Bailey/Dinnerstein Duo
Concert at Chandler

Cellist Zuill Bailey and pianist Simone Dinnerstein will perform the complete Beethoven Sonatas for Cello and Piano at Chandler Music Hall in Randolph Friday, April 25 at 7 p.m.

This year marks the 12^th anniversary of the Bailey and Dinnerstein collaboration. Both are known as highly accomplished musicians with a flair for arresting interpretations. The classical music critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer called them "one of the most fascinating chamber-music duos anywhere, in performances that are practically bursting with heart and soul."

The two musicians released the first volume of a two-CD set featuring the complete Beethoven works for piano and cello in October 2006 on the Delos label, and will release the second disc in the fall of 2008. Gramophone Magazine highly praised the first volume, noting their "remarkable chemistry, with a flexible, conversational approach to the score," and Strings magazine called it "one of the year’s most impressive chamber music releases." They last performed the complete Beethoven Sonatas at a sold-out performance at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in October 2007 and will perform them next at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. on April 27.

"In the last decade, Bailey has established a reputation as a consummate musician and totally engaging artist in performances with regional orchestras across the US," says Chandler’s Janet Watton, "as well as with the major symphonies in Chicago, San Francisco, Utah, Milwaukee, and Ft. Worth."

Bailey has performed at Carnegie Hall, at the 92^nd St. "Y" and Alice Tully Hall in New York, and at the National Gallery and the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. Worldwide performances have taken him to China, Cuba, Mexico, Israel, France and England, and he toured Russia with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Peabody Conservatory and the Juilliard School, he serves as professor of cello at the University of Texas-El Paso, and as artistic director of El Paso Pro-Musica.

Dinnerstein has gained international attention since making a sold-out New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall in 2005, performing Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Her Telarc CD recording of the Variations went to the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Classical Chart in the first week of its release. Recent and upcoming performances include her recital debuts in Washington D.C. at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in San Francisco, Paris, London, Copenhagen, Vilnius, and Bremen.

Dinnerstein also made debut performances at the Stuttgart Bach Festival, with the Dresden Philharmonic, Czech Philharmonic, Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. In November 2007, she made her recital debut at the Berlin Philharmonic. In New York, she performs in the People’s Symphony series at Town Hall and Lincoln Center’s Great Performers series during the 2007-08 season. She will perform a solo recital in March 2009 at Chandler. A graduate of the Juilliard School, she lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The duo will be guests of Walter Parker at the VPR studios in Colchester, with conversation and live music, at 1 p.m. on the day of their Chandler performance.

Reserved seat tickets are available through the Chandler box office at 728-6464 between 3-6 p.m. or at tickets@chandler-arts.org.

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