Lark Chamber Artists
Special Guests:

Jeremy Denk, Piano
(by special arrangement with ICM®ARTISTS, LTD. 40 WEST 57TH STREET NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10019 • (212) 556-5600)
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 St. Louis, Houston, and San Francisco Symphonies next season, as well as 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 Emmanuel 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. Denk has participated in many premieres: Leon Kirchner’s Duo No. 2 (with violinist Ida Levin) at Marlboro in the summer of 2002; Ned Rorem’s “The Unquestioned Answer,” in the summer of 2003; Jake Heggie’s “Cut Time” in May 2001, with the Eos Orchestra; “Alternating Current,” a piece written for him by Kevin Puts, on his Kennedy Center recital; Mark O’Connor’s “Fiddle Sonata” (with the composer on fiddle) at the Library of Congress; and Libby Larsen’s “Collage: Boogie” at the Kennedy Center with the American-Soviet Youth Orchestra and Zubin Mehta. Solidly committed to chamber music, Denk has collaborated with several leading string quartets, among them the Borromeo, Brentano, Colorado and Shanghai, and has appeared at the Seattle Chamber Music Festival, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, 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. Currently he is collaborating with the violinist Joshua Bell, and they will appear in Carnegie Hall this upcoming season, 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 B. 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.