Jeremy Denk’s 150th Birthday Party for Charles Ives

Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar

Fri 6 Sept 3pm

Duration: 2 hours approx

Book this concert £30, £24, £18


Violin Sonata No 1
Violin Sonata No 2
Violin Sonata No 3
Violin Sonata No 4

Violin
Piano


Music Director


Free ticket for any school student attending with a full price ticket holder 18+

Half price ticket for students aged 16+ in full time education

Jeremy Denk's 150th Birthday Party for Charles Ives at Lammermuir Festival

‘I love to play Ives because he’s after things that most composers don’t dare to attempt, and so he gets to emotional places and states that other composers can’t find.’ (Jeremy Denk).

For Denk, Ives is one of ‘the original American Originals.’ His exploration of the four Ives Violin Sonatas with Polish violinist Maria Wloszczowska takes us right to the nub of what makes this extraordinary genius tick: his deep humanity as well as his maverick craziness, his constant reference back to hymns, popular songs and marching bands remembered from his New England childhood.

Alongside the sonatas there will be readings, a band plays some of Ives’s marches and a choir sings hymns as a backdrop to the wonderfully rich, layered textures of Ives’s musical thought. Denk says ‘while driving me crazy, he reminds me why I play the piano at all.’

Jeremy Denk is one of America’s foremost pianists, proclaimed by the New York Times as “a pianist you want to hear no matter what he performs.” Denk is also a New York Times bestselling author, the recipient of both the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship and the Avery Fisher Prize, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Denk is a multi-faceted, intelligent pianist, equally at home playing solo in recital or concertos with orchestra, a natural, instinctive educator with a rare ability to reach out to his audience.

The Guardian

Seating Plan

See ticket prices for Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar below.

Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar

Dunbar Parish Church, Gillespie Graham's grand red sandstone gothic church of 1821 stands proudly looking out to sea.

Damaged by fire in 1987, its spacious interior was restored with a colourful mix of ancient and modern features including an elaborate early 17th Century monument to the Earl of Dunbar and some fine 1990 stained glass by Shona McInnes and Douglas Hogg.

Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar

Address

Dunbar Parish Church, Dunbar
EH42 1LB

Getting there by bus

The following buses pass through Dunbar. Pleasae check time tables before booking your tickets:
EAST COAST BUSES: x7, 106
EVES COACHES: 120

Getting there by train

Dunbar train station is a short walk from the church.

Getting there by car

Dunbar is just off the A1.

Accessibility

Parking:

There is free car parking around the town.

We can offer 3 spaces inside the church grounds for blue badge holders. Please email [email protected] to book a space, subject to availability and on a first come first served basis.

Terrain:

Tarmac.

Induction Loop:
Yes

Toilets:
Ladies and gents on ground (one adapted toilet) and first floors.

Wheelchair Access:

Sloped tarmac path to church. Level access into venue.

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