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{{Short description|American classical pianist}}
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[[File:Simone Dinnerstein (Portrait).jpg|thumb|Simone Dinnerstein]]
'''Simone Dinnerstein''' (born September 18, 1972)<ref name="fatherbio"/> is an American classical [[pianist]] who is noted for her self-financed recording of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'', released in 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.emusic.com/album/Simone-Dinnerstein-J-S-Bach-Goldberg-Variations-MP3-Download/11117599.html |title=Download J.S. Bach: Goldberg Variations by Simone Dinnerstein |publisher=eMusic |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SQJ2X2 |title=Simone Dinnerstein, J.S. Bach: Bach: Goldberg Variations: Music |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref>
'''Simone Andrea Dinnerstein''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|ɪ|n|ər|ˌ|s|t|iː|n}})<ref>{{cite web|author=Deanna Selene |url=https://combustus.com/simone-dinnerstein-classical-pianist/ |title=An Interview with Concert Pianist Simone Dinnerstein |publisher=Combustus |accessdate=2023-04-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Lance G. Hill |url=https://www.classicalmusicguide.com/viewtopic.php?t=48817 |title=About pronouncing "steen" or "stine" ... |publisher=The Classical Music Guide Forums |date=2018-08-16 |accessdate=2023-04-08}}</ref> (born September 18, 1972)<ref name="fatherbio"/> is an American classical [[pianist]].


==Education==
==Education==
Simone Andréa<ref name="fatherbio"/> Dinnerstein was born in [[New York City|New York]], United States. She is the daughter of Renee and [[Simon Dinnerstein]].<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/23/sunday/main7274692.shtml |title=Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom |publisher=CBS News |date=2011-01-23 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> She studied in the pre-college program at the [[Manhattan School of Music]] with Solomon Mikowsky.<ref name="Midgette1">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/music/28simo.html | title=How Do You Move a Career Into High Gear? By Breaking the Rules | website=The New York Times | first=Anne| last=Midgette | date=28 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> At age 15 she auditioned in London with [[Maria Curcio]], a student of [[Artur Schnabel]] – on this trip she also met her future husband, Jeremy Greensmith – and at age 18 she dropped out of The [[Juilliard School]] of Music to study in London with Curcio for six years.<ref name="Midgette1"/> She later attended Juilliard and was a student of [[Peter Serkin]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20070316_Abundant_Bach.html | title=Back-to-back Bach | website=The Philadelphia Inquirer | first=Robert| last=Strauss | date=16 March 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070321192651/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20070316_Abundant_Bach.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-21}}</ref>
Dinnerstein was born in [[New York City|New York]], United States to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Renee and [[Simon Dinnerstein]].<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/simone-dinnerstein-variations-on-music-stardom/ |title=Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom |publisher=CBS News |date=2011-01-23 |access-date=2015-02-19}}</ref> She studied in the pre-college program at the [[Manhattan School of Music]] with Solomon Mikowsky.<ref name="Midgette1">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/28/arts/music/28simo.html | title=How Do You Move a Career Into High Gear? By Breaking the Rules | website=The New York Times | first=Anne| last=Midgette | date=28 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> At age 15 she auditioned in London with [[Maria Curcio]], a student of [[Artur Schnabel]] – on this trip she also met her future husband, Jeremy Greensmith – and at age 18 she dropped out of The [[Juilliard School]] of Music to study in London with Curcio for six years.<ref name="Midgette1"/> She later attended Juilliard and was a student of [[Peter Serkin]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20070316_Abundant_Bach.html | title=Back-to-back Bach | website=The Philadelphia Inquirer | first=Robert| last=Strauss | date=16 March 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08 |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20070321192651/http://www.philly.com/inquirer/weekend/20070316_Abundant_Bach.html <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archivedate = 2007-03-21}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==

