This article appearing in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2/27/22 features excerpts from my wonderful interview with Joshua Kosman on LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano!
I'm pleased to announce that as of May, 2021, nearly all upcoming engagements will be performed in front of a live audience. Many of the concerts will include the postponed premieres of all of the new LIAISONS2020 works written in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday in 2020.
The LIAISONS2020 composers include Timo Andres, Jonathan Batiste, Jeff Beal, Mark Bennett, Christopher Cerrone, Ted Hearne, Stephen Hough, Meredith Monk, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Max Richter, Marc Schubring and Conrad Tao. The national tour will continue through 2022.
I'm so pleased to announce all of the current upcoming engagements (as of May, 2021) that will be (mostly) live concerts with an audience, many of which will include the postponed premieres of all of the new LIAISONS2020 works written in celebration of Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday in 2020.
ANTHONY DE MARE Brings Majesty and Mastery for THE LIAISONS PROJECT at Hayes Theatre
“I can’t think of a 2015 album with more talent on display than this 3-hour-plus project.”
The New York Times, Best Classical Recordings
“Ambitious and fascinating…”
NPR: Best of 2015 / 10 Favorite Classical / Songs We Love
“A lovingly rendered compendium…de Mare is one bold pianist.”
Washington Post: Top 5 Classical:
“A rich, breathtaking cornucopia…”
The Arts Desk UK, Best of 2015
“Marvel at de Mare's virtuosity, able to convince in multiple genres …
San Francisco Examiner, Best of 2015
“A memorable recording.”
The Province Vancouver, Top 25
“An album you should hear.”
Houston Chronicle, Top 20
“A thoughtful album with staying power. I can picture myself listening to for years to come.”
San Francisco Chronicle, CD review
“A starry who's who of the contemporary music world... the whole undertaking is a triumph.”
All About Jazz, CD review
“Stellar compositional contributions and superlative delivery.”
- September 24th, 2015: Birdland - 6 pm
- October 22nd, 2015: Sheen Center for Thought and Culture - 7:30 pm
- Novemer 18th, 2015: Symphony Space - Peter Jay Sharp Theater - 8 pm
Read the rave review from the Chicago Sun Times:
"Pianist’s Passion comes through in Sondheim Revamps at Ravinia"
Read the rave review below from The Contrapuntist!
He will be returning to Ravinia next summer 2014 with another program!
A two-concert presentation at The Gilmore International Keyboard Festival in May 2012 featured the premiere of Michael Daugherty’s “Everybody’s Got the Right” from Assassins, commissioned by the Festival. along with 19 other pieces from the Project. Daugherty’s piece calls for what may be a pianistic first-- a gunshot fired at the finale. In his Kalamazoo Gazette review, C. Curtis-Smith called the concert “highly colorful, and superbly played by de Mare.”
Read the entire review here:
Greeted by a sold-out house and a rave review in the New York Times, de Mare premiered seventeen pieces from the project at Symphony Space this past April. In a live onstage interview midway through the program, Sondheim said he found the project “incredibly aesthetically fulfilling. To hear composers take my music and take it seriously… it’s a thrill.”
Highlight Reel from Symphony Space Premiere:
The San Francisco premiere of Liaisons was also greeted by a capacity audience on the Music at Meyer series at Temple Emanuel-El. Read the enthusiastic review here by Joshua Kosman in the San Francisco Chronicle:
... this time by Brett Campbell in San Francisco Classical Voice
Wonderful cariacature of Anthony de Mare and Stephen Sondheim featured.
AUGUST, 2011 -- Review of LIAISONS in the Oregon Arts Watch entitled Looking Forward - Looking Homeward by Brett Campbell
MARCH, 2011 -- Anthony de Mare brings a sneak peek of his project Re-Imagining Stephen Sondheim for Piano to the Clarice Smith Center
Anthony de Mare is one of the world’s foremost champions of contemporary music. His versatility and innovative programming over the past three and a half decades has inspired the creation of over 90 new works by some of today’s most distinguished artists including Steve Reich, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Batiste, Nico Muhly, Frederic Rzewski, Kevin Puts, Fred Hersch, Ethan Iverson, Meredith Monk, Mason Bates, Eve Beglarian, and Andy Akiho. The Chicago Sun Times says “de Mare’s passion and vision almost radiate from the stage ... he causes all involved –composers, performer and audience members --to think about how music is made and how we listen to it.”
