Aug. 23: GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is Presented by Maverick Concerts as Soloist with Caroga Arts Ensemble Conducted by Alexander Platt

GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is Featured Soloist with Caroga Arts Ensemble
Presented by Maverick Concerts

Performing Piano Concerto No. 3 by Philip Glass
Conducted by Alexander Platt and Directed by Kyle Price

Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 6pm
Maverick Concert Hall | 120 Maverick Rd | Woodstock, NY
Tickets and information

“an utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” – The New York Times

Simone Dinnerstein: www.simonedinnerstein.com

Woodstock, NY – Pianist Simone Dinnerstein is presented by Maverick Concerts at Maverick Concert Hall (120 Maverick Rd) on Saturday August 23, 2025 at 6pm. Dinnerstein, who is heralded for her distinctive musical voice and her commitment to sharing classical music with everyone, is the featured soloist with the Caroga Arts Ensemble, conducted by Alexander Platt and directed by Kyle Price, in a performance of Philip Glass’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The concert also includes Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Strings (“Basle”), Robert Manno’s Adagio for Strings, and Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Simone Dinnerstein is well known for her distinctive musical voice and increasingly so for her interpretations of music by Philip Glass. She has performed and recorded Glass’s Piano Concerto No. 3, which he wrote for her in 2017, co-commissioned by twelve orchestras. NPR Music reported of her recording of the piece, “Dinnerstein's creamy tone and elastic phrasing gives the music an air of Schubertian warmth and wistfulness.” She is deeply familiar with this concerto, having performed the work over fifty times, all around the world, from Havana, Cuba to London, England.

On returning to perform with Alexander Platt and Caroga Arts Ensemble, Dinnerstein says:

“It is always such a wonderful experience to play in the Maverick’s very special space. It is a true community of devoted music and nature lovers. I am delighted to collaborate again with the fantastic musicians of the Caroga Arts Ensemble, on a work that is very meaningful to me.”

On May 30, 2025, Dinnerstein released her fifteenth recording, Complicité, on Supertrain Records. This 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 Simone founded and directs, Baroklyn (a portmanteau of Baroque and Brooklyn, Dinnerstein’s 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. Shortly after its release, it reached over 1 million streams on Apple Music. Read the album press release here.

About Simone Dinnerstein: 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 idiosyncratic. She is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”

Dinnerstein 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. She has made fourteen albums, all of which topped the Billboard charts and were recorded by GRAMMY Award-winning producer Adam Abeshouse. During the pandemic she recorded three albums which form a trilogy: A Character of Quiet, An American Mosaic, and Undersong. An American Mosaic was nominated for a GRAMMY.

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 York Times as “colorful and idiosyncratic,” is presented by Maverick Concerts as the featured soloist with the Caroga Arts Ensemble, conducted by Alexander Platt and directed by Kyle Price. Dinnerstein will perform Piano Concerto No. 3 by Philip Glass, which was composed for her. The concert also includes Igor Stravinsky’s Concerto in D for Strings, Robert Manno’s Adagio for Strings, and Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge.

Concert details:

Who: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Caroga Arts Ensemble Conducted by Alexander Platt, Directed by Kyle Price
Presented by Maverick Concerts
What: Performing Philip Glass’s Concerto No. 3
When: Saturday, August 23, 2025 at 6pm
Where: Maverick Concert Hall, 120 Maverick Rd, Woodstock, NY
Tickets and information: www.maverickconcerts.org/event/maverick-chamber-orchestra-concert-with-simone-dinnerstein-piano-and-the-caroga-arts-ensemble-maverick-saturday-nights/

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