===Goldberg Variations===
===Goldberg Variations===
When the [[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]] label released the self-financed recording of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'' (Telarc CD-80692), her career was "launched into the stratosphere" with the album outselling [[The White Stripes]] on Amazon.com.<ref name="Jayson Greene Emusic.com review"/><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2172856/ | title=The Goldberg Variations Made New | publisher=''Slate'' | first=Evan| last=Eisenberg | date=27 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> In its first week of commercial release, the recording was at No.1 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' classical music CD sales chart.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2172856/ | title=Simone Dinnerstein's Acclaimed New Goldbergs Land at No. 1 on Billboard Classical Chart | publisher=''Playbill Arts'' | first=Matthew| last=Westphal | date=7 September 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> The disc appeared on a number of “Best of 2007” lists, including those of ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Time Out New York]]'', several radio stations, iTunes “Editor’s Choice Best Classical,” Amazon.com Best CDs of 2007, and [[Barnes & Noble]]'s Top 5 Debut CDs of 2007.
When in 2007 the [[Telarc International Corporation|Telarc]] label released her self-financed recording of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]]'s ''[[Goldberg Variations]]'' (Telarc CD-80692), her career was "launched into the stratosphere", with the album outselling ''[[The White Stripes]]'' on Amazon.com.<ref name="Jayson Greene Emusic.com review"/><ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2172856/ | title=The Goldberg Variations Made New | magazine=Slate | first=Evan| last=Eisenberg | date=27 August 2007 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref> In its first week of commercial release, the recording was at No.1 on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' classical music CD sales chart.<ref>{{cite magazine | url=http://www.slate.com/id/2172856/ | title=Simone Dinnerstein's Acclaimed New Goldbergs Land at No. 1 on Billboard Classical Chart | magazine=Playbill Arts | first=Matthew| last=Westphal | date=7 September 2007 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref> The disc appeared on a number of “Best of 2007” lists, including those of ''[[The New York Times]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Time Out New York]]'', several radio stations, iTunes “Editor’s Choice Best Classical,” Amazon.com Best CDs of 2007, and [[Barnes & Noble]]'s Top 5 Debut CDs of 2007.


===Subsequent work===
===Subsequent work===
To follow up on her success, Dinnerstein recorded a recital live at the [[Berlin Philharmonie]], on November 22, 2007. The program included [[Aaron Copland]]'s "Piano Variations," and [[Anton Webern]]'s “Variations" – neither of which was to be included on the concert CD. She then focused on three Bach-related works to be included on the CD, [[J. S. Bach|Bach]]'s [[French Suites]] No. 5 in G ([[BWV]] 816); the premiere recording of ''Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach'' by the American composer [[Philip Lasser]] (b. 1963), and the [[Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata no. 32, op. 111]], by [[Beethoven]] (with a first movement that makes extensive use of [[fugal]] textures reminiscent of Bach). The recording was released by Telarc on August 26, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019MFY7W |title=SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: Berlin Concert: Music |publisher=Amazon.com |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref>
To follow up on her success, Dinnerstein recorded a recital live at the [[Berlin Philharmonie]], on November 22, 2007. The program included [[Aaron Copland]]'s "Piano Variations," and [[Anton Webern]]'s “Variations" – neither of which was to be included on the concert CD. She next focused on three Bach-related works to be included on the CD, [[J. S. Bach|Bach]]'s [[French Suites]] No. 5 in G ([[BWV]] 816); the premiere recording of ''Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach'' by the American composer [[Philip Lasser]] (b. 1963), and the [[Piano Sonata No. 32 (Beethoven)|Piano Sonata no. 32, op. 111]], by [[Beethoven]] (with a first movement that makes extensive use of [[fugal]] textures reminiscent of Bach). The recording was released by Telarc on August 26, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0019MFY7W |title=SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: Berlin Concert: Music |website=Amazon |date= |access-date=2015-02-19}}</ref>


