J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 10 (Fughetta)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 27 (Canone alla Nona)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 9 (Canone alla Terza)

The Berlin Concert

French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: I. Allemande (Live)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 4

Philip Lasser 12 Variations on a Chorale by J.S. Bach: Variation 6 - Allegro vivace (Live)

Philip Lasser 12 Variations on a Chorale by J.S. Bach: Variation 9 - Largo (Live)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 11

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 26

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 18 (Canone alla Sesta)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 30 (Quodlibet)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 12 (Canone alla Quarta)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13 (Live)

French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816: II. Courante (Live)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 20

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria da capo

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 14

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 29

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 15 (Canone alla Quinta)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 22

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 21 (Canone alla Settima)

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 13

Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 25

Bach: Inventions & Sinfonias

Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783

Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772

Invention No. 10 in G Major, BWV 781

Invention No. 4 in D Minor, BWV 775

Invention No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 773

Invention No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 784

Invention No. 11 in G Minor, BWV 782

Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777

Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779

Invention No. 7 in E Minor, BWV 778

Invention No. 14 in B-Flat Major, BWV 785

Invention No. 5 in E-Flat Major, BWV 776

Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774

Invention No. 9 in F Minor, BWV 780

Klassik Wunderland - Klassische Musik für Kinder

Prelude in C Minor, BWV 999

American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has been called "a throwback to such high priestesses of music as Wanda Landowska and Myra Hess," by Slate magazine, and praised by TIME for her "arresting freshness and subtlety." The New York-based pianist gained an international following because of the remarkable success of her recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which she raised the funds to record. Released in 2007 on Telarc, it ranked No. 1 on the US Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and was named to many "Best of 2007" lists including those of The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and The New Yorker. Her follow-up album, The Berlin Concert, also gained the No. 1 spot on the Chart.

Ms. Dinnerstein has since signed an exclusive agreement with Sony Classical, and her first album for that label - Bach: A Strange Beauty - was released in January 2011, immediately earning the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart, and making the Billboard Top 200 which compiles the entire music industry's top selling albums in all genres. The San Francisco Chronicle called Bach: A Strange Beauty "unadorned but profound bliss," and The Washington Post raved, "Dinnerstein's readings may be said to plumb these works' genuine depths . . . poised, elegant, wonderfully played." In conjunction with the album's release, Ms. Dinnerstein was featured on national television by CBS Sunday Morning.

Ms. Dinnerstein's performance schedule has taken her around the world since her triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall in 2005, performing Bach's Goldberg Variations. Recent and upcoming performances include her recital debuts at The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Vienna Konzerthaus, and London's Wigmore Hall, the Lincoln Center Mostly Mozart Festival, the Aspen and Ravinia festivals, in Cologne, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Vilnius, Bremen, Rome, and Lisbon, and at the Stuttgart Bach Festival; as well as debut performances with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, Dresden Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Minnesota Orchestra, Atlanta Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Orchestra of St. Luke's, Kristjan Järvi's Absolute Ensemble, and the Tokyo Symphony. In New York she has performed on Lincoln Center's Great Performers series, and in three sold-out recitals at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also a frequent performer at New York's (Le) Poisson Rouge, a club presenting all genres of music.

She has played concerts throughout the United States for the Piatigorsky Foundation, an organization dedicated to bringing classical music to non-traditional venues. Amongst the places she has played are nursing homes, schools and community centers. Most notably, she gave the first classical music performance in the Louisiana state prison system when she played at the Avoyelles Correctional Center. She also performed at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, in a concert organized by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra to coincide with her BSO debut.

In addition, Ms. Dinnerstein has founded Neighborhood Classics, a concert series open to the public and hosted by New York City public schools. The concerts, which feature musicians Ms. Dinnerstein has admired and collaborated with during her career, raise funds for the schools' Parent Teacher Associations. The musicians performing donate their time and talent to the program. Neighborhood Classics began at PS 321, the Brooklyn public elementary school that her son attends and where her husband teaches fifth grade, and expanded in 2010 to PS 142 on New York's Lower East Side.

Ms. Dinnerstein is a graduate of The Juilliard School where she was a student of Peter Serkin. She was a winner of the Astral Artist National Auditions, and has twice received the Classical Recording Foundation Award. She also studied with Solomon Mikowsky at the Manhattan School of Music and in London with Maria Curcio.

Simone Dinnerstein

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