Recording star Simone Dinnerstein to perform Brahms 
in return to Asheville Symphony, Oct. 18

From a press release:

Recording star Simone Dinnerstein to perform Brahms 
in return to Asheville Symphony

The Asheville Symphony Orchestra continues its 54th season on Saturday, October 18, with a Masterworks concert featuring the return of pianist Simone Dinnerstein playing Brahms, along with seminal works by Roy Harris and Edvard Grieg.

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1, which will be conducted by ASO Music Director Daniel Meyer, begins at 8 p.m. in Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at the U.S. Cellular Center. Harris’ Symphony No. 3 and Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 will be on the first half, followed by Brahms’ piano masterpiece featuring Dinnerstein.

A star on the Sony Classical recording label whose career has exploded in recent years, Dinnerstein made her debut in Asheville with a 2011 performance of Ravel’s Piano Concerto. Her most recent album, “J.S. Bach: Inventions and Sinfonias,” debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical chart. NPR said of Dinnerstein, “She compels the listener to follow her in a journey of discovery filled with unscheduled detours … She’s actively listening to every note she plays, and the result is a wonderfully expressive interpretation.”

The first half of the program features Harris’ most well-known work, and Grieg’s most recognizable. “Roy Harris created a small masterpiece in his one-movement Symphony No. 3, considered to be one of the most brilliant examples of American symphonic music,” Meyer said.

Grieg’s first suite from Peer Gynt includes the romantic “Morning Mood” and fearsome “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” variations of which have been used in dozens of films and television shows.

Tickets for Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 start at $22 for adults and $11 for youth, and are available through the ASO office or the U.S. Cellular Center ticket office.