JeremyDenk
- Piano


About Jeremy
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, 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 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 1 at the 92nd Y in New York, and reunites with his long-time collaborator, Joshua Bell, for performances at the Hollywood Bowl 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.
In the 2024/25 season, Denk continued his musical collaboration with Joshua Bell and Steven Isserlis, with performances at the Tsindali Festival and Wigmore Hall, following on from his multi-concert residency at the Wigmore. He also returned to the Lammermuir Festival in multiple performances, and to Klavierfestival Ruhr. Recent highlights also include premiering a new concerto written for him by Anna Clyne, co-commissioned 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. Further highlights include performances of John Adams’ Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? with the Cleveland Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony, and Seattle Symphony.
Denk 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, 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 Northern Sinfonia.
Denk is also celebrated 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, with features on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s Fresh Air, The New York Times, and The Guardian. He also wrote the libretto for a comic opera presented by Carnegie Hall, Cal Performances, and the Aspen Festival, and his writing has appeared in the New Yorker, New Republic, 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. His album of Mozart piano concertos, released in 2021 on Nonesuch Records, was deemed “urgent and essential” by BBC Radio 3. His recording of the Goldberg Variations for Nonesuch Records reached No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Charts, and his recording of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 111 paired with Ligeti’s Études was named one of the best discs of the year by the New Yorker, NPR, and the Washington Post, while his account of the Beethoven sonata was selected by BBC Radio 3’s Building a Library as the best available version recorded on modern piano.
Contact

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Representation
European management with Askonas Holt
Partner Managers:
Opus 3 Artists (general management)
Season Highlights
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Selected Repertoire
Adams
Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
Bach
Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1052–1065
Bartók
Piano Concerto No.2 in G major, Sz. 95, BB 101 • Piano Concerto No.3 in E major, Sz. 119, BB 12
Beethoven
Piano Concertos, Nos 1-5
Brahms
Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, Op.15 • Piano Concerto No.2 in B♭ major, Op.83
Clyne
ATLAS (written for Jeremy Denk, 2024)
Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Messiaen
Oiseaux Exotiques
Mozart
Piano 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
Rachmaninov
Piano concerto No.3
Ravel
Piano concerto in G major • Piano concerto for the Left Hand
Schumann
Piano 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, BirminghamMay 2024The quicksilver changes of mood and direction are mostly prompted by the extrovert piano writing, projected with real wit by Denk.
- The Guardian
- 02 May 2024
National Public Radio interview with Anna Clyne
Mar 2024The real nspiration was Jeremy Denk, who is an incredible musician, a virtuoso and a wonderful collaborator. His repertoire ranges from very early music to very contemporary music, so I was able to explore a lot of different styles through that process and write a piece tailored to him.
- NPR
- 27 March 2024
Celebrity Series recital
BostonDec 2023Denk’s artistry rests in how he explores emotional variance by leaning into the extremes. Embracing contradictions, and letting them linger, brings a freshness to his performances. He remains the thinker’s pianist: bold, sensitive, and cleverly adept at maneuvering between poles — even gendered ones.
- the arts fuse
- 15 December 2023
Oxford Piano Festival, Bach Partitas
OxfordAug 2023His ability to reveal the variety, the impish wit, the creativity in each of these dance-based works made them pass all too quickly. The majesty and grandeur of No 6, which Denk played with utmost control but also the freedom of an improvisation, was a spellbinding climax.
Barbican recital, Well-Tempered Klavier Book 1
Barbican, LondonDec 2022In May, Jeremy Denk played Book 1 of Bach’s monumental Well-Tempered Clavier with no music, no ceremony, no shy reverence. It was exhilarating, even transformative.
Lammermuir Festival
ScotlandSep 2022Denk was absolutely mesmerising in his playing here, some of the finest technical pianism I have heard, infused also with a great sense of humour.
- Seen and Heard International
- 09 September 2022
The Well-Tempered Klavier Book 1
Barbican, LondonMay 2022The Well-Tempered Clavier is a monument: still tackled by student pianists, but performed live in its entirety only by those with nerves of steel and a penchant for musical marathons. American pianist Jeremy Denk has both – not to mention the fiendish technique and expressive iconoclasm you’d expect from one of today’s classical superstars... familiar phrases were subtly reshaped in Denk’s hands and illuminated afresh.
- The Guardian
- 25 May 2022
Cleveland Orchestra, John Adams' Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes?
ClevelandFeb 2022One of the most thoughtful and reliably interesting artists of our time.
- cleveland.com
- 06 February 2022
The Well-Tempered Klavier Book 1, 92nd Y
New YorkDec 2021When the superb pianist Jeremy Denk did the first book [of The Well-Tempered Clavier] from memory at the 92nd Street Y this month, his performance was a reminder of how audaciously inventive and awesomely intricate, how fresh and startling, Bach’s music is.