Recitalist Series

Simone Dinnerstein, piano

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital
Sunday, October 18, 2026, 7:30 PM

Recitalist Series
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital

Simone Dinnerstein, piano
Sunday, October 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Sixth & I

Lauded by The Washington Post as “an artist of strikingly original ideas and irrefutable integrity,” Simone Dinnerstein returns to Washington Performing Arts for an evening of distinctive artistry at Sixth & I. The program opens with Rameau’s rarely performed Gavotte et six doubles, followed by American composer Philip Lasser’s Twelve Variations on Chorale by J.S. Bach, exploring the power and modernity of Bach’s harmonic poetry. Dinnerstein continues to demonstrate her “unique voice in the forest of Bach interpretation” (The New York Times) with the composer’s 15 Sinfonias, and closes her program with Keith Jarrett’s Encore from “Tokyo,” ending the night on a note of otherworldly serenity.

Dinnerstein’s performance is the fifth-annual Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Recital – a creative initiative connecting Justice Ginsburg’s love of music, the esteemed artists she championed and befriended, and the future of the vocal and instrumental arts in which she delighted.

Program Details

Jean-Philippe Rameau – Gavotte et six doubles
Philip Lasser – Twelve Variations on Chorale by J.S. Bach
Ellis Ludwig-Leone – Prelude to Liquid Days
J.S. Bach – 15 Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
Keith Jarrett / trans. Uwe Karcher – Encore from “Tokyo”

Our Partners

Washington Performing Arts’s 60th anniversary year is generously sponsored by Dr. Gary Mather † and Ms. Christina Co Mather.

Washington Performing Arts’s classical music performances this season are made possible in part through the generous support of Betsy and Robert Feinberg.

Washington Performing Arts also thanks the dozens of donors to the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Memorial Award and Recital Fund who helped make this concert possible.

Special thanks to the following lead supporters of Washington Performing Arts’s mission-driven work: Jacqueline Badger Mars and Mars, Incorporated; D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities; the National Capital Arts and Cultural Affairs Program and the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts; The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation; and Events DC.

† deceased

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