Jeremy Denk

piano

A 1998 recipient of the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Jeremy Denk also won the 1997 Young Concert Artists International Auditions. He has given recitals in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.; he has made numerous orchestral and festival appearances and been an artist-in-residence on NPR's "Performance Today". As a chamber musician, Mr. Denk has collaborated with several leading string quartets including the Borromeo, Brentano, Colorado and Shanghai. A regular participant at the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont and on national tours, he has participated in the Aspen, Bard, Bridgehampton, Caramoor and Spoleto (Italy) festivals, as well as at Ravinia's Steans Institute for Young Artists and on Ravinia's Rising Stars series. He has toured with clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and soprano Lisa Saffer, with violinist Robin Sharp, and with composer and violinist Mark O'Connor. His recording of Tobias Picker's Piano Concerto No. 2, "Keys to the City," with the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra was released by Chandos. Mr. Denk received both a B.A. in chemistry from Oberlin College and a B.M. in music 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 Gyorgy Sebok, and a doctorate from The Juilliard School, where he worked with Herbert Stessin. He serves on the faculty of Indiana University's School of Music.