American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has fast been gaining international attention as a commanding and charismatic artist, and as one of the most compelling women pianists performing today. Since being featured by The New York Times as an artist “poised for a breakthrough,” Ms. Dinnerstein has performed to a sold-out audience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, debuted with the American Symphony Orchestra under Leon Botstein and signed a recording contract with Telarc International, which released her much-anticipated recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations worldwide in August 2007. The CD earned the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart in its first week of sales and has remained highly ranked since then. It was called “precisely the kind of playing that the early 21st century most needs, infused as it is with a deep and pervasive sense of beauty and tenderness of heart which is often profoundly affecting,” by Piano Magazine.

Recent highlights include Ms. Dinnerstein’s debut recital at the Salle Cortot in and at the Copenhagen Music Festival, as well as the opening concert of the Moselfestwochen in Germany. During the 2007-2008 concert season, she gives debut recitals at London’s Wigmore Hall, Berlin’s Philharmonie, and at the National Philharmonic Hall in Vilnius. In New York, she will give recitals at Town Hall in April and at the Great Performers Series at Lincoln Center in May. She will tour with the Dresden Philharmonic under Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and with the Czech Philharmonic under Leoš Svárovský, and will perform with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Jerusalem. Ms. Dinnerstein and cellist Zuill Bailey performed the complete Beethoven Sonatas at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in October, and will repeat the program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in April. Highlights of fall 2008 include performances with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra and the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra. In the spring of 2009, Ms. Dinnerstein will make her recital debut at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

“Her harmonic intensity left an indelible mark on this mesmerized listener.” – American Record Guide