Aug. 24: Pianist Simone Dinnerstein Presented by New Marlborough Meeting House – Performing Music of J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, and Keith Jarrett
GRAMMY®-Nominated Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
Presented by New Marlborough Meeting House
Performing the Music of J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, and Keith Jarrett
Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 4:30PM
New Marlborough Meeting House
154 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road | New Marlborough, MA
Tickets and information
“a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation.” – The New York Times
Simone Dinnerstein: www.simonedinnerstein.com
New Marlborough, MA – GRAMMY®-nominated pianist Simone Dinnerstein will be presented in concert by New Marlborough Meeting House (154 Hartsville-New Marlborough Road) on Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 4:30pm. Dinnerstein, who is heralded for her distinctive musical voice and her commitment to sharing classical music with everyone, will perform J.S. Bach’s fifteen Inventions and Sinfonias, Philip Glass’s Etude No. 2, and Keith Jarrett’s Encore from Tokyo (transcribed by Uwe Karcher).
Simone Dinnerstein first gained widespread recognition in 2007 with her debut album featuring J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations, and has since become increasingly celebrated for her interpretations of contemporary works, particularly those of Philip Glass. She has performed and recorded Glass's Piano Concerto No. 3, which the composer wrote specifically for her in 2017, and NPR Music praised her recording, noting that “Dinnerstein's creamy tone and elastic phrasing gives the music an air of Schubertian warmth and wistfulness.” Her New Marlborough program thoughtfully bridges centuries of keyboard music, beginning with Bach’s pedagogical masterworks. In his preface to his Sinfonias, Bach described these pieces as, “An honest guide by which the amateurs of the keyboard – especially, however, those desirous of learning – are shown a clear way…to achieve a cantabile style in playing and at the same time acquire a strong foretaste of composition.” The program moves from Bach to Glass's meditative Etude No. 2, and concludes with Keith Jarrett's Encore from Tokyo, which embraces Baroque conventions through a descending repeating bass line while building harmonically adventurous and wide-ranging improvisations around it.
Simone Dinnerstein recently released her newest album, Complicité – her first all-Bach recording in over ten years. Shortly after its release, it reached over 1 million streams on Apple Music. In addition to Dinnerstein, the album 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, 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. Read the full 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.
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Description: GRAMMY-nominated® pianist Simone Dinnerstein, “a unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (The New York Times) and a praised interpreter of Philip Glass, is presented in concert by New Marlborough Meeting House. Dinnerstein will perform a program featuring the music of J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, and Keith Jarrett.
Concert details:
Who: GRAMMY-nominated® Pianist Simone Dinnerstein
Presented by New Marlborough Meeting House
What: Music by J.S. Bach, Philip Glass, and Keith Jarrett
When: Sunday, August 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Where: 154 Hartsville-New Marlborough Rd, New Marlborough, MA 01230
Tickets and information: nmmeetinghouse.org/music