Known for his entrepreneurial performance projects, he continues to expand the boundaries of the repertoire, which includes the speaking-singing pianist genre that he pioneered over 30 years ago with the premiere of Rzewski’s "De Profundis", based on the writings of Oscar Wilde. The piece remains one of his signatures – the New York Classical Review described a recent performance as “gripping and moving … a living thing on stage, as if one was sitting in de Mare’s home, listening to him tell his own story. This was an ideal meeting of composer and interpreter -- a unique and wonderful experience.”
De Mare’s monumental project, Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano perfectly expresses his vision to expand both the repertoire and the audience for contemporary music. As creator, performer and co-producer, this landmark commissioning and concert project has definitively brought the work of Stephen Sondheim into the concert hall, through the extraordinary re-imaginings of composers from across the musical spectrum. In addition to the Project’s acclaimed national, U.K., Canadian, and Australian tours, his recording of the first 36 pieces in the compendium, released by ECM’s prestigious New Series label, was cited on numerous “Best Of” lists. The San Francisco Chronicle declared that “this irresistible new CD set — is a little short of breathtaking … many of the composers give de Mare plenty of opportunities for virtuoso showing off — which he grabs with gusto. The whole undertaking is a triumph.”
In honor of Sondheim’s 90th birthday in 2020, de Mare extended the Project to include 14 new commissions, bringing the total compendium to 50. The pieces premiered and officially became part of the collection in the 2021-2022 concert season at Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall. Composers include Timo Andres, Jon Batiste, Jeff Beal, Mark Bennett, Christopher Cerrone, Ted Hearne, Stephen Hough, Meredith Monk, Paola Prestini, Kevin Puts, Max Richter. Marc Schubring and Conrad Tao. He has continued to tour the new collection with performances at UCLA’s Royce Hall, Ravinia, Williams College (Sondheim’s alma mater), Maverick Concerts, University of Iowa, Southern Oregon University, and Lawrence Family JCC (San Diego), among others.
His newest recording "All Things Bright and Beautiful ~ Liaisons II: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano" will be released in the spring of 2025 on Avie Records to commemorate Sondheim's 95th birthday year. It will feature the fourteen new Liaisons works from 2020. With the release of the original ECM recording, Mr. de Mare was featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and was invited to perform on Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series event “Reich and Sondheim: In Conversation”. Liaisons was chosen to represent Mr. Sondheim’s oeuvre in the festivities surrounding his receipt of the 2013 Medal of Honor from the MacDowell Colony at the Monadnock Music Festival. An excerpt from the project was also featured in the HBO documentary “Six by Sondheim”.
His performances recently have taken him to Zankel Hall at Carnegie, the Mostly Modern Festival, Maverick Music, Art Bath (NYC), Southeastern Piano Festival, American Pianists Association (Indianapolis), Australia (Melbourne Recital Centre and Sydney), the London Jazz Festival at the Barbican, the Bari Piano Festival in Italy, the 21C Festival in Toronto, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Cal Performances (Berkeley), Virginia Tech Center for the Arts, SF Jazz, The Ravinia Festival, the Gilmore Keyboard Festival, Monadnock Music Festival, the Virginia Arts Festival, the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Schubert Club in Minneapolis, Mondavi Center at UC Davis, Rockport Music Festival, and the Cliburn Series in Fort Worth. With the release of his new recording, a European tour which will include the 2025 Porto Pianofest in Portugal and the Gijon International Piano Festival in Spain, in addition to concerts around the USA.
The adaptability of his programming to traditional classical, jazz and theater spaces speaks to the range of de Mare’s versatility. His performances over the years span five continents with over twenty recordings in his discography. In addition to the two current releases of LIAISONS on ECM and Avie, his recording SPEAK! ~ The Speaking-Singing Pianist (Innova) is the first disc devoted completely to the genre he created over twenty years ago. For Out of My Hands (KOCH E1), American Record Guide raved that “his exquisite touch and impassioned beauty of utterance imbue this program with artistry of the highest order.” American Record Guide also named Wizards and Wildmen: Piano Music of Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison (CRI /New World) as one of 2000’s Ten Best Releases. Other acclaimed recordings include: Pianos and Voices: Music by John Cage and Meredith Monk, an unprecedented pairing of these two mavericks of the American avant-garde (Koch), Frederic Rzewski - Anthony de Mare (O.O. Discs), and Oblivion, with cellist Maya Beiser (Koch).
