BACH, JOHANN SEBASTIAN (1685–1750)

Pianist, arranger and teacher Eleonor Bindman is known worldwide for ‘Bach playing of the highest order’ (Pianodao), and combines her passions of teaching and performing to bring new repertoire to light through her original transcriptions, scores and recordings. Pianist Magazine declared the 2018 recording of her piano four-hands arrangement of J.S. Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos ‘breathtaking in its sheer precision and vitality’. The success of this album led to Stepping Stones to Bach, a set of 48 easy/intermediate piano arrangements, followed by the unprecedented Cello Suites for Solo Piano (GP847⁠–⁠48) and, most recently, Bach’s complete keyboard Partitas (Delos). As Duo Vivace, she and Susan Sobolewski released Out of the Blue, featuring works by Holst, Bernstein and Gershwin. A native of Riga, Latvia, Bindman received a BA in music from NYU and completed her MA in piano pedagogy at SUNY, New Paltz. She is a prizewinner of the New Orleans, Ferruccio Busoni and Jose Iturbi international piano competitions. An active recording artist, performer and teacher, she is currently based in New York City.

Jenny Lin is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming, exceptional technique, sensitive touch and charismatic stage presence. Her orchestral engagements have included the American Symphony Orchestra, the NDR and SWR Radio Symphony Orchestras, and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai. Her concerts have taken her to Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher Hall, the Kennedy Center, MoMA, Stanford LIVE, and the National Gallery of Art, as well as appearances at festivals such as Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart and BAM’s Next Wave, the Spoleto Festival USA, Kings Place (London), the Chopin Festival (Vienna), and the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Germany.

Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, Jenny Lin studied at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, and at the Fondazione internazionale per il pianoforte in Italy. She holds a bachelor’s degree in German literature from Johns Hopkins University. She is a Steinway Artist.

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Johann Sebastian Bach belonged to a dynasty of musicians. In following inevitable family tradition, he excelled his forebears and contemporaries, although he did not always receive in his own lifetime the respect he deserved. Despite widespread neglect for almost a century after his death, Bach is now regarded as one of the greatest of all composers. Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis numbers, abbreviated to BWV, are generally accepted for convenience of reference.