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Katharina Sommer

Assistant Manager: Touring & Artists
Adelaide Docx

Adelaide Docx

Associate Director & Manager, Artists

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European management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

About Jeremy

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by the New York Times as "a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs". Also a New York Times bestselling author, Jeremy 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 2024/25 season, Jeremy continues his collaboration with longtime musical partners Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, with performances at the Tsindali Festival and Wigmore Hall, following on from his multi-concert artist residency at the Wigmore in 2023/24. He also returns to the Lammermuir Festival in multiple performances, including the complete Ives violin sonatas with Maria Wloszczowska, and a solo recital featuring female composers from the past to the present day. He performs this same solo programme on tour across the US, as well as continuing his exploration of Bach in ongoing performances of the complete Partitas. Jeremy 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 will release a collection of his Ives recordings later this year.

Highlights of Jeremy's 2023/24 season included premiering a new concerto written for him by Anna Clyne, co-commissioned and performed by the Dallas Symphony led by Fabio Luisi, the City of Birmingham Symphony led by Kazuki Yamada, and the New Jersey Symphony led by Markus Stenz. He also reunited with Krzysztof Urbański to perform with the Antwerp Symphony, and with the Danish String Quartet for their festival Series of Four.

Jeremy has performed frequently at Carnegie Hall, and in recent years has worked with such orchestras as Chicago Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony. Meanwhile, he has performed multiple times at the BBC Proms and Klavierfestival Ruhr, and appeared in such halls as the Köln Philharmonie, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Boulez Saal in Berlin. He has also performed extensively across the UK, including recently with the London Philharmonic, Bournemouth Symphony, City of Birmingham Symphony, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Denk is also known for his original and insightful writing on music, which Alex Ross praises for its “arresting sensitivity and wit.” His New York Times Bestselling memoir, Every Good Boy Does Fine was published to universal acclaim by Random House in 2022. Meanwhile, his latest album of Mozart piano concertos was deemed “urgent and essential” by BBC Radio 3, while his recording of the Goldberg Variations reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts.

Jeremy is based in New York City and San Francisco

Representation

European management with Askonas Holt

Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)

Season Highlights

Jun 2024
Bravo!Vail Festival
Anna Clyne: Piano concerto ATLAS Dallas Symphony Fabio Luisi (conductor)
Jul 2024
Aspen Festival
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.27 in E minor, Op.90 Joplin Bethena: a concert waltz Gottschalk: The Banjo, Op.15 Simone: Just in Time William Bolcom: The Poltergeist from Three Ghost Rags Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31 in A-flat major, Op.110 Ives: Piano Sonata No.2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60”
Aug 2024
Seiji Ozawa Hall, Tanglewood
Jeremy Denk performs The Battle of Manassas by ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins and Ives' Concord Sonata

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Selected Repertoire

AdamsMust the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
BachKeyboard Concertos, BWV 1052–1065
BartókPiano Concerto No.2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101   •   Piano Concerto No.3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 12
BeethovenPiano Concertos, Nos 1-5
BrahmsPiano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15   •   Piano Concerto No.2 in B♭ major, Op.83
ClyneATLAS (written for Jeremy Denk, 2024)
MendelssohnPiano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
MessiaenOiseaux Exotiques
MozartPiano concerto No.13 in C major, K415   •   Piano Concerto No.19 in F major, K459   •   Piano concerto No.20 in D minor, K466   •   Piano concerto No.21 in C major, K467   •   Piano concerto No.23 in A major, K488   •   Piano concerto No.25 in C major, K503   •   Piano concerto No.27 in B♭ major, K595
RachmaninovPiano concerto No.3
RavelPiano concerto in G major   •   Piano concerto for the Left Hand
SchumannPiano concerto in A minor, Op.54

Sample Programmes

  • Programme 1

    Ravel: Sonatine Mozart: Sonata in A Minor Ravel: Gaspard de le Nuit Bach: Toccata in F# Minor Mazzoli: Heartbreaker Ligeti: Devil’s Staircase Beethoven: Op.110

  • Programme 2

    Ligeti: Etudes Bach: Goldberg Variations

News

Press

  • Anna Clyne Piano Concerto, City of Birminghan Symphony conducted by Kazuki Yamada

    Symphony Hall, Birmingham
    May 2024
    • The quicksilver changes of mood and direction are mostly prompted by the extrovert piano writing, projected with real wit by Denk.