Since his debut with Young Concert Artists, his accolades and awards have included First Prize and Audience Prize at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition (The Netherlands) and The International Contemporary Piano Competition of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (France). He gave his Carnegie Hall debut at Zankel Hall in 2005.
He has been profiled by the Chicago Tribune, The New Yorker, the New York Times, Time Out NY, The Contrapuntist, BroadwayWorld.com, among others, and has been heard in performance and interviews on nationally syndicated shows with WNYC’s John Schaefer, NPR, WQXR and numerous stations across the country.
A Steinway Artist, he currently is Professor of Piano at Manhattan School of Music. He recently also served as new music curator for the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in NYC and is a guest curator at Kaufman Music Center.
(short bio available by request)
Mr. de Mare is a Steinway Artist.
www.liaisonsproject.com
de Mare's passion and vision almost radiate from the stage. He underscores, literally you might say, the serious nature of Sondheim's musical accomplishment and he causes all involved -- composers, performer and audience members -- to think about how music is made and how we listen to it.Andrew Patner Chicaco Sun Times
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"In the composer’s own words, De Profundis 'demands a combination of virtuoso technique and a total lack of inhibition on stage.' De Mare has the technique, and his performance of Lost and Found showed he had the attitude as well. More than that, he’s an actor, and he crossed the line between an artist performing the work of another to someone who sounded like he himself had written the words and was creating his own accompaniment.
This was a gripping and moving performance. For the listener, it went beyond observing and admiring from the outside and became a living thing on stage, as if one was sitting in de Mare’s home, listening to him tell his own story. This was an ideal meeting of composer and interpreter, and a unique and wonderful experience."George Grella New York Classical Review
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This was a gripping and moving performance. For the listener, it went beyond observing and admiring from the outside and became a living thing on stage, as if one was sitting in de Mare’s home, listening to him tell his own story. This was an ideal meeting of composer and interpreter, and a unique and wonderful experience."
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“The adventurous pianist Anthony de Mare, a champion of contemporary music, merged his passion for Sondheim with his effort to expand the recital repertory… the resulting project required formidable virtuosity. Mr. de Mare’s playing was dynamic and stylish… I loved it.”
The concert offered a wide range of compositional styles and moods, highly colorful, and superbly played by de Mare.
Liaisons is a revelation… a delightful recital with an exuberant close. De Mare’s playing was superb throughout, a combination of lyrical reflection and extroverted pyrotechnics.
The brainchild of pianist Anthony de Mare... a thrilling program... filled with surprises and inventiveness.
Just when you thought that there wasn't anything new in piano recitals anymore, along comes Anthony de Mare … a first-class pianist whose list of composer friends is a virtual who's who of American music… each piece is a fascinating exploration of the composer's style.
If anyone still doubted Sondheim’s prowess as an instrumental composer, this project should firmly lay those doubts to rest… de Mare’s concert kicked off energetically and his illuminating stage comments relaxed the atmosphere.
The concert offered a wide range of compositional styles and moods, highly colorful, and superbly played by de Mare.
The ambitious endeavor of Anthony de Mare to create Liaisons between musical theater and so-called “art-music” brings out his formidable piano technique and his charming, easy manner.
It's more common to encounter instrumentalists, especially pianists, who bravely perform scores that also require singing. In 2005 at Zankel Hall, the adventurous pianist Anthony de Mare performed Frederic Rzewski's "De Profundis", a 30-minute work that combines ferocious and at times dreamy piano music with the speaking and singing of texts adapted from Oscar Wild's harrowing "De Profundis". As Mr. de Mare played the piece he produced a mesmerizing array of vocal sighs, barks and growls, but also passages of soulful and quiet singing.
The multi-talented Anthony de Mare, for whom the work [De Profundis] was created, gave a virtuoso performance. It's hard to imagine a more committed and compelling performance.
Not one artist in a thousand can bare his heart before the public the way Wilde, Rzewski, and de Mare did to create this deeply affecting performance. It was worth the entire rest of the marathon put together with a couple of New York Philharmonic seasons throw in.
...his recital was one of the most courageous local programs in recent history – an entertaining traversal of American iconoclasm ... "The Alcotts" from Ives "Concord" sonata was tenderly rendered ... and the gigantic "De Profundis" showed de Mare to be an unusually gifted speaker-actor. De Mare, for whom Rzewski wrote the piece, showed notable mastery of its many demands.
