein - An Honest Guide to Bach's Inventions: Bachpacking to School
Bach-Packing To School with Simone Dinnerstein (Woodburn Elementary)
Live from the WRTI 90.1 Performance Studio: Simone Dinnerstein plays Glass & Bach
Simone Dinnerstein ArtsRock Promo with Robin Quivers
1 Ich ruf zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, BWV 639: Busoni  
2 Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056:1  
3 Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056: II  
4 Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056: III  
5 Es ist gewisslich an der Zeit, BWV 307, arr. Kempf  
6 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: I  
7 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: II  
8 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: III  
9 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: IV  
10 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: V  
11 English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808: VI  
12 Keyboard Concerto No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052: I  
13 Keyboard Concerto No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052: II  
14 Keyboard Concerto No.1 in D minor, BWV 1052: III  
15 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, BWV 147, arr. Hess  
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"An utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation..." The New York Times

Simone Dinnerstein's first album on Sony Classical Bach: A Strange Beauty sees the pianist return to Bach, this time combining three transcriptions of his Chorale Preludes with one of his English Suites and two of his Keyboard Concerti. Simone Dinnerstein's special affinity to the music of Bach was cemented when her self-funded recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations took the US Billboard charts by storm on its release in 2007. The album drew intense critical acclaim and Dinnerstein's unique playing garnered such impressive reviews as that from The New York Times "An utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation."

  • Simone Dinnerstein set as soloist In Philip Glass's 'TIROL' Concerto with The Brooklyn Orchestra / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: November 15, 2023 12:00 AM
    Concert features the New York premiere of Glass's Symphony No. 14, conducted by Olivier Glissant.BroadwayWorld's A.A. Cristi writes….GRAMMY-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who is described by The Washington Post as, “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity,” will be the featured soloist in Philip Glass's “Tirol” Piano Concerto (Piano Concerto No. 1) in a performance with the B...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein to perform with Gonzaga Symphony / Coeur d'Alene POST FALLS PRESS
    Posted At: September 22, 2023 12:00 AM
    Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The New York-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she independently raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboar...
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  • Ahead of 'Maverick Concerts' and 'New Marlborough' dates, Simone Dinnerstein chats with WAMC's 'The Roundtable'
    Posted At: August 24, 2023 12:00 AM
    Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The New York-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she independently raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical C...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein will dive into Brahms to open 2023 Williamsburg Symphony season / WYDAILY
    Posted At: August 11, 2023 12:00 AM
    Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The New York-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she independently raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Classical C...
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  • 'An American Mosaic.' No Dead Guys Q&A's with Grammy-Award winning composer; Richard Danielpour
    Posted At: January 27, 2022 12:00 AM
    On March 26, 2021, approximately one year after the first COVID-19 pandemic shutdowns in the U.S., pianist Simone Dinnerstein's recording of An American Mosaic by composer Richard Danielpour will be released on Supertrain Records. An American Mosaic is a set of fifteen miniatures, each commemorating a segment of the American population that has been affected by the pandemic – doctors, parents, children, fro...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, Richard Danielpour - An American Mosaic makes 90.9WETA: New classical albums to listen to this summer!
    Posted At: June 29, 2021 12:00 AM

    90.9WETA wraps up Season 2 of Classical Breakdown with some recommended recordings for you to explore this summer. These recently released albums feature a diverse range of composers, styles, ensembles, and even world premiere recordings.    An American Mosaic is a set of fifteen miniatures, each commemorating a segment of the American population that has been affected by the pandemic &...
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  • A magical collision of music, dance, and some world-class artistry / CLASSIC fM
    Posted At: April 25, 2021 12:00 AM

    CLASSIC fM's Maddy Shaw Roberts writes....A hip-hop dancer and pianist have combined their passions and constructed a hypnotising performance to American minimalist composer Philip Glass' music. While pianist Simone Dinnerstein plays ‘Mad Rush' on piano, hip-hop dancer James Floats Fable moonwalks around the piano in his signature style of ‘glides'.\ Fable, who joined Brooklyn Ballet ...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein offers mesmerizing recital for Music Worcester / Telegram & Gazette Q&A
    Posted At: January 3, 2021 12:00 AM

    Telegram & Gazette's Richard Duckett writes.......Putting together a concert program is obviously something classical music pianist Simone Dinnerstein puts a lot of thought into. You might also say she has delighted in doing it, especially when the end result in performance works as well as she thought it would. "It actually ended up sounding how I envisioned it sounding," Dinnerstein said about ...
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  • 42nd International Latin American Film Festival documentary featuring; Simone Dinnerstein with the Lyceum Orchestra of Havana, reflects the cultural ties between Cuba and the US / Prensa Latina
    Posted At: December 13, 2020 12:00 AM

