baroklyn
Photo Credit: Grayson Dantzic
Baroklyn is a group of string players which I lead from the piano. We’re a community that shares the artistic vision that is most important to me, that music should be creative and new. Rehearsal is important to us, and I’ve been influenced by theater practice in which we listen to each other and pass musical ideas and phrases within the group. We rehearse and perform in a semi-circle around the piano and I rearrange parts to emphasize lines, voices and imitative qualities to create a sense of dialogue. I often work with the composer Philip Lasser who makes continuo parts in his contemporary idiom.
The members of Baroklyn are predominantly female, although not exclusively! That’s a reflection of the fact that they are outstanding musicians who I discovered and brought together through networks of friendship. We have recently recorded Complicité, an album consisting of works by Bach with a twist.
-Simone Dinnerstein, Director
DISCOGRAPHY
Complicité
Release Date: May 30, 2025
Complicité is Simone Dinnerstein’s first recording with Baroklyn, the string ensemble she founded and directs. The album features the music of J.S. Bach and Philip Lasser with featured performances by Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano and Peggy Pearson, oboe d’amore.
COLLECTIVE MEMBERS
Violin
Rebecca Fischer, concertmaster
Monica Davis
Gabriela Diaz
Pauline Kim Harris
Colleen Jennings
Karla Donehew Perez
Annaliesa Place
Suzy Perelman
Viola
Celia Hatton
Oriana Hawley
Jeremy Kienbaum
Caeli Smith
Jessica Thompson
Cello
Alexis Pia Gerlach
Julian Müller
Bass
Lizzie Burns
Marguerite Cox
Anthony Manzo
Credit: Grayson Dantzic
CONCERTS
OCT 21, 2025
Kaufman Music Center - New York, NY
7;30PM - Merkin Hall
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn are presented by Kaufman Music Center with Jennifer Johnson Cano, mezzo-soprano and Katherine Needleman, oboe.
OCT 23, 2025
University of Hartford – West Hartford, CT
7:30PM - Millard Auditorium
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn are presented by University of Hartford as part of the Richard P. Garmany Concert Series. They will perform selections from Complicité.
OCT 24, 2025
Music Worcester - Worcester, MA
8:00PM - Mechanics Hall
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn are presented by Music Worcester with CONCORA and mezzo-soprano Jennifer Johnson Cano.
MAY 27, 2026
Library of Congress - Washington, D.C.
8:00PM - Library of Congress
Pianist Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn perform works from their album Complicité, presented by the Library of Congress.
GALLERY
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Live performance of Philip Glass’s The Hours, May 12, 2025 at Merkin Concert Hall, NY