Something for Everyone
Concert Sponsor - "Livonia Town Hall"
Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 4:00pm
Soloist - Anthony Bonamici, Pianist
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Egmont Overture
Lieutenant Kije Suite Piano Concerto #1 |
Beethoven
Prokofiev Chopin |
Anthony Bonamici, Pianist/Composer
Native born Livonian, Anthony Bonamici will perform with the Livonia Symphony Orchestra February 2, 2012 at 4:00 p.m. in Clarenceville High School's Schmidt Auditorium to help celebrate the LSO’s 40th Anniversary. This will be only the second time in twelve years that Anthony has performed back in his hometown of Livonia since leaving in the fall of 1994 to study in Russia at the famed Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory. It was four years later that he transferred to the prestigious St. Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory where he graduated with honors earning a Master of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance and another degree in Composition.
Anthony studied piano in Moscow with Professors Yuri Airapetyan and Naum Schtarkman and received top scores from a panel of judges during those four years. In St. Petersburg he was a student of Professor Elena Shishko and graduated with honors in 2001 earning a Master of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance and another degree in 2004 in Composition under the tutelage of Professor B. Tishchenko. Prior to Russia, Anthony studied one year at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas under the direction of Professor John Perry.
Anthony started his musical venture at age five and as a child and teenager, studied with Professor Donald Morelock at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. During that time, he was giving solo recitals, performing with orchestras and taking part in competitions. Anthony was a national award winner in two competitions sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association and second place winner in the International Young Keyboard Artists competition. In Russia, he won the “St. Petersburg Reflected in World’s Musical Culture” international competition which led to his teaching at the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg.
As a young teen, Anthony began studying composition with Professor Andrew Meade at the University of Michigan. He wrote his first piano concerto at age 16 that won first place in the BMI student competition as the top student composition by any student up to age 26 in the Western Hemisphere. He received the first William Schuman Award at the Plaza Hotel in New York City with composers Milton Babbitt and George Crumb in attendance. Later that year at the Aspen School of Music, he wrote and participated in a performance premiere of his first Piano Quartet. Anthony has since premiered two more of his compositions in Russia; a song-cycle called "Birds of the Prut River" written to poetry by A. Embirikos, and recently performed his vocal song cycle "Waiting" based on poems by A. Blok.
Anthony, fluent in Russian, is currently performing in both St. Petersburg and Moscow and continues to compose. He teaches piano and chamber music at the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg. Anthony also performs chamber music with members of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra as well as with many operatic singers throughout Russia. He adjudicates competitions and performs master classes elsewhere in Europe. Besides piano, Anthony is an avid harpsichordist and builds historically-oriented harpsichords at the “Bonamici Clavecins” workshop which he founded in 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Anthony studied piano in Moscow with Professors Yuri Airapetyan and Naum Schtarkman and received top scores from a panel of judges during those four years. In St. Petersburg he was a student of Professor Elena Shishko and graduated with honors in 2001 earning a Master of Musical Arts Degree in Piano Performance and another degree in 2004 in Composition under the tutelage of Professor B. Tishchenko. Prior to Russia, Anthony studied one year at Rice University's Shepherd School of Music in Houston, Texas under the direction of Professor John Perry.
Anthony started his musical venture at age five and as a child and teenager, studied with Professor Donald Morelock at Schoolcraft College in Livonia. During that time, he was giving solo recitals, performing with orchestras and taking part in competitions. Anthony was a national award winner in two competitions sponsored by the Music Teachers National Association and second place winner in the International Young Keyboard Artists competition. In Russia, he won the “St. Petersburg Reflected in World’s Musical Culture” international competition which led to his teaching at the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg.
As a young teen, Anthony began studying composition with Professor Andrew Meade at the University of Michigan. He wrote his first piano concerto at age 16 that won first place in the BMI student competition as the top student composition by any student up to age 26 in the Western Hemisphere. He received the first William Schuman Award at the Plaza Hotel in New York City with composers Milton Babbitt and George Crumb in attendance. Later that year at the Aspen School of Music, he wrote and participated in a performance premiere of his first Piano Quartet. Anthony has since premiered two more of his compositions in Russia; a song-cycle called "Birds of the Prut River" written to poetry by A. Embirikos, and recently performed his vocal song cycle "Waiting" based on poems by A. Blok.
Anthony, fluent in Russian, is currently performing in both St. Petersburg and Moscow and continues to compose. He teaches piano and chamber music at the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg. Anthony also performs chamber music with members of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra as well as with many operatic singers throughout Russia. He adjudicates competitions and performs master classes elsewhere in Europe. Besides piano, Anthony is an avid harpsichordist and builds historically-oriented harpsichords at the “Bonamici Clavecins” workshop which he founded in 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia.