In addition to her solo recital work,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/arts/music/22simo.html?ex=1189396800&en=b90d028aabaa1e7f&ei=5070 | title=Covering Copland to Beethoven, by Way of Bach and Schumann | website=The New York Times | first=Allan| last=Kozinn | date=22 November 2006 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> she has been a featured guest artist at the [[Bard Music Festival]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/arts/music/16bard.html?ex=1189396800&en=09f0a088d4fe9c1c&ei=5070 | title=American Music Thrives Not on Copland Alone | website=The New York Times | first=Anne| last=Midgette | date=16 August 2005 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/arts/music/24bard.html?ei=5070&en=21f47fb252b639ac&ex=1189396800&pagewanted=all | title=Fanfare for Copland, Who Wasn't Always a Common Man | website=The New York Times | first=Jeremy| last=Eichler | date=24 August 2005 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/arts/music/14edwa.html?ex=1189396800&en=e026736fb992cb8f&ei=5070 | title=Reputation Isn’t Fixed. Sometimes You Hear It Grow | website=The New York Times | first=Anthony| last=Tommasini | date=14 August 2007 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> In addition, she has appeared as a chamber musician in performances of contemporary music, including works of [[Yehudi Wyner]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04EEDC143CF93AA35751C1A961958260 | title=New Horn Trio Receives Premieres in Eight Places
In addition to her solo recital work,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/22/arts/music/22simo.html?ex=1189396800&en=b90d028aabaa1e7f&ei=5070 | title=Covering Copland to Beethoven, by Way of Bach and Schumann | website=The New York Times | first=Allan| last=Kozinn | date=22 November 2006 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> she has been a featured guest artist at the [[Bard Music Festival]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/16/arts/music/16bard.html?ex=1189396800&en=09f0a088d4fe9c1c&ei=5070 | title=American Music Thrives Not on Copland Alone | website=The New York Times | first=Anne| last=Midgette | date=16 August 2005 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/24/arts/music/24bard.html?ei=5070&en=21f47fb252b639ac&ex=1189396800&pagewanted=all | title=Fanfare for Copland, Who Wasn't Always a Common Man | website=The New York Times | first=Jeremy| last=Eichler | date=24 August 2005 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/arts/music/14edwa.html?ex=1189396800&en=e026736fb992cb8f&ei=5070 | title=Reputation Isn't Fixed. Sometimes You Hear It Grow | website=The New York Times | first=Anthony| last=Tommasini | date=14 August 2007 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref> In addition, she has appeared as a chamber musician in performances of contemporary music, including works of [[Yehudi Wyner]]<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04EEDC143CF93AA35751C1A961958260 | title=New Horn Trio Receives Premieres in Eight Places
| website=The New York Times | first=Allan| last=Kozinn | date=9 December 1997 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref> and [[Ned Rorem]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E1DE143DF933A15751C0A96F958260 | title=For Rorem, a Concert With Overtones of Mourning | website=The New York Times | first=Anthony| last=Tommasini | date=20 February 1999 | accessdate=2007-09-08}}</ref>
| website=The New York Times | first=Allan| last=Kozinn | date=9 December 1997 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref> and [[Ned Rorem]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9404E1DE143DF933A15751C0A96F958260 | title=For Rorem, a Concert With Overtones of Mourning | website=The New York Times | first=Anthony| last=Tommasini | date=20 February 1999 | access-date=2007-09-08}}</ref>


Dinnerstein has toured as piano soloist with the [[Dresden Philharmonic]] and [[Czech Philharmonic]]. She has performed with the [[Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra]], the [[New Jersey Symphony Orchestra]], New York City's [[Orchestra of St. Luke's]], the [[New York Philharmonic]], and the Absolute Ensemble.
Dinnerstein has toured as piano soloist with the [[Dresden Philharmonic]] and [[Czech Philharmonic]]. She has performed with the [[Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra]], the [[Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra]], the [[New Jersey Symphony Orchestra]], New York City's [[Orchestra of St. Luke's]], the [[New York Philharmonic]], and the Absolute Ensemble.


===Signed with Sony Classical===
===Signed with Sony Classical===
In 2010, Simone Dinnerstein signed with [[Sony Classical]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/simone-dinnerstein-signs-to-sony | title=Simone Dinnerstein signs to Sony | publisher=''Gramophone'' | date=14 January 2010 | accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref> and in January 2011, she released her first album on the label entitled ''Bach: A Strange Beauty.'' In its first week of commercial release, the recording made its debut at No.1 on the ''Billboard'' Traditional Classical Chart.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://bayridgejournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/bach-strange-beauty-debuts-at-no-1.html | title=Bach: A Strange Beauty Debuts at No. 1 | publisher=''Bay Ridge Journal'' | date=27 January 2011 | accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref> ''Bach: A Strange Beauty'' also spent time as the No.1 top selling album on [[Barnesandnoble.com]] and No.2 selling album on [[Amazon.com]], in good company with [[The Decemberists]], [[Cake (band)|Cake]], [[The Black Keys]] and [[Bruno Mars]]. Dinnerstein was also featured on [[CBS Sunday Morning]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/01/23/sunday/main7274692.shtml | title=Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom | publisher=''CBS Sunday Morning'' | date=23 January 2011 | accessdate=2011-08-12}}</ref> Her second Sony Classical album, ''Something Almost Being Said: Music of Bach and Schubert,'' was released in January 2012.
In 2010, Simone Dinnerstein signed with [[Sony Classical]]<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.gramophone.co.uk/classical-music-news/simone-dinnerstein-signs-to-sony | title=Simone Dinnerstein signs to Sony | publisher=Gramophone | date=14 January 2010 | access-date=2011-08-12}}</ref> and in January 2011, she released her first album on the label, entitled ''Bach: A Strange Beauty.'' In its first week of commercial release, the recording made its debut at No.1 on the ''Billboard'' Traditional Classical Chart.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://bayridgejournal.blogspot.com/2011/01/bach-strange-beauty-debuts-at-no-1.html | title=Bach: A Strange Beauty Debuts at No. 1 | publisher=Bay Ridge Journal | date=27 January 2011 | access-date=2011-08-12}}</ref> ''Bach: A Strange Beauty'' also spent time as the No.1 top selling album on [[Barnesandnoble.com]] and No.2 selling album on [[Amazon.com]], in good company with [[The Decemberists]], [[Cake (band)|Cake]], [[The Black Keys]] and [[Bruno Mars]]. Dinnerstein was also featured on [[CBS Sunday Morning]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/simone-dinnerstein-variations-on-music-stardom/ | title=Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom | publisher=CBS Sunday Morning | date=23 January 2011 | access-date=2011-08-12}}</ref> Her second Sony Classical album, ''Something Almost Being Said: Music of Bach and Schubert,'' was released in January 2012.


