Square graphic with image of Jermy Denk sitting on a wood floor against a distressed blue painted wood background wearing blue jeans and a black button down. Text: Piano Palooza Jeremy Denk Sunday October 20 2:00pm

Portland Conservatory of Music

Jeremy
Denk

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Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by the New York Times ‘a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.’ Denk is also a New York Times bestselling author, winner of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Denk’s latest album of Mozart piano concertos was released in 2021 on Nonesuch Records. The album, deemed “urgent and essential” by BBC Radio 3. His recording of the Goldberg Variations for Nonesuch Records reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts, and his recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111 paired with Ligeti’s Études was named one of the best discs of the year by the New Yorker, NPR, and the Washington Post, while his account of the Beethoven sonata was selected by BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library as the best available version recorded on modern piano.

PROGRAM: Celebrating 150 years of Charles Ives
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata in E minor, Op. 90
Scott Joplin – Bethany Waltz
Louie Moreau Gottschalk – The Banjo
Nina Simone – Just in Time
William Bolcom – Poltergeist Rag
Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata in A-flat, Op. 110

– Intermission –

Charle Ives – Sonata No. 2 “Concord”

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