Simone Dinnerstein
is an American classical pianist, born in New York City, USA. Her father, Simon Dinnerstein [1], is a painter. A former piano teacher, she resides in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York, [2] with her husband, Jeremy Greensmith, a 5th grade teacher at P.S.321, and their son, Adrian, a second grader at 321.
Dinnerstein has become celebrated, both critically and commercially, for her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations
. [3] [4]
She studied in the precollege program at the Manhattan School of Music with Solomon Mikowsky. [5] She later attended The Juilliard School of Music and was a student of Peter Serkin. [6] She also studied in London with Maria Curcio.
She was not a complete unknown before the release of . When the Telarc label (Telarc CD-80692) released the recording, her career was "launched into the stratosphere" with the album outselling The White Stripes on Amazon.com. [2] [8], In its first week of commercial release, the recording was at #1 on the Billboard
classical music CD sales chart. [9] The disc appeared on a number of “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. Her previous commercially released recording was with the cellist Zuill Bailey of the chamber music for cello and piano of Ludwig van Beethoven, for the Delos label (DE 3368).
To follow up on the success of the Goldberg Variations recording, Dinnerstein recorded a recital live at the Berlin Philharmonie, on Nov. 22, 2007. The program included Aaron Copland's "Piano Variations," and Anton Webern's “Variations" - neither of which was to be included on the concert CD. She then focused on three Bach-related works to be included on the CD, Bach's French Suites No. 5 in G (BWV 816); the premiere recording of Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach
by the American composer Philip Lasser (b. 1963), and the Piano Sonata no. 32, op. 111, by Beethoven (with a first movement that makes extensive use of fugal textures reminiscent of Bach). The recording was released by Telarc on August 26, 2008 [10].
In addition to her solo recital work [11], she has been a featured guest artist at the Bard Music Festival. [12] [13] [14] In addition, she has appeared as a chamber musician in performances of contemporary music, including works of Yehudi Wyner [15] and Ned Rorem [16].
Dinnerstein has toured as piano soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic and Czech Philharmonic. For the 2008-09 season, she is scheduled to appear with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York City's Orchestra of St. Luke's, and the Absolute Ensemble.
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