    The documentary 'Havana Comes to Brooklyn', by Venezuelan director América Maldonado, reflects today the cultural ties between Cuba and the United States on the big screen of the 42nd International Latin American Film Festival. The audiovisual work shows moments of a tour starring the American pianist Simone Dinnerstein together with the Lyceum Orchestra of Havana, the first great musical ...
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  • NPR talks with Simone Dinnerstein about her new album, 'A Character of Quiet,' which she recorded at home
    Posted At: September 15, 2020 12:00 AM

    NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein about her new album, A Character of Quiet, which she recorded at home during the pandemic. Life right now is a lot of things - unsettled, scary, quiet - rush-hour traffic mostly gone, the thrum of our daily routines suspended. For concert pianist Simone Dinnerstein, that has meant no touring, no concerts. Instead, she has recor...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein plays with exquisite singing tone at Symphony Hall gala / The Boston Musical Intelligencer
    Posted At: October 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    The Terezin Music Foundation, which honors the memory of victims of the Holocaust through promotion of music old and new, celebrated its 2018 gala in Symphony Hall Monday evening, with a dinner and a concert in which pianist Simone Dinnerstein gave an hour-plus recital after a string quartet from the Boston Symphony opening the musical portion of the evening.    Dinnerstein played with ...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein revisits Goldberg Variations and stuns PYPA / Philly.com
    Posted At: August 11, 2018 12:00 AM

    More than ever, the Philadelphia Young Pianists' Academy, now in its sixth year, is attracting boldface names for its dead-of-summer festival, not just with master classes by elder statesman Gary Graffman, but with mid-career recitalists such as Simone Dinnerstein. On Wednesday, Dinnerstein revisited Bach's Goldberg Variations some 16 years after launching her relationship with this monument in the keybo...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein discusses new Philip Glass / J.S. Bach recording with 89.7WCPE
    Posted At: July 24, 2018 12:00 AM

    The Grammy-nominated string orchestra A Far Cry and pianist Simone Dinnerstein have teamed up on a new recording of keyboard concertos by Philip Glass and J.S. Bach. The album, entitled Circles, released on Glass' Orange Mountain Music label, features the world premiere recording of Glass's Piano Concerto No. 3, a new concerto for piano and strings co-commissioned by A Far Cry and composed by Gla...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, A Far Cry - Circles is KUSC: Download of the Week
    Posted At: June 19, 2018 12:00 AM

    Circles is a new release from pianist Simone Dinnerstein and the conductor-less chamber ensemble out of Boston, A Far Cry. The recording juxtaposes a keyboard concerto by JS Bach with the brand new Piano Concerto #3 from one of our leading contemporary composers, Philip Glass. In fact, this is the world premiere recording of this new work, which was written with Ms. Dinnerstein in mind. Grab the Third Mo...
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  • Havana Lyceum Orchestra set for 'Artes de Cuba' at Kennedy Center / Washington Post
    Posted At: May 10, 2018 12:00 AM

    For two weeks, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will present Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World, a festival celebrating the artistic richness that has emerged from this "island archipelago in the sun." This unprecedented gathering of Cuban and Cuban-American artists represents some of the world's greatest from the island and the Diaspora. The festival kicked off at the Eise...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein will make New Jersey premiere of Philip Glass concerto with PSO / centraljersey.com
    Posted At: January 20, 2018 12:00 AM

    When Simone Dinnerstein joins the Princeton Symphony Orchestra for a concert on Jan. 28, she will perform a piano concerto written for her by the renown American composer Philip Glass. The new concerto is a co-commission for which Dinnerstein arranged a consortium of 12 orchestras, each of which contributed and will perform the concerto with Dinnerstein, making the Jan. 28 concert at Richardson Auditoriu...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein to explore connections between Glass and Schubert at NYC's Miller Theatre / HollywoodSoapbox
    Posted At: January 18, 2018 12:00 AM

