Jeremy Denk, piano

Jeremy Denk plays the Perelman Theater at the Kimmel Center on Wednesday, January 13, 2027. It's a solo recital, part of the Elaine Kligerman Piano Recital Series, which the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society uses as its home for solo recitals by leading pianists. Denk is one of the country's most recognized pianists, a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow and Avery Fisher Prize winner, and a New York Times bestselling author. He's also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

The program spans a wide stretch of time and style. He opens with selected Études by Hélène de Montgeroult, a French composer who worked across the gap between the Classical and Romantic eras. Then comes Beethoven's Sonata in D Minor Op. 31 No. 2, better known as The Tempest. After that, he moves to the contemporary: Études No. 1-6 by Unsuk Chin, the Korean-born composer. He closes with Beethoven's Sonata in A-flat Major Op. 110. It's a program that puts the two Beethoven sonatas in conversation with etudes from two very different centuries.

If you're the kind of person who likes to get a bit of context before the music starts, there's a pre-concert talk by Lesley Valdes at 6:30 PM in Comcast Circle, an hour before the recital begins. The concert itself runs about an hour and 45 minutes, including intermission. The Perelman Theater is at 300 South Broad Street, and the music starts at 7:30 PM.