Featured Performers

• Jeremy Denk, piano

Program

• BEETHOVEN: Sonata in E minor, Op. 90
• JOPLIN: “Bethana, A Concert Waltz”
• GOTTSCHALK: The Banjo, Op. 15
• Nina SIMONE: “Just in Time”
• William BOLCOM: “Poltergeist” Rag
• BEETHOVEN: Sonata in A-flat major, Op. 110
• IVES: Sonata No. 2 (“Concord Sonata”)

Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, Jeremy Denk is “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (New York Times). Experience the soulful rhythms of Scott Joplin and Nina Simone, the rich harmonies of William Bolcom, alongside iconic works by Beethoven and Charles Ives. 

Mr. Denk, clearly, is a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.

The New York Times

Able to draw the listener into his own ­feeling of ­renewed discovery

Chicago Tribune

An unerring sense of the music’s dramatic ­structure and a great actor’s intuition for ­timing

Boston Globe