    Celebrated pianist Simone Dinnerstein will offer a unique evening of music that highlights the careers and influence of Philip Glass and Franz Schubert. The performance, which will take place Thursday, Jan. 18 at New York City's Miller Theatre, also serves as a tribute to Glass, who is being fêted this year for his 80th birthday. Dinnerstein has become well known for a number reasons, espec...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein with Boulder Phil plays Philip Glass work, written for pianist / Boulder Daily Camera
    Posted At: January 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    Two previous appearances in Boulder by pianist Simone Dinnerstein strongly endeared her to local audiences. After opening the 2012 Colorado Music Festival season, she returned in 2014 for a concert with the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra. Dinnerstein joins the Phil again on Saturday, Jan. 13, at Macky Auditorium in Boulder's first notable classical music event of 2018. The concert is repeated th...
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  • Pam Tanowitz, Simone Dinnerstein: New Work for Goldberg Variations makes Indy Week: Top Five Dance Performances of 2017
    Posted At: December 27, 2017 12:00 AM

    (Reynolds Industries Theater, October 6 & 7) Commissioned by Duke Performances, the modern dance choreographer Pam Tanowitz and classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein pursued a daunting mission: to pay homage to Bach's legendary music while fashioning it into a new work of art. As Dinnerstein drew Bach's work into her own generous gestural world, Tanowitz's dancers encircled her w...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein to Play Glass and Schubert at Miller Theatre / Broadway World
    Posted At: December 15, 2017 12:00 AM

    Simone Dinnerstein returns to Miller Theatre(Columbia University School of the Arts) on Thursday, January 18, after her Bach concerts this fall with a second concert featuring the music of Philip Glass in his 80th birthday year. This time Simone pairs Glass with Schubert, a composer he not only shares a birthday with-but also a harmonic and spiritual connection. For Dinnerstein, the interpretation o...
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  • Intimidation becomes motivation in Tanowitz/Dinnerstein 'Goldberg Variations' / WBUR: The Artery
    Posted At: December 4, 2017 12:00 AM

    Nearly two years ago, New York-based Pam Tanowitz faced a seemingly risky proposition - to choreograph to Johann Sebastian Bach's "Goldberg Variations." The masterpiece, written in 1741, remains one of the most notoriously daunting pieces in the classical music repertoire. Moreover, the celebrated ballet master and choreographer Jerome Robbins had already created a work to the variations, which was p...
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  • ABC27 'COCA On-the-Go' features Pam Tanowitz, Simone Dinnerstein - New Work For Goldberg Variations
    Posted At: December 2, 2017 12:00 AM

    This week's COCA On-the-Go segment spotlights the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University.  The company is recognized as a major leader in the national field of dance and provides artists in residence with access to critical resources like state of the art dance and conditioning facilities. MANCC And Opening Nights, (Friday, December 1 and Saturday, December 2...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, Pam Tanowitz - New Work for Goldberg Variations / The New Yorker
    Posted At: October 26, 2017 12:00 AM

    At the opening of Simone Dinnerstein and Pam Tanowitz's "New Work for Goldberg Variations," the theatre-the stage, the auditorium-is plunged in utter darkness. What will happen? Before the lights went out, we saw a nice, big Yamaha grand piano in the middle of that stage, but now it seems to be gone, together with everything else in the world. And then you hear-What? Fingers! Ten little fingers, flesh an...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein set to tour new concerto written for her by Philip Glass
    Posted At: September 6, 2017 12:00 AM

    "Simone Dinnerstein is one of the most exciting interpreters of music from baroque to the very modern." - Philip Glass  In the 2017/18 concert season Simone Dinnerstein will be touring a new concerto for piano and string orchestra written for her by Philip Glass -  Piano Concerto No. 3. This exciting new work will be performed by a group of co-commissioning orchestras throughout North Ameri...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein collaborates with choreographer Pam Tanowitz in 'New Work for Goldberg Variations' / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: September 5, 2017 12:00 AM

    Peak Performances presents The New York / New Jersey Premiere of New Work for Goldberg Variations, a project it co-commissioned and developed, October 19-22 at the Alexander Kasser Theater, Peak's state-of-the-art home on the Montclair State University campus. In New Work for Goldberg Variations, pianist Simone Dinnerstein, "an artist of true expressive force" (The Washington Post), and choreogra...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, in concert and conversation / PBS - Articulate
    Posted At: August 25, 2017 12:00 AM

    Simone Dinnerstein is a searching and inventive artist who is motivated by a desire to find the musical core of every work she approaches. The New York-based pianist gained an international following with the remarkable success of her Bach: Goldberg Variations recording, which she independently raised the funds to record. Dinnerstein's performance schedule has taken her around the world since her acclaim...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein on 'Mozart in Cuba' with KUAF - Fayetteville AR
    Posted At: August 17, 2017 12:00 AM

