Don't miss this compelling performance by Classical pianist Simone Dinnerstein on Sunday, May 20 at 3:00 p.m.! You and three guests will enjoy the luminous beauty of Dinnerstein's   music in special VIP seating located in the President's Box at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, New Jersey.
 
Think of Bach’s music played on the piano, and you think immediately of Glenn Gould. But the young American pianist Simone Dinnerstein is changing that. Seemingly out of nowhere, Dinnerstein took the music world by storm a few years ago with her stunning recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations (Gould’s signature piece), reimagining that unique, revered masterpiece with a freshness and clarity that seemed to reawaken it. Dinnerstein continues to explore Bach’s canon with remarkable success, and the all-Bach recital she is bringing to NJPAC will no doubt open your mind to new possibilities in this well-known repertoire. Bach, of course, did not write for the modern concert grand piano, which has a dynamic and timbral range that dwarfs the instruments Bach knew and played. So the performance of his music requires a special kind of collaboration from a pianist – one that balances the architectural rigor of pieces written for harpsichord and clavier with the luminous beauty of the music Bach imagined. This is where Simone Dinnerstein makes magic. "An utterly distinctive voice in the forest of Bach interpretation,” The New York Times wrote of her recording of the Goldbergs, “Ms. Dinnerstein brings her own pianistic expressivity to the Goldberg Variations, probing each variation as if it were something completely new. She learned them herself and recorded them herself … it became one of the success stories of the year." Dinnerstein does not follow in anyone’s footsteps as an interpreter. She is an original and exacting artist, and her work is a revelation. You have to believe that Bach, first and foremost, would have loved that."