June 14: GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn Presented by Music Mountain – Performing Works by J.S. Bach and Philip Glass
Photo of Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn by Grayson Dantzic available in high resolution here.
GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn
Presented by Music Mountain
Performing Music by J.S. Bach and Philip Glass
From 2025 Album Complicité and Forthcoming Album Hourglass
Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 3pm
Gordon Hall, Music Mountain | 225 Music Mountain Road | Falls Village, CT
Tickets & Information
Complicité is Out Now on Supertrain Records
Dinnerstein and Baroklyn’s New Philip Glass Album Hourglass Out June 5 on Naïve
Listen to First Single The Hours
Review downloads & CDs available upon request.
Simone Dinnerstein: www.simonedinnerstein.com
Falls Village, CT – On Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 3pm, GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein — described by The New Yorker as an artist of “lean, knowing, and unpretentious elegance” — performs with Baroklyn, the string ensemble she founded and directs, in a concert presented by Music Mountain as part of their Summer Chamber Music Series at Gordon Hall (225 Music Mountain Road).
Simone Dinnerstein is well known for her distinctive musical voice and for her expressive performances of music by J.S. Bach. She 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 is, wrote The New York Times, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.”
Dinnerstein and Baroklyn will be performing selections from their all-Bach album, Complicité, released last year on Supertrain Records. Works on the program include Dinnerstein and Baroklyn’s arrangement of Bach’s chorale Herr Gott, nun schleuß den Himmel auf, BWV 617; Bach’s Keyboard Concerto in E Major, BWV 1053; J.S. Bach: Der Leib war in der Erden, BWV 161 (arr. Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn); and In the Air, Philip Lasser’s recomposition of Bach’s Air on the G String.
They will also perform Philip Glass’s Suite from The Hours (arr. Michael Riesman), which is included on their forthcoming album Hourglass – Dinnerstein’s first album on naïve since signing with the label earlier this year, out on June 5, 2026. Hourglass features Philip Glass’s Suite from The Hours as well his Tirol Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Piano Concerto No. 1). The album is another milestone in Dinnerstein’s close artistic association with the renowned composer, who celebrates his 90th birthday in January 2027. The first single, The Hours, is out now –– listen here. Read the album press release here.
Dinnerstein sees a natural affinity between the music of Philip Glass and that of J.S. Bach in their deeply polyphonic visions, quest for the absolute independence of each line, and an abiding concern for the singing quality of musical phrases. She says, “When I think about the music of Philip Glass, I think about time. The music is intricate and polyphonic. It’s layered, with patterns that keep shifting in the subtlest of ways. Though the harmonies are clearly important in the musical narrative, Glass’s music is multi-linear in a way that evokes the music of Bach. It is music on the horizontal, as opposed to the vertical. If anything, it is circular music. . .”
Dinnerstein says of her group Baroklyn, “Baroklyn is a group of string players which I lead from the piano. We’re a community that shares the artistic vision that is most important to me, that music should be creative and new. Rehearsal is important to us, and I’ve been influenced by theater practice in which we listen to each other and pass musical ideas and phrases within the group. We rehearse and perform in a semi-circle around the piano and I rearrange parts to emphasize lines, voices and imitative qualities to create a sense of dialogue.” The ensemble’s name is a portmanteau of Baroque and Brooklyn, Dinnerstein’s home borough.
More about Simone Dinnerstein: Simone 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.
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, who The New Yorker describes as an artist of “lean, knowing, and unpretentious elegance,” performs with Baroklyn (the string ensemble she founded and directs) in a concert presented by Music Mountain as part of their Summer Chamber Music Series. The concert will feature music by J.S. Bach and Philip Lasser from their album Complicité, as well as Philip Glass’s Suite from The Hours from their album Hourglass, out on June 5.
Concert details:
Who: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein with Baroklyn
Presented by Music Mountain
What: Music by J.S. Bach and Philip Glass
When: Sunday, June 14, 2026 at 3pm
Where: Gordon Hall, 225 Music Mountain Road, Falls Village, CT 06031
Tickets and Information: https://musicmountain.org/