    American pianist Simone Dinnerstein chose the unlikely setting of Cuba to tackle two Mozart piano concertos. "In Havana, wherever you walk there is music," she explains of the vibrant city. The resulting Mozart in Havana, a collaboration with the vibrantly youthful Havana Lyceum Orchestra conducted José Antonio Méndez Padrón, exemplifies the way music transcends boundaries. "I think ...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein interview with WCPE: Wake Forest
    Posted At: July 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    Simone Dinnerstein's new Sony Classical album, Mozart in Havana, may be the pianist's most ambitious to date. A testament to music's ability to cross all cultural and language barriers, for the recording, Dinnerstein collaborated with the virtuosic Havana Lyceum Orchestra to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto Nos. 21 and 23.  In one sense, Mozart in Havana is a return to Dinnerstei...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein takes Mozart to Havana / All Classical Portland
    Posted At: July 7, 2017 12:00 AM

    American pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who first received critical acclaim for her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, has made collaboration a major part of her career since that first, solo recording. She has created recordings that bridge the worlds of classical music, jazz and folk. Her longtime collaborator and arranger, composer Philip Lasser, has been with her practically since the beginning, a...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein Q&A with 90.5 WUOL: Louisville
    Posted At: June 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Before traveling to Havana in 2015 to perform at a piano festival, Simone Dinnerstein was mostly unaware of the Cuban classical music scene. That all changed when she was introduced to the Havana Lyceum Orchestra and recorded her Sony Classical album - Mozart in Havana. Recorded in Cuba, this may be the pianist's most ambitious work ...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein fondly recalls one very hot rehearsal in Old Havana / NPR
    Posted At: June 22, 2017 12:00 AM

    Last month, American pianist Simone Dinnerstein was in Cuba preparing for her current North American tour with an orchestra of young musicians from Havana. She fondly recalls one very hot rehearsal. She says -  "I feel like I've known Cuba for most of my life. When I was nine years old, my piano teacher Solomon Mikowsky, a Cuban Jew of Polish descent, told me stories of growing up in Havana. Whe...
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  • Bach-Packing at Woodburn Elementary with Simone Dinnerstein
    Posted At: June 20, 2017 12:00 AM

    Pianist Simone Dinnerstein visited the Woodburn Elementary School in Falls Church VA after her recent appearances in the area with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Dinnerstein who performed and meet with children in an episode of Bach-Packing, hasa new album out on the Sony Classical label, called Mozart in Havana. Recorded in Cuba, this new work may be her most ambitious to date and is a testament to music&...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, Havana Lyceum Orchestra play Mozart at SiriusXM
    Posted At: June 15, 2017 12:00 AM

    Simone Dinnerstein's new Sony Classical album, Mozart in Havana, may be the pianist's most ambitious to date. A testament to music's ability to cross all cultural and language barriers, for the recording, Dinnerstein collaborated with the virtuosic Havana Lyceum Orchestra to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto Nos. 21 and 23.  In one sense, Mozart in Havana is a return to Dinnerstei...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein with Havana Lyceum Orchestra set for FSO: Presents / Fairfax Times
    Posted At: June 14, 2017 12:00 AM

    As a part of the newly launched concert series "FSO: Presents," from the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, renowned pianist Simone Dinnerstein is performing this month with the Havana Lyceum Orchestra. Dinnerstein and the Havana Lyceum Woodwind Quintet perform Thursday, June 15 at the Jewish Community Center of Northern Virginia at 7 p.m. in honor of Fairfax County's 275th anniversary. Performing songs from he...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein, Havana Lyceum Orchestra are beltway bound / Washington Post
    Posted At: June 12, 2017 12:00 AM

    This month, the Havana Lyceum Orchestra a group of gifted young musicians from Cuba, have come to the United States for 10 concerts with the Brooklyn-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein, who recruited them for her just-released "Mozart in Havana" album. The performances include concerts in Virginia on Thursday June 15 at 7 p.m. at Jewish Community Center of NOVA, Fairfax, Sunday June 18 at 5 p.m. ...
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  • Simone Dinnerstein discusses US tour with Havana Lyceum Orchestra / BRIC TV
    Posted At: June 9, 2017 12:00 AM

    The Havana Lyceum Orchestra, in their first-ever American tour, will be performing in New York and in other cities. On stage with them is Brooklyn native and acclaimed Simone Dinnerstein, who stops by BRIC TV to tell us what's behind this cross-cultural saga. Dinnerstein's new Sony Classical album, Mozart in Havana, recorded in Cuba, may be her most ambitious to date and is a testament to music&#...
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