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“An artist you want to hear no matter what he performs.”

The New York Times

“The most viscerally ­exciting, ­emotionally ­absorbing and ­intellectually rich ­account of Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto that I have ever heard in ­concert.”

Detroit Free Press

“One measure of how fully he is able to draw the listener into his own ­feeling of ­renewed discovery when playing the “Goldbergs” was how quietly and ­attentively the audience took in all 70 minutes of this opening recital of the Symphony ­Center Presents Piano Series, ­before breaking into sustained applause.”

Chicago Tribune

“American pianist Jeremy Denk has both – not to mention the fiendish technique and expressive iconoclasm you’d expect from one of today’s classical superstars.”

Guardian

“While touching on a vast range of moods, colors, and characteristics, Denk’s Bach across the length of the recital was unified by its richness of inner life. One had the feeling less of attending a performance than of listening in on a pianist playing, in the best sense, for himself.”

The Boston Globe

“With impish charm, he performed this ­grandest of Mozart concertos with light-hearted ­irreverence. Each note sounded fresh and alive, as if thought through anew…”

Washington Post

“An unerring sense of the music’s dramatic ­structure and a great actor’s intuition for ­timing, Denk was the provocateur who urged his ­colleagues to dare all, to unleash every calorie of emotional heat.”

Boston Globe

“As the antihero keyboard soloist, Denk’s poised luminous touch in the spare solo part was an ideal partner for the scrupulously detailed and laser-like orchestral playing led by Tilson Thomas.”

The Miami Herald

“What caught the ear most was the sensitive, spontaneous phrasing and the pearly quality of his tone when spinning out melodic lines.”

The ­Baltimore Sun

“In Bach’s English Suite No. 3, his jazzy ­tempos and crisp articulation brought fresh ­perspectives to the Prelude, Courante and ­Gavotte.”

South Florida Classical Review

“Denk is one of the finest pianists we’ve heard: clear, nuanced, sensitive to the orchestra he’s with — or the partner…Denk is that rare pianist who can produce volume without beating up his instrument.”

Naples Daily News

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, hailed by the New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs”, and celebrated for performances of vast imagination, beauty, profundity, and wit. A New York Times bestselling author, Denk is the recipient of both the MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In the 2026/27 season, Denk marks the bicentennial of Beethoven’s death with a series of recitals across the United States, including appearances at Boston’s Vivo Performing Arts, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and New York’s 92nd Y. The programs center on a selection of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas alongside works by Hélène de Montgeroult and Unsuk Chin. He also performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra, led by Michael Stern; Brahms’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Vancouver Symphony; and Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2, including performances with the St. Louis Symphony and Dinis Sousa.

Denk continues his longstanding relationship with Scotland’s Lammermuir Festival, where he performs a cycle of six Mozart Piano Concertos, Schubert’s Winterreise, and Janáček’s The Diary of One Who Disappeared. He also continues his collaboration with the Takács Quartet, with performances including at Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and Santa Monica’s BroadStage.

Denk performs frequently at Carnegie Hall, and has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony, and appeared in such halls as the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw, Wigmore Hall, and Boulez Saal. Denk has also performed extensively across the UK, appearing with the City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, and the Northern Sinfonia.

Denk is also celebrated for his original and insightful writings on music, which New Yorker critic Alex Ross praised for its “arresting sensitivity and wit.” His New York Times bestselling memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine was published to universal acclaim by Random House in 2022, with features on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He also wrote the libretto for a comic opera presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Aspen Festival, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung and on the front page of the New York Times Book Review.

Denk is known for his interpretations of the music of American visionary Charles Ives, and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Nonesuch Records released a collection of his Ives recordings in 2024. His album of Mozart piano concertos, released in 2021 on Nonesuch Records, was 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.

2026-2027