Concerts and Conversations Music from Americas Gilded Age - Anthony Bonamici, Fortepianist

HUNTER – On Saturday, March 8 at 2:00 PM, pianist Anthony Bonamici will perform the music of John Knowles Paine in the intimate setting of the Piano Performance Museum at the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter. 

Music from America’s Gilded Age includes: Sonata in A minor, op. 1, Vier Character-Stücke für Pianoforte, op. 11 and In the Country: Ten Sketches for Piano, op. 26, all of which were composed by John Knowles Paine, the first music professor in America. Originally from Maine, Paine was the first American-born composer to achieve fame for large-scale orchestral music. Paine’s music appreciation and music theory courses at Harvard became the model for departments of music in America. Paine served as a director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and began America’s symphonic tradition. He was also a founder of the American Guild of Organists. Paine was inducted into the American Classical Music Hall of Fame in 1998.

Anthony Bonamici is an American pianist originally from Livonia, Michigan. Known for his decisive musical voice, emotional intensity, scrupulously crafted interpretations, and ability to connect intimately with his audiences, Anthony has performed at Carnegie Hall and the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York City, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and in many of Russia’s most famous concert halls including the Moscow Conservatory, the Great and Small Halls of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, and the Mariinsky Theater Concert Hall. He has collaborated with vocal soloists of the Mariinsky Theater and Helikon Opera, and with members of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Russian Early Music Ensemble, Barocco Concertato, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, and The Moscow Virtuosi. He has presented lecture recitals for the Steinway Society of Michigan, the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies, the Ann Arbor Piano Teacher’s Guild, and has performed for the Chopin Society of Connecticut. 

Bonamici will perform at 2PM on Saturday, March 8 at the Piano Performance Museum at Doctorow Center for the Arts, 7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY. Enjoy the music, meet the artist and stay for the reception. Get tickets at www.catskillmtn.org. The concert is free but the suggested donation of $10 will help cover the ticket fees and support programs like this one.

About Catskill Mountain Foundation
The Catskill Mountain Foundation’s (CMF) aim is to provide educational opportunities in the arts for youth and lifelong learners, to bring the experience of the arts to the Catskill community, and to support artists and art organizations in the development of their work through residencies. Since its founding in 1998, CMF has presented hundreds of music, dance, and theater performances; screened over 1,000 films to tens of thousands of audience members; provided studio arts classes to thousands of students of all ages; and served thousands of art-loving patrons in the Catskill Mountain Foundation Gift Shop. The Catskill Mountain Foundation operates the Doctorow Center for the Arts in Hunter, the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, and the Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts in Maplecrest, NY.

Since 1998, CMF has raised, generated, and invested close to $16 million in facility development and an excess of $42 million in programming operations, for a total investment in the Catskill community of over $58 million. Catskill Mountain Foundation is supported in part by New York State Council on the Arts, the Greene County Cultural Fund administered by the Greene County Legislature, The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation, The Royce Family Foundation, The Samuel and Esther Doctorow Fund, The Orville and Ethel Slutzky Family Foundation, Platte Clove Bruderhof Community, Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation, The Greene County Youth Bureau, Marshall & Sterling Insurance, All Souls’ Church, Stewarts Shops, Windham Foundation, and by private donations. CMF believes that the arts can transform the lives of those touched by it and can transform the community. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Instagram, and subscribe to our YouTube channel.