Jeremy Denk on Evening Concert

Hawaiʻi Public Radio | By Craig DeSilva

Published October 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM HST

Pianist Jeremy Denk has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Bach’s partitas over his long career. But now, Bach’s set of dance pieces are here to stay. Denk performs all six partitas during a solo recital in a concert presented by Honolulu Chamber Music Series.

Evening Concert host Craig DeSilva talked to Denk about Bach playing at The Blue Note if he was alive today and about writing a new book on Beethoven’s mid-life crisis.

Pianist Jeremy Denk
The Complete (Six) Keyboard Partitas by J. S. Bach
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025 7:30 p.m.
Orvis Auditorium, University of Hawaii at Manoa

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Craig DeSilva

Craig DeSilva is glad to be playing recorded music on the air instead of playing for a live audience on stage as did when he studied piano. He began piano lessons when he was a child and continued piano studies at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (where he majored in broadcast journalism and minored in music) under the late Peter Coraggio.

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