Duke Performances

Ms. Dinnerstein's January 20 recital has been postponed, due to illness, and will now take place on March 2. 

Your ticket(s) for January 20 will grant you access to the rescheduled recital on March 2.  If schedule conflicts prevent you from attending Ms. Dinnerstein's performance in March, you can exchange your tickets for an alternate Duke Performances presentation.

If you choose to exchange, call the University Box Office with your request at 684-4444 (M-F, 11a-6p).  If none of the above work as options for you, you can donate your ticket back to the Piano Recital Series (for which you will receive a charitable donation tax credit) or you can be refunded for the face value of your ticket.

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In her 2011 Duke Performances collaboration with Tift Merritt, the Brooklyn-based pianist Simone Dinnerstein caught Americana partisans off guard with her marvelous solo rendition of a suite by Bach — a composer whose rigorously precise music she plays with accessible clarity and “lean, knowing, unpretentious elegance” (The New Yorker). After rising to prominence via a self-financed recording of the Goldberg Variations, she now records for the eminent Sony Classical label. This year, Dinnerstein steps into the solo spotlight for a full course of piano music, offering two delightful Bach Partitas alongside poetically tender meditations by Brahms and Schubert.

PROGRAM:
CHOPIN: Nocturne No. 8 in D-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 2
DANIEL FELSENFELD: The Cohen Variations
BRAHMS: Intermezzo in A Major, Op. 118, No. 2
BACH: Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV826
SCHUBERT: Impromptus, Op. 90
BACH: Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV825