Jeremy Denk – San Diego Story

The San Diego Symphony Offers a Magnificent ‘Firebird’ to Complete the 2023-24 Season at The Rady Shell

By Ken Herman | May 27, 2024 |

To complete the 2023-2024 season, San Diego Symphony Music Director Rafael Payare conducted the orchestra at the Rady Shell on Saturday in Igor Stravinsky’s complete ‘Firebird’ ballet and Beethoven’s Fourth Piano Concerto.

Michael Francis and Mainly Mozart Orchestra Illuminate Superb Mendelssohn Fifth Symphony

By Ken Herman | June 9, 2019 |

To headline Saturday’s opening concert of Mainly Mozart’s 2019 Festival Orchestra series, Music Director Michael Francis sagely featured pianist Jeremy Denk in a thrilling account of Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 467.

Bach und nach: Pianist Brad Mehldau in La Jolla

By Ken Herman | March 10, 2017 |

Jazz pianist and composer Brad Mehldau gave a remarkable recital of music by J. S. Bach interspersed with his own works and improvisations inspired by those of Bach . . .