About the Artist

One of America’s foremost pianists, Jeremy Denk has been honored with a 2013 MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship, the 2014 Avery Fisher Prize, and membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

“Denk’s virtuosity is a thrill” (Los Angeles Times). His “lyrical, playful, and intensely engaging” performances (Toronto Star) reveal “an unerring sense of the music’s dramatic structure and a great actor’s intuition for timing” (The Boston Globe).

“What Mr. Denk’s playing conveys most is an inclusive consideration of where each piece came from, what it reflects about its composer and how music connects to a life’s broader concerns…he is a pianist whose fresh insights in familiar territory warrant continued acquaintance” (The New York Times).

Concert Program

BACH Partita No. 5 in G major, BWV829

SCHUBERT Four Impromptus, D. 935

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR They Will Not Lend Me a Child

WIGGINS The Battle of Manassas

JOPLIN & CHAUVIN Heliotrope Bouquet

RZEWSKI Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues

BEETHOVEN Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111

Sponsors

Spivey Hall Friends Concert Sponsors:

Bob & Linda Schnapper and Jack & Susan Bertram

Spivey Hall gratefully acknowledges the generosity of our 2021-2022 Season Sponsors:

Audience Building Roundtable,
through The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Barney M. Franklin & Hugh W. Burke Charitable Fund,
through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta

Richard C. Owens Charitable Foundation