In 2013, Dinnerstein released a Sony album with singer-songwriter [[Tift Merritt]] called ''Night''.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/simone-dinnerstein-and-tift-merritt-two-musical-worlds-connect-as-one/ |title=Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt: Two musical worlds connect as one |publisher=CBS News |date=2013-03-11 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> That year she also released on Sony an album called ''Bach Re-Invented'', which interspersed Bach with new compositions based on Bach by Daniel Schnyder (a Swiss composer and jazz saxophonist and flutist), Tom Trapp, and [[Gene Pritsker]]; on the album, the Absolute Ensemble was conducted by [[Kristjan Järvi]].<ref>{{cite web|first=James|last=Manheim |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-re-invented-mw0002543690 |title=Bach Re-Invented – Absolute Ensemble, Simone Dinnerstein, Kristjan Järvi &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |publisher=AllMusic |date=2013-06-04 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref>
In 2013, Dinnerstein released a Sony album with singer-songwriter [[Tift Merritt]] called ''Night''.<ref>{{cite web|author= |url=http://www.cbsnews.com/news/simone-dinnerstein-and-tift-merritt-two-musical-worlds-connect-as-one/ |title=Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt: Two musical worlds connect as one |publisher=CBS News |date=2013-03-11 |access-date=2015-02-19}}</ref> That year she also released on Sony an album called ''Bach Re-Invented'', which interspersed Bach with new compositions based on Bach by Daniel Schnyder (a Swiss composer and jazz saxophonist and flutist), Tom Trapp, and [[Gene Pritsker]]; on the album, the Absolute Ensemble was conducted by [[Kristjan Järvi]].<ref>{{cite web|first=James|last=Manheim |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/bach-re-invented-mw0002543690 |title=Bach Re-Invented – Absolute Ensemble, Simone Dinnerstein, Kristjan Järvi &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards |website=AllMusic |date=2013-06-04 |access-date=2015-02-19}}</ref>


In 2014, Sony released Dinnerstein's recording of Bach's [[Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach)|Inventions and Sinfonias]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/classical-playlist-simone-dinnerstein-avi-avital-mark-padmore-and-more/|title=Classical Playlist : Simone Dinnerstein...|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|accessdate=19 February 2015}}</ref>
In 2014, Sony released Dinnerstein's recording of Bach's [[Inventions and Sinfonias (Bach)|Inventions and Sinfonias]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/01/08/classical-playlist-simone-dinnerstein-avi-avital-mark-padmore-and-more/|title=Classical Playlist : Simone Dinnerstein...|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=8 January 2014 |access-date=19 February 2015}}</ref>


