Simone Dinnerstein, renowned for her distinctive musical voice and celebrated Bach interpretations, performs works by Bach, Rameau, and others in a program combining clarity, imagination, and expressive depth.
PROGRAM : REFLECTIONS
RAMEAU : Gavotte et six doubles
PHILIP LASSER: Twelve Variations on Chorale by J.S. Bach
Intermission
J.S. BACH: 15 Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
KEITH JARRET: Encore from “Tokyo”
Simone Dinnerstein is an American pianist celebrated for her distinctive musical voice and deeply personal artistry. The Washington Post has called her “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity,” while The New York Times has described her as “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.” She first came to wide public attention in 2007 with her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, an interpretation praised for being both rigorously faithful to the score and profoundly individual.
Since then, Dinnerstein has enjoyed an international performing career, appearing with orchestras including the New York Philharmonic, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale Rai. She has performed in major venues worldwide, among them Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Berlin Philharmonie, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Seoul Arts Center, and the Sydney Opera House.
Dinnerstein has released fifteen albums, all of which have topped the Billboard classical charts. Her recordings span a wide range of repertoire, from Couperin to Philip Glass. Notable recent projects include a trilogy of pandemic-era recordings made in her Brooklyn home, and Complicité (2025), her first all-Bach album in over a decade, featuring mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano, oboist Peggy Pearson, and Baroklyn, the string ensemble she founded and directs.
Equally known for her creative projects and collaborations, Dinnerstein has premiered works by Philip Glass, Richard Danielpour, André Previn, Philip Lasser, and others, and has conceived and directed multimedia productions combining music and visual art. She is deeply committed to bringing classical music to nontraditional venues and underserved audiences, working for decades with the Piatigorsky Foundation and founding the Neighborhood Classics concert series in New York City.
A dedicated educator and mentor, Dinnerstein serves on the piano faculty of the Mannes School of Music and is a frequent competition juror. She studied with Solomon Mikowsky, Maria Curcio, and Peter Serkin, and believes passionately in music’s power to transform listeners and communities alike.