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Jeremy Denk

About this Artist

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, hailed by The New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs,” and celebrated for performances of vast imagination, beauty, profundity, and wit. A New York Times bestselling author, Denk is the recipient of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

In the 2025/26 season, Denk tours widely across North America with performances in New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Berkeley, and Austin, among others. In recital he continues to explore female composers from the past to the present, as well as the complete Bach Partitas. He also returns to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra to perform Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 at the 92nd Street Y in New York and reunites with his longtime collaborator Joshua Bell for performances at Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Ravinia Festival. Further afield, he embarks on a tour of South Korea with violist Richard O’Neill and performs at the Adam Chamber Music Festival in New Zealand in multiple concerts, including a performance of Schubert’s Die schöne Müllerin with tenor Colin Ainsworth.

Denk has performed frequently at Carnegie Hall, and in recent years he has worked with such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony, The Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony and appeared in such halls as the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boulez Saal in Berlin. Denk has also performed extensively across the UK, including with the Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and the Royal Northern Sinfonia.

Jeremy Denk is also celebrated for his original and insightful writing on music. His New York Times bestselling memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine, was published to acclaim by Random House in 2022. His writing has also appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and on the front page of The New York Times Book Review.

Denk is known for his interpretations of the music of American visionary Charles Ives, and in celebration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, Nonesuch Records released a collection of his Ives recordings in 2024.