In February 2015, Sony released a recording featuring Dinnerstein as soloist, entitled ''Broadway-Lafayette''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/broadway-lafayette-ravel-lasser-gershwin-mw0002807217/credits |title=Broadway-Lafayette: Ravel, Lasser, Gershwin – Simone Dinnerstein |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |date=2015-02-09 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> It includes three works: the Piano Concerto of [[Maurice Ravel]]; the [[Rhapsody in Blue]] of [[George Gershwin]]; and a new concerto composed for her in 2012 by [[Philip Lasser]] entitled ''The Circle and the Child: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra'', which was inspired by a chorale of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], ''Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohen Lüfte.'' On the recording, Dinnerstein is accompanied by the [[MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Kristjan Järvi]].
In February 2015, Sony released a recording featuring Dinnerstein as soloist, entitled ''Broadway-Lafayette''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/broadway-lafayette-ravel-lasser-gershwin-mw0002807217/credits |title=Broadway-Lafayette: Ravel, Lasser, Gershwin – Simone Dinnerstein |website=[[AllMusic]] |date=2015-02-09 |access-date=2015-02-19}}</ref> It includes three works: the Piano Concerto of [[Maurice Ravel]]; the [[Rhapsody in Blue]] of [[George Gershwin]]; and a new concerto composed for her in 2012 by [[Philip Lasser]] entitled ''The Circle and the Child: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra'', which was inspired by a chorale of [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], ''Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohen Lüfte.'' On the recording, Dinnerstein is accompanied by the [[MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra]] conducted by [[Kristjan Järvi]].


==Personal life==
==Personal life==
A former piano teacher, Dinnerstein resides in the [[Park Slope]] section of [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref name="Jayson Greene Emusic.com review">{{cite web|url=http://www.emusic.com/album/Simone-Dinnerstein-The-Berlin-Concert-MP3-Download/11271229.html |title=Download The Berlin Concert by Simone Dinnerstein |publisher=eMusic |date=2008-08-26 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> Her husband, former British journalist Jeremy Greensmith,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2008/11/classical_2.html |title=Pianist Dinnerstein rises from obscurity with unorthodox performances and methods |publisher=NJ.com |date=2008-11-26 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> teaches fifth grade at the New York elementary school P.S. 321. Among the students at the school is Dinnerstein's and Greensmith's son Adrian.<ref name="Midgette1"/> Dinnerstein's mother, Renee Dinnerstein, taught early childhood education at P.S. 321 for eighteen years and now runs the popular blog, Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration and Play.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Renée Dinnerstein|url=http://investigatingchoicetime.com/about/|publisher=Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration, and Play|accessdate=17 May 2014}}</ref>
A former piano teacher, Dinnerstein resides in the [[Park Slope]] section of [[Brooklyn]], New York.<ref name="Jayson Greene Emusic.com review">{{cite web|url=http://www.emusic.com/album/Simone-Dinnerstein-The-Berlin-Concert-MP3-Download/11271229.html |title=Download The Berlin Concert by Simone Dinnerstein |publisher=eMusic |date=2008-08-26 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> Her husband, former British journalist Jeremy Greensmith,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nj.com/entertainment/music/index.ssf/2008/11/classical_2.html |title=Pianist Dinnerstein rises from obscurity with unorthodox performances and methods |work=NJ.com |date=2008-11-26 |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref> teaches fifth grade at the New York elementary school P.S. 321. Among the students at the school was Dinnerstein's and Greensmith's son Adrian.<ref name="Midgette1"/> Dinnerstein's mother, Renee Dinnerstein, taught early childhood education at P.S. 321 for eighteen years and now runs the blog "Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration and Play".<ref>{{cite web|title=About Renée Dinnerstein|date=September 2010 |url=http://investigatingchoicetime.com/about/|publisher=Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration, and Play|accessdate=17 May 2014}}</ref>


Dinnerstein's father, [[Simon Dinnerstein]], is an artist, as is her uncle, [[Harvey Dinnerstein]].<ref name="fatherbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.simondinnerstein.com/chronology.html |title=Simon Dinnerstein |publisher=Simon Dinnerstein |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref>
Dinnerstein's father, [[Simon Dinnerstein]], is an artist, as was her uncle, [[Harvey Dinnerstein]].<ref name="fatherbio">{{cite web|url=http://www.simondinnerstein.com/chronology.html |title=Simon Dinnerstein |publisher=Simon Dinnerstein |date= |accessdate=2015-02-19}}</ref>

Dinnerstein is best friends with Robin Quivers.


