Baroklyn Simone Dinnerstein

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