Watch Simone's segment during Michael Lawrence Films Bach Project (a work in progress):
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"If you only have 1 hour, 18 minutes: Listen to pianist Simone Dinnerstein's recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations (Telarc), a timeless, meditative, utterly audacious solo debut." -- O, The Oprah Magazine
"This was a thoughtfully conceived, thoroughly modern performance that seemed to take into account the development of Western art music since Bach . . . an individual, compelling performance." -- The New York Times
“Dinnerstein’s inspired interpretation had many wonderful surprises in store . . . her harmonic intensity left an indelible mark on this mesmerized listener" -- American Record Guide
"Among the other things that might be said is that she is a forceful player but also a thoughtful one, and if those qualities seem at odds, each of her performances showed how they can work. In the Copland [Piano Variations], for example, she outlined the opening theme with a steely clarity and the sharpest definition, and in the most extroverted variations she produced a titanic, sharp-edged sound that evoked the work's modernist provenance. Yet in variations that demanded a sense of mystery, her timbre was gauzy and veiled, and, most crucially, she used silence as eloquently as volume and color . . . And in the [Beethoven's final sonata's] closing pages, she drew on a delicate, almost whispered timbre that proved the most moving moment of the performance." -- The New York Times
"Emotionally, intellectually and technically, this music [Beethoven Sonata No. 32, Op. 111] couldn't be more demanding, and Dinnerstein's performance was in a league with any of the great Beethoven pianists of our time…the music's mercurial qualities weren’t outbursts so much as a musical landscape with endless possibilities and no boundaries. I've heard Dinnerstein play fine performances, but none with the thunderbolt-hurling confidence of this one." -- The Philadelphia Inquirer
Recorded live on November 22, 2007 at the Berlin Philharmonie
Music by Bach, Philip Lasser, and Beethoven
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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 in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, at the Aspen and Ravinia festivals, in San Francisco, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Vilnius, Bremen, and at the Stuttgart Bach Festival; as well as debut performances with the Dresden Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Kristjan Järvi’s Absolute Ensemble. In New York, she performs on the People’s Symphony series at Town Hall and on Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series during the 2007-2008 season.
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 Traditional Classical Chart during its first week of sales and has remained highly ranked since then. 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 (along with Amy Winehouse, Andy Davis, Chrisette Michele, and Grace Potter).
The New York Times reported, "An utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation, Ms. Dinnerstein brings her own pianistic expressivity to the Goldberg Variations, probing each variation as if it were something completely new." Slate.com raved, “Dinnerstein is a throwback to such high priestesses of music as Wanda Landowska and Myra Hess . . . [She] is touring. Go hear her, and get religion. And if you can’t, there’s always the record.” Piano Magazine called the disc, “precisely the kind of playing that the early 21st century most needs, infused as it is with a deep and pervasive sense of beauty and tenderness of heart which is often profoundly affecting.”
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 will be released by Telarc on August 26, 2008 in the US and September 29, 2008 in the UK.
Ms. Dinnerstein graduated from The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. Her other teachers include Solomon Mikowsky and Maria Curcio. She is represented worldwide by Tanja Dorn at IMG Artists.
Ms. Dinnerstein makes her home in Brooklyn, NY, where she lives with her husband and son. Her father is the painter, Simon Dinnerstein.
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