...touchingly human, startlingly realist, these [Rzewski's De Profundis and Kreutzer Sonata] had a powerful impact, not least due to de Mare's astonishing ability to play complex textures while speaking dramatically. In fact, Rzewski's music is a pianist's litmus test. Only de Mare could bring enough weight to the keyboard to make it sound the way Rzewski plays it himself. His powerhouse tremolo chords in Piece No. 4 achieved a transcendent fusion of man and machine.
The pianist Anthony de Mare specializes in new music, often with a theatrical twist, and he likes building his concerts around themes that make them into something more akin to a show than to a recital...Mr. de Mare gave a spicy performance of "Cool" from Leonard Bernstein's West Side Story (1957), as well as eloquent readings of Lou Harrison's gently exotic Largo Ostinato and Fred Hersch's Little Midnight Nocturne.
...a performance which conceals its skill, its virtuosity and its brilliance in service of a very genuine dedication to an expressive task...the overall impact was original, genuine and refreshing.
'Playing With MySelf' is at once a piano recital of 20th-century works and an abstract, autobiographical solo theater piece about how he came to choose the piano as his primary creative outlet. Along the way, he gives gripping performances of 14 piano works...He is a remarkably uninhibited and physical performer...it provides an imaginative context for Mr. de Mare's impressive talents and personal story. And you get to hear his ferocious pianism.
Every aspect of these works received vibrant handling by de Mare, whose attention to sonic shading and shapes was complete.
Mr. de Mare's protean talents fit his protean program. 'The Alcotts' - a movement from Ives's 'Concord Sonata' - was played as eloquently as I have ever heard it...
Not one artist in a thousand can bare his heart before the public the way Wilde, Rzewski, and de Mare did to create this deeply affecting performance. It was worth the entire rest of the marathon put together with a couple of New York Philharmonic seasons throw in.
Virtuoso Anthony de Mare took over for another Ginsberg text, "Sunflower Sutra" [by Jerome Kitzke]... commissioned by the remarkable de Mare...his level of commitment equals Kitzke's own and he brings gigantic technique to the table.
The recital of American pianist Anthony de Mare was quite an event of the festival...a fascinating show since de Mare presents not only his extraordinary pianism, vocal-showman talents, rhythmic flexibility, but also a great imagination of sound and ease in the realization of extremely different aesthetic ideas.
...de Mare has now gathered his talents into a one-man show, "Playing With MySelf"...which accomplishes the elusive feat of fusing concert music with theater...de Mare possesses genuine talents and noble ambitions, and he comes as close to pulling off this slippery fusion of forms as anyone I'm aware of.
de Mare is an amazing artist, and must be doing for contemporary piano literature what the Kronos Quartet has done for the contemporary string quartet. He is sure-fingered and dexterous, and puts his whole soul into his work. The results are remarkable.
Enthusiastic critics, worldwide rewards: pianist Anthony de Mare is considered a leader of contemporary piano music...The American succeeded in doing something very unusual: he made it possible for his audience to hear music in a new way and unlocked an uncommon dimension of music...In addition to his music, de Mare's performance, too, shares much with the dramatic in theater and film...de Mare's piano creates images and a world of feeling and dreams; it is a living music and it returns music to our selves as a fascinating, new territory.
- translation by Roland Dollinger
Pianist Anthony de Mare took no prisoners on the Auer Hall stage Friday evening...He can romance the keyboard...he can attack the innards of the piano...and make an acoustic instrument sound electronic...he can weave magical shifts of mood...and de Mare can croon and cackle and spew comic lines while negotiating complicated piano music...A superb recital, highlighted by flawless technique.
a theatrical sense, athleticism and intelligence...an authoritative performance by the New York piano virtuoso Anthony de Mare who lights up the stage with his charisma and energy.
...a stunning performance, pianistically virtuosic as well as emotionally taut.
It seems that great teachers can, with their insight, help us to understand, and Anthony de Mare is one of those. His choice of words and organization of his musical material incorporated some of the most profoundly spiritual music (Messiaen) with other influences, jazz, blues, and imagery of people, times and places, internal and external, in a way that illustrated the underlying humanity. De Mare has achieved the Ivesian ideal: to retain the pieces intact, yet make perfect sense of the whole, including contradictions.
