Simone Dinnerstein is a distinctive musical voice. The Washington Post has called this GRAMMY-nominated pianist “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity,” and all thirteen of her albums have topped the Billboard classical charts. Dinnerstein makes her much anticipated Newport debut in the 2023 Festival Opening Night concert at The Breakers.
Her passionate and nuanced program features music from her 2022 album Undersong, the third in a trilogy of albums she recorded at home during the pandemic. Dinnerstein says, “Undersong is an archaic term for a song with a refrain, and to me it also suggests a hidden text. Glass, Schumann, Couperin, and Satie all seem to be attempting to find what they want to say through repetition, as though their constant change and recycling will focus the ear and the mind. This time has been one of reflection and reconsidering for many of us, and this music speaks to the process of revisiting and searching for the meaning beneath the notes of the undersong.”Â
*Program subject to change. Full program notes available the week before the concert.