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.simonedinnerstein.com/ Simone Dinnerstein's official website]
* {{official website}}
* [http://www.imgartists.com/?page=artist&id=773&c=2 Full Biography] from [[IMG Artists]]
* {{cite web |url= https://imgartists.com/roster/simone-dinnerstein/ |title= Simone Dinnerstein |series= Biography |date= 24 April 2019 |publisher= [[IMG Artists]] }}
* {{cite web |url= http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/bach_project/simone_dinnerstein |title= Bach Project - Simone Dinnerstein |date= 2010 |publisher= [[Michael Lawrence (filmmaker)|Michael Lawrence]] Films }}
* [http://www.classicalarchives.com/feature/simone_dinnerstein_interview.html Classical Archives Interview]
* {{cite web |url= http://www.classicalarchives.com/feature/simone_dinnerstein_interview.html |title=
* [http://watch.njtvonline.org/video/2188638718 Simone Dinnerstein, Pianist] Documentary produced by [[NJTV]]
Exclusive Interview with Simone Dinnerstein |first= Nolan |last= Gasser |date= Jan 18, 2011 |publisher= [[Classical Archives]] }}
* [http://www.mlfilms.com/productions/bach_project/simone_dinnerstein BACH & friends Documentary ]
* {{cite web |url= https://www.njtvonline.org/programs/nj-pbs-specials/emerge-part-1-an-njso-concert-film-5oehqt/ |title= EMERGE Part 1: An NJSO Concert Film |date= Aug 11, 2021 |publisher= [[NJTV]] }}
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Simone Dinnerstein

Simone Andrea Dinnerstein (/ˈdɪnərˌstiːn/)[1][2] (born September 18, 1972)[3] is an American classical pianist.

Education

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Dinnerstein was born in New York, United States to a Jewish family. She is the daughter of Renee and Simon Dinnerstein.[4] She studied in the pre-college program at the Manhattan School of Music with Solomon Mikowsky.[5] At age 15 she auditioned in London with Maria Curcio, a student of Artur Schnabel – on this trip she also met her future husband, Jeremy Greensmith – and at age 18 she dropped out of The Juilliard School of Music to study in London with Curcio for six years.[5] She later attended Juilliard and was a student of Peter Serkin.[6]

Career

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Goldberg Variations

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When in 2007 the Telarc label released her self-financed recording of Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations (Telarc CD-80692), her career was "launched into the stratosphere", with the album outselling The White Stripes on Amazon.com.[7][8] In its first week of commercial release, the recording was at No.1 on the Billboard classical music CD sales chart.[9] The disc appeared on a number of “Best of 2007” lists, including those of The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, several radio stations, iTunes “Editor’s Choice Best Classical,” Amazon.com Best CDs of 2007, and Barnes & Noble's Top 5 Debut CDs of 2007.

Subsequent work

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To follow up on her success, Dinnerstein recorded a recital live at the Berlin Philharmonie, on November 22, 2007. The program included Aaron Copland's "Piano Variations," and Anton Webern's “Variations" – neither of which was to be included on the concert CD. She next focused on three Bach-related works to be included on the CD, Bach's French Suites No. 5 in G (BWV 816); the premiere recording of Twelve Variations on a Chorale by J. S. Bach by the American composer Philip Lasser (b. 1963), and the Piano Sonata no. 32, op. 111, by Beethoven (with a first movement that makes extensive use of fugal textures reminiscent of Bach). The recording was released by Telarc on August 26, 2008.[10]

In addition to her solo recital work,[11] she has been a featured guest artist at the Bard Music Festival.[12][13][14] In addition, she has appeared as a chamber musician in performances of contemporary music, including works of Yehudi Wyner[15] and Ned Rorem.[16]

Dinnerstein has toured as piano soloist with the Dresden Philharmonic and Czech Philharmonic. She has performed with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, New York City's Orchestra of St. Luke's, the New York Philharmonic, and the Absolute Ensemble.

Signed with Sony Classical

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In 2010, Simone Dinnerstein signed with Sony Classical[17] and in January 2011, she released her first album on the label, entitled Bach: A Strange Beauty. In its first week of commercial release, the recording made its debut at No.1 on the Billboard Traditional Classical Chart.[18] Bach: A Strange Beauty also spent time as the No.1 top selling album on Barnesandnoble.com and No.2 selling album on Amazon.com, in good company with The Decemberists, Cake, The Black Keys and Bruno Mars. Dinnerstein was also featured on CBS Sunday Morning.[19] Her second Sony Classical album, Something Almost Being Said: Music of Bach and Schubert, was released in January 2012.

