“…a splendid pianist, sensitive musically, supple in phrase, brilliant in technique.”
Joanne Polk was catapulted into the public eye with her recordings of the complete piano works of American composer Amy Beach (1867-1944) on the Arabesque Recordings label.
She celebrated the centennial of Beach’s Piano Concerto by giving the work its London premiere with the English Chamber Orchestra at the Barbican Center, under the baton of Paul Goodwin, and subsequently performed it with the Women’s Philharmonic in San Francisco, under conductor Apo Hsu, in a performance described as “brilliant” by critic Joshua Kosman of the San Francisco Chronicle. He further lauded her performance as “an enormously vital, imaginative reading. Her playing was expansive in the opening movement, brittle and keen in the delightful scherzo. She brought a light touch to the foreshortened slow movement and fearless technical panache to the showy conclusion.”
Photo credit: Jeffrey Langford
Joanne is proudly represented by Vida Art Management
Announcing Joanne’s latest CD
Nostalgia – Piano Music of Cecile Chaminade Vol. 2
Nostalgia features Chaminade’s elegant and lovely “Thème Varié” along with her sparkling, glittery and brilliant “Toccata,” her hauntingly beautiful “Nocturne”, and many more pianistic gems by this often overlooked French composer.
Released September 6, 2024
NOSTALGIA has been chosen as one of WQXR’s five new albums to listen to in their “Have You Heard” article!
Read the article HERE.
Check out Joanne’s Interview with Fred Child on Performance Today (Minnesota Public Radio).
Joanne is honored to have her CD listed in the Best Classical Music of 2020 list in the NY Times.
Joanne’s music was featured on the radio broadcast, The Piano Matters with David Dubal”
Joanne Polk is an Exclusive
Steinway Artist
“The Steinway piano assists in the realization of a lifetime of work. The uniquely sensitive Steinway can transform arduous pianistic struggles into musical and artistic bliss. Without an instrument as well-crafted and artistically satisfying as a Steinway, that ideal is guaranteed to be compromised.”
Joanne has dedicated her career to celebrating the works of Women Composers
Review – The Silence Between the Notes – Louise Farrenc: Solo Piano Works, Vol. 2
REVIEWS • CDs SOLO REPERTOIRE Farrenc Piano Works, Vol 2: ‘The Silence Between the Notes’ Joanne Polk of Steinway & Sons STNS30223 Joanne Polk’s second Steinway & Sons album devoted to piano works by Louise Farrenc matches the previous release’s superb pianism...
Milwaukee Ballet Performs to My Recording
I am thrilled that the Milwaukee Ballet choreographed and performed a work to my recording of a piece by Cécile Chaminade. View the article HERE.
Women Did It First!
Did you know women have been writing music as long as men? Léonin was the first known significant composer of polyphonic music, and lived, it is thought, around 1150-1201. But Hildegarde von Bingen lived from 1098-1179, and was a composer, philosopher, writer and...