Aspen Music Festival: A Recital by Jeremy Denk, piano

Event Description

"Pianist Jeremy Denk is a 2013 winner of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, and Musical America’s 2014 Instrumentalist of the Year Award. Experience the brilliant artistry of the one the world’s most insightful and innovative pianists! Two Beethoven sonatas bookend the first half of the program, creating an American sandwich of sorts, with a potpourri of fillings by Joplin, Gottschalk, Simone, and Bolcom."

BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, op. 90
JOPLIN: Bethena, a concert waltz
GOTTSCHALK: The Banjo, op. 15
SIMONE: Just in Time
WILLIAM BOLCOM: The Poltergeist from Three Ghost Rags