Internationally acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk will be returning to Hawai’i to perform in the Honolulu Chamber Music Series on Saturday, April 10th. On April 9th he will be giving a masterclass to Hawai’i’s talented pianists. Both events will be held at Orvis Auditorium at UH Manoa.
Admission to the masterclass is FREE and all are welcome.
Tickets to the concert can be purchased HERE.
-Co-presented with the Honolulu Chamber Music Series
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’. Winner of a MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, and the Avery Fisher Prize, he has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Denk has appeared many times at Carnegie Hall and in recent years has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, and Cleveland Orchestra. His memoir Every Good Boy Does Fine will be published by Penguin Random House in March 2022.
In the 2021-22 Season, Denk appears with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Seattle Symphony performing John Adams’ “Must the Devil Have All The GreatTunes?”. He also returns to the San Francisco Symphony to perform Messiaen under Esa-Pekka Salonen, and tours internationally as soloist with Les Violons du Roy. Meanwhile, he continues a major multi-season focus on the music of Bach with performances of Book 1 of the Well-Tempered Clavier at the Barbican Centre, Celebrity Series of Boston, Stanford Live, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, the 92Y in New York City, at the Bath Festival in the UK, and the Lammermuir Festival in Scotland, where Denk is artist-in-residence. He also returns to play-direct the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, with whom he recently released a new Mozart Concerti album on Nonesuch Records. The disc was praised by the Guardian for its “questing intelligence and energy”.
Masterclass Program
Isabella Liu: Jeux dʻeau by Maurice Ravel
Jannik Evanoff: Sarcasms Op.17 by Sergei Prokofiev
Sam Chen: Excerpts from Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky
Alyssa Hironaka: Rain Tree Sketch II by Toru Takemitsu