Jeremy Denk & The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Jeremy Denk was a 1998 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant and in 1997 won the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, both of which helped launch his national career as a recitalist and concerto soloist. He has appeared with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, and the London Philharmonia, among others, and makes his debuts with the symphony orchestras of Houston and San Francisco this season. He is also touring as soloist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, with which he will make his Carnegie Hall debut. He made his New York recital debut at Alice Tully Hall in April 1997 as the recipient of the Juilliard School’s Piano Debut Award, and since then has appeared regularly in recital in Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. This last summer he was called at the last minute to replace Emanuel Ax for two recitals at the Mostly Mozart Festival, performances which were acclaimed in both The New Yorker and the New York Times. This season includes a survey of all the Partitas of Bach, all-Beethoven programs, and the Berg Chamber Concerto. He has been a featured artist-in-residence on NPR’s Performance Today. Solidly committed to chamber music, Mr. Denk has collaborated with several leading string quartets, among them the Borromeo, Brentano, Colorado, and Shanghai ensembles, and has appeared at the Seattle and the Santa Fe chamber music festivals, and the Spoleto Festivals in Italy and Charleston, among others. He has spent six summers at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and been part of “Musicians from Marlboro” national tours. He has regularly collaborated with the violinist Joshua Bell, appearing in Carnegie Hall in March 2006, as well as in two performances at the Wigmore Hall Schubert Festival in May 2006. Mr. Denk is a member of the faculty of the Bard College Conservatory of Music. He received both a B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin College and a music degree from the Oberlin Conservatory, where he studied with Joseph Schwartz. He earned a master’s degree in music from Indiana University as a pupil of György Sebök, and a doctorate in piano performance from the Juilliard School, where he worked with Herbert Stessin. Jeremy Denk debuts with the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra this weekend.