July 29: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is Featured Soloist with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra Conducted by Music Director Daniel Meyer
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GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
Is Featured Soloist with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra
in W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K 456
Conducted by Music Director Daniel Meyer
Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7pm
Hoover Auditorium | 115 West 3rd Street | Lakeside, OH
Tickets and More Information
PLUS Dinnerstein and Baroklyn’s New Philip Glass Album Hourglass Out Now
Review downloads & CDs available upon request.
Simone Dinnerstein: www.simonedinnerstein.com
Lakeside, OH – GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein, described by The New Yorker as an artist of “lean, knowing, and unpretentious elegance,” joins the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Daniel Meyer, as the featured soloist on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7pm in Hoover Auditorium (115 West 3rd Street). She will perform W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K 456. The concert, which is part of Lakeside’s Family Night Series, also includes Vishwas: Testament by Reena Esmail and Appalachian Spring Suite by Aaron Copland.
Before the concert, from 5:30-6:30 pm, children are invited to a hands-on instrument discovery event in the Hoover Auditorium lobby. With help from the symphony's friendly musicians, children can try out violins, trumpets, trombones and more. It's a fun, interactive way to spark a love of music. Also prior to the concert, 5:45 pm there will be a Symphony Pre-Concert Lecture in Orchestra Hall.
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein first came to wider public attention in 2007 through her recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, reflecting an aesthetic that was both deeply rooted in the score and profoundly personal. She has played with orchestras ranging from the New York Philharmonic and 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, Seoul Arts Center and Sydney Opera House.
“This will be the first performance of this work for me and I am very excited about it!” says Dinnerstein. “I haven’t learned a new Mozart Piano Concerto in many years so it’s a fascinating experience for me to delve into a new Mozart work at this stage of my life. I last learned a Mozart concerto when I was in my twenties, and it is entirely different to approach his music as a mature adult.”
On June 5, 2026, Dinnerstein released Hourglass –– her first album on naïve since signing with the label earlier this year. The new recording features Philip Glass’s Suite from The Hours and his Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto No. 1). The album, recorded with Dinnerstein’s own ensemble Baroklyn, is another milestone in her close artistic association with the renowned composer, who celebrates his 90th birthday in January 2027. The album is out now –– listen here. Read the album press release here.
Simone Dinnerstein’s first fourteen albums were recorded with GRAMMY Award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, and feature 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 2021 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. Dinnerstein’s latest recording, Complicité (Supertrain Records, 2025), is her first all-Bach album in over ten years and features Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano and Peggy Pearson, oboe d’amore along with the string ensemble Dinnerstein founded and directs, Baroklyn (a portmanteau of Baroque and Brooklyn, her home New York borough). Recorded with producer Silas Brown, the album also includes composer Philip Lasser’s continuo realizations and recomposition of Bach’s Air on the G String. Complicité reached over one million streams on Apple Music in its first two weeks after release.
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 Concord Sonata. She released her live recording of the premiere in October 2024 on Supertrain Records to coincide with Ives’s 150th birthday. The Eye is the First Circle also marked Dinnerstein’s fourteenth and final recording produced with the late Adam Abeshouse. Dinnerstein 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. Dinnerstein has also created her own ensemble, Baroklyn, which she directs.
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, described by The New Yorker as an artist of “lean, knowing, and unpretentious elegance,” is the featured soloist with the Lakeside Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Music Director Daniel Meyer, in her debut performance of W.A. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 18 in B-flat, K 456. The concert, which is part of Lakeside’s Family Night Series, also includes Vishwas: Testament by Reena Esmail and Appalachian Spring Suite by Aaron Copland. From 5:30-6:30 pm, children are invited to a hands-on instrument discovery event in the Hoover Auditorium lobby. There will also be a Symphony Pre-Concert Lecture in Orchestra Hall at 5:45pm.
Concert details:
Who: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
Presented as the Featured Soloist with Lakeside Symphony Orchestra
Conducted by Music Director Daniel Meyer
What: Music by W.A. Mozart, Reena Esmail, and Aaron Copland
When: Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 7pm
Where: Hoover Auditorium, 115 West 3rd Street, Lakeside Marblehead,OH 43440
Tickets and More Information: https://lakesideohio.com/event/2026/07/29/family-night-in-hoover-lakeside-symphony-orchestra-with-simone-dinnerstein-piano/