In 2013, Dinnerstein released a Sony album with singer-songwriter Tift Merritt called Night.[20] That year she also released on Sony an album called Bach Re-Invented, which interspersed Bach with new compositions based on Bach by Daniel Schnyder (a Swiss composer and jazz saxophonist and flutist), Tom Trapp, and Gene Pritsker; on the album, the Absolute Ensemble was conducted by Kristjan Järvi.[21]

In 2014, Sony released Dinnerstein's recording of Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias.[22]

In February 2015, Sony released a recording featuring Dinnerstein as soloist, entitled Broadway-Lafayette.[23] It includes three works: the Piano Concerto of Maurice Ravel; the Rhapsody in Blue of George Gershwin; and a new concerto composed for her in 2012 by Philip Lasser entitled The Circle and the Child: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, which was inspired by a chorale of Johann Sebastian Bach, Ihr Gestirn, ihr hohen Lüfte. On the recording, Dinnerstein is accompanied by the MDR Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Kristjan Järvi.

Personal life

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A former piano teacher, Dinnerstein resides in the Park Slope section of Brooklyn, New York.[7] Her husband, former British journalist Jeremy Greensmith,[24] teaches fifth grade at the New York elementary school P.S. 321. Among the students at the school was Dinnerstein's and Greensmith's son Adrian.[5] Dinnerstein's mother, Renee Dinnerstein, taught early childhood education at P.S. 321 for eighteen years and now runs the blog "Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration and Play".[25]

Dinnerstein's father, Simon Dinnerstein, is an artist, as was her uncle, Harvey Dinnerstein.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Deanna Selene. "An Interview with Concert Pianist Simone Dinnerstein". Combustus. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ^ Lance G. Hill (2018-08-16). "About pronouncing "steen" or "stine" ..." The Classical Music Guide Forums. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. ^ a b "Simon Dinnerstein". Simon Dinnerstein. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  4. ^ "Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom". CBS News. 2011-01-23. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  5. ^ a b c Midgette, Anne (28 August 2007). "How Do You Move a Career Into High Gear? By Breaking the Rules". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  6. ^ Strauss, Robert (16 March 2007). "Back-to-back Bach". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Archived from the original on 2007-03-21. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  7. ^ a b "Download The Berlin Concert by Simone Dinnerstein". eMusic. 2008-08-26. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  8. ^ Eisenberg, Evan (27 August 2007). "The Goldberg Variations Made New". Slate. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  9. ^ Westphal, Matthew (7 September 2007). "Simone Dinnerstein's Acclaimed New Goldbergs Land at No. 1 on Billboard Classical Chart". Playbill Arts. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  10. ^ "SIMONE DINNERSTEIN: Berlin Concert: Music". Amazon. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  11. ^ Kozinn, Allan (22 November 2006). "Covering Copland to Beethoven, by Way of Bach and Schumann". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  12. ^ Midgette, Anne (16 August 2005). "American Music Thrives Not on Copland Alone". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  13. ^ Eichler, Jeremy (24 August 2005). "Fanfare for Copland, Who Wasn't Always a Common Man". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  14. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (14 August 2007). "Reputation Isn't Fixed. Sometimes You Hear It Grow". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  15. ^ Kozinn, Allan (9 December 1997). "New Horn Trio Receives Premieres in Eight Places". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  16. ^ Tommasini, Anthony (20 February 1999). "For Rorem, a Concert With Overtones of Mourning". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-09-08.
  17. ^ "Simone Dinnerstein signs to Sony". Gramophone. 14 January 2010. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  18. ^ "Bach: A Strange Beauty Debuts at No. 1". Bay Ridge Journal. 27 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  19. ^ "Simone Dinnerstein: Variations on Music Stardom". CBS Sunday Morning. 23 January 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-12.
  20. ^ "Simone Dinnerstein and Tift Merritt: Two musical worlds connect as one". CBS News. 2013-03-11. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  21. ^ Manheim, James (2013-06-04). "Bach Re-Invented – Absolute Ensemble, Simone Dinnerstein, Kristjan Järvi | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  22. ^ "Classical Playlist : Simone Dinnerstein..." The New York Times. 8 January 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2015.
  23. ^ "Broadway-Lafayette: Ravel, Lasser, Gershwin – Simone Dinnerstein". AllMusic. 2015-02-09. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  24. ^ "Pianist Dinnerstein rises from obscurity with unorthodox performances and methods". NJ.com. 2008-11-26. Retrieved 2015-02-19.
  25. ^ "About Renée Dinnerstein". Investigating Choice Time: Inquiry, Exploration, and Play. September 2010. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
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