'Out of My Hands' - 2005 Grammy Award Nomination – Short-List
Anthony de Mare has found a niche as a contemporary music specialist. That designation does him a disservice. He is a formidable pianist by any standards. His limpid tone, exquisite touch, and impassioned beauty of utterance imbue this program of vignettes by David Del Tredici and Aaron Jay Kernis with artistry of the highest order. This is quite simply beautiful playing. If only some of the power pounding competition winners listened to de Mare they might learn something. De Mare plays superbly and is vividly recorded.
["Wizards & Wildmen"] - One of 2000's Ten Best Releases
...an audacious disk...de Mare, playing at the keyboard, strumming the strings, and even singing along, plumbs the lustrous beauty lurking in the challenging scores.
This is the most illuminating and powerful CRI release I have heard in a very long time.
de Mare sinks his teeth into all of these pieces with the right balance of abandon, taste, and virtuosity. One feels that he really understands where this music comes from, and is able to play into that legacy.
de Mare triumphs in a long and demanding program; Undoubtedly his technique and interpretations are impressive, but even more impressive is the program itself, and the intellect that assembled it.
de Mare's incisive readings of the 18 works offered here...are definitely worth a hearing. ... de Mare, whose commitment to 20th-century music is laudable, gives compelling performances of these stylistically diverse works.
When you're confronted by a mad genius like Tony de Mare, all the traditional criteria fall apart and one is confronted with this "thing" ... what is it? ... This was an amazing program ... absolutely amazing! The whole program was extraordinary!
Tony doesn't just play the piano as he does and speak as he does ... if you go to a lot of his concerts, you become aware of how he programs his events ... that in itself is a real art form and he is a real master of that. Whether the pieces are gay, straight or whatever tonight, the way Tony chose them and ordered them was masterful.
When the audience wasn't giving them standing ovations, they were either stomping their feet to the hot stride piano of Jelly Roll Morton, listening in awe to the beauty of Art Tatum's blissful jazz, or almost brought to tears when they heard, and loved, the Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues by Frederic Rzewski. Mayer and de Mare have taken it upon themselves to educate their audiences with both familiar and undiscovered gems of piano music. They are both master pianists.
Past Performances
Aaron COPLAND: Four Piano Blues, Three Moods and Our Town
Concert Works TBA
Featuring: Narek Arutyunian, clarinet, Benjamin Baker, violin, Julia Bruskin, cello, Chee-Yun, violin, Colin Carr, cello, Anthony De Mare, piano, Chelsea Guo, soprano & piano, Bella Hristova, violin, Paul Huang, violin, Ida Kavafian, violin, Lun Li, violin, Daniel McGrew, tenor, Daniel Phillips, violin, Aristo Sham, piano
and Anthony Trionfo, flute
Concert features selections from "LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano" and Frederic Rzewski's "De Profundis" for speaking-singing pianist.
Performing works by Conrad Tao and Peter Gena
6pm, 7pm and 8 pm sets
Works by Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, Billy Strayhorn, Nico Muhly, Eve Beglarian, Meredith Monk, Fred Hersch, Ricky Ian Gordon, Mark Bennett, Stephen Hough and Anthony de Mare.
6pm, 7pm and 8 pm sets
Works by Aaron Copland, Lou Harrison, Billy Strayhorn, Nico Muhly, Eve Beglarian, Meredith Monk, Fred Hersch, Ricky Ian Gordon, Mark Bennett, Stephen Hough and Anthony de Mare.
Also - Offering Master Classes and Workshops throughout the week of June 6-12, 2022
On-stage discussion with the composers following the performance.
Works to include selections from The Liaisons Project and Frederic Rzewski's "De Profundis".
Featuring Rzewski's "De Profundis" for speaking/singing pianist, written for Anthony de Mare.
"If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan"
"Two Dogs I Have"
Grammy-winning pianist Gloria Cheng joins de Mare performing Steve Reich’s "Finishing the Hat - Two Pianos" and the west coast premiere of Conrad Tao’s two-piano version of "Move On". The program will include new works (split between the 3 pm event) by Timo Andres and Ted Hearne (CAP UCLA commissions), Jon Batiste, Kevin Puts, Meredith Monk, Stephen Hough, Paola Prestini, Christopher Cerrone, Mark Bennett, Jeff Beal, Max Richter, and Marc Schubring, and will also include selected works from the original Liaisons collection.
Program will include new works (split between the 7 pm evening event) by Timo Andres and Ted Hearne (CAP UCLA commissions), Jon Batiste, Kevin Puts, Meredith Monk, Stephen Hough, Paola Prestini, Christopher Cerrone, Mark Bennett, Jeff Beal, Conrad Tao, Max Richter, and Marc Schubring, and will also include selected works from the original Liaisons collection.
