Name: Jeremy Denk, piano
Start: 2023-02-12T15:00:00
Location: University of California, Berkeley

Jeremy Denk

Cal Performances

“A pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs” (The New York Times), Jeremy Denk returns to Berkeley with an artfully curated recital of American-inspired music paired with canonic works by Bach, Beethoven, and Schubert. Denk is known for bringing fresh perspective to a staggering range of repertoire, from medieval to contemporary. Two works here celebrate Black American vernacular composers whose music rarely gets its due on concert stages: “Blind Tom” Wiggins’ The Battle of Manassas and Scott Joplin and Louis Chauvin’s Heliotrope Bouquet. British composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s They Will Not Lend Me a Child reflects his interest in Black American spirituals; and Frederic Rzewski’s “Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues” is a movement from his Four North American Ballads, based on American folk and protest songs.

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Jeremy Denk, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Four Impromptus

Partita No. 5 in G major

The Battle of Manassas

Heliotrope Bouquet

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

They Will Not Lend Me a Child

Piano Sonata No. 32