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Jason Hardink

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A fearless interpreter of large-scale piano works both modern and historical, pianist Jason Hardink’s debut at Weill Recital Hall was lauded for its audacious programming and pianism demonstrating “abandon and remarkable clarity” and a “capacity for tenderness and grace” (Anthony Tommasini, New York Times).

Concerts during the 2024-25 season include the premiere of Jeffrey Holmes large-scale solo piano cycle YGG “Inn Naetr Níu” [The Nine Nights] (February 2025), a performance of the Liszt Sonata in B Minor on an 1852 Bösendorfer piano (December 2024), and performances and recording of the complete solo piano music of Jeffery Mumford.

Below: watch the video premiere of Jason Eckardt’s most recent solo piano work, a melody which the air had strained (2019), performed by Jason Hardink on June 4 at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah.

 
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Performances

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An Evening of Premieres @ Westminster
Feb 3
An Evening of Premieres @ Westminster

World premieres of solo works composed by Michael Carnes and Jeffrey Holmes.

Nicolas Chuaqui premiere: Lake Flight
Feb 24
Nicolas Chuaqui premiere: Lake Flight

World Premiere performance of Nicolas Chuaqui's new solo piano work Lake Flight.

Kurtág's Rückblick @ Westminster
Mar 24
Kurtág's Rückblick @ Westminster

A rare performance of Kurtág's cycle Rückblick, Hommage à Stockhausen at Westminster University.

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Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt @ Music in Context
Nov 24
Clara Schumann and Franz Liszt @ Music in Context

Performance of the Liszt Sonata in B Minor and Clara Schumann’s opus 21 Romances on an 1852 Bösendorfer piano.

The Diary of One Who Disappeared @ Westminster
Nov 18
The Diary of One Who Disappeared @ Westminster

A performance of Janáček’s operatic chamber work, The Diary of One Who Disappeared, with tenor Christopher Puckett.

Bartók Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 1 @ USU
Oct 30
Bartók Sonata for Violin & Piano No. 1 @ USU

A performance of Bartók's first sonata for violin and piano with Robert Waters at Utah State University.

“Hardink is a noteworthy pianist of extraordinary talent, sound technique and musicality. Virtuosity comes as easily and naturally to his playing as does his keen sense of musical resolve.”
— Deseret News

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The NOVA Podcast, Episode 13: psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs

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News

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NY Times Review: A Carnegie Recital Pushes the Piano to Its Limits

Most pianists begin a recital with a piece that allows them to warm up a little, and gives the audience a chance to settle in. Not Jason Hardink. He began his concert on Tuesday at Weill Recital Hall with Jason Eckardt’s “Echoes’ White Veil,” a dizzying, manic 12-minute work of almost stupefying difficulty.  Read more

New York Concert Review: Key Pianists presents Jason Hardink

Jason Hardink demonstrated why he deserves to be known as a “key” pianist on Tuesday evening to a nearly-full house at Weill Recital Hall. He made the strongest impression in the thorny 20th century works that he has made his calling card: Eckardt, Xenakis, Messiaen. His strengths are: a prodigious memory and uncanny independence of hands and fingers that allows him to create extremes of contrasting sonority, both soft and loud, often simultaneously; he is very musical, and I believed every note he played. Read more

New York Classical Review: Pianist Hardink climbs nearly every mountain in virtuosic program

In a week when the Academy Award for Best Documentary went to a film about a man climbing a 3,000-foot cliff without a rope, an analogous musical event took place at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall Tuesday night.  Read more

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