Selections featuring new works re-imagined by today’s leading composers in jazz, film, theater, and classical music. Program will feature the world premiere of Conrad Tao's two-piano version of "Move On" as well as new works (split between the Friday 3/27 event in Buttenweiser Hall at 8 pm) by Jon Batiste, Kevin Puts, Meredith Monk, Stephen Hough, Ted Hearne, Timo Andres, Paola Prestini, Christopher Cerrone, Mark Bennett, Jeff Beal, Max Richter, and Marc Schubring, and will also include selected works from the original Liaisons collection.
Program will include new works (split between the Sunday 3/29 event in Kaufmann Concert Hall at 3 pm) by Jon Batiste, Kevin Puts, Meredith Monk, Stephen Hough, Ted Hearne, Timo Andres, Paola Prestini, Christopher Cerrone, Mark Bennett, Jeff Beal, Max Richter, and Marc Schubring, and will also include selected works from the original Liaisons collection.
Derek BERMEL: Fetch (2004) (for speaking pianist)
Bruce STARK: Urban Nocturnes (2014) (US Premiere)
Featuring performances by: Pianists Sarah Cahill, Anthony de Mare, Lisa Moore, Kathleen Supove, Jerome Kitzke, and oboist Keve Wilson
Selected Works
Works by: Nils Vigeland, David Rakowski, Ethan Iverson, Mason Bates, Mark Anthony Turnage, Fred Hersch, Eve Beglarian, Eric Rockwell, Tania Leon, Duncan Sheik and Steve Reich.
Works by William Bolcom, Ricky Ian Gordon, Gabriel Kahane, Nico, Muhly, Steve Reich, Frederic Rzewski, David Shire, Wynton Marsalis, Kenji Bunch, Andy Akiho, Rodney Sharman, Paul Moravec, Jake Heggie and Anthony de Mare
with new works by Justin Hines, Daniel Felsenfeld, Angelica Negron, and Eleanor Sandresky.
Performed by Anthony de Mare, Blair McMillen, Pam Goldberg and Phylis Chen
7 pm Pre-Concert Conversation with the Artist
Actors TBA
A theatrical evening celebrating the 150th Birthday year of Erik Satie featuring a cross-section of his piano works in addition to works by Debussy, Poulenc, Milhaud, Antheil, Thomson, Cage, Monk, Glass, and others.
(as part of the SERIOUS UK Concert Tour)
(as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival and SERIOUS UK Concert Tour)
(as part of the SERIOUS UK Concert Tour)
(This concert is part of the "Nepalese Seasons: Rain & Ritual" exhibition)
(plus) Workshop and Discussion on "The Liaisons Project".
Session 2: 5:30 - 7 pm
Performance, Workshop and Discussion
Sunday - July 17th, 2016
4 pm, 6 pm and 7:30 pm
Anthony de Mare will perform Kitzke's Sunflower Sutra (1999) written especially for him as part of this event.
Anthony de Mare and Blair McMillen, pianos
Piano Seminars, Master Classes, Private Lessons and Concerts
Sunday, June 9th through the 16th. Festival continues through June 29th.
Piano Seminars, Master Classes, Private Lessons and Concerts throughout the week
June 9th through the 16th. Festival continues through June 29th.
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Works for Speaking/Singing Pianist by Frederic Rzewski, Jerome Kitzke, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Derek Bermel and Rodney Sharman.
AMAZONiTUNES
Piano Music by Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison
AMAZON
Works for Piano (and Vocals) by John Cage and Meredith Monk
AMAZONiTUNES
featuring De Profundis, Piano Piece No. 4, Sonata, Winnsboro
AMAZON
Solo, Chamber and Orchestral works with the Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra
Music by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
(“Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental”)
Music by Bernadette Speach (“Sonata”)
Music by Christopher Butterfield
"Warm Waxing Wail"
Music by Ricardo Lorenz - Orquesta Sinfonica de Barquisimeto
Works for Speaking/Singing Pianist by Frederic Rzewski, Jerome Kitzke, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Derek Bermel and Rodney Sharman.
AMAZONiTUNES
Piano Music by Charles Ives, Henry Cowell and Lou Harrison
AMAZON
Works for Cello and Piano by Astor Piazzolla & Joaquin Nin (with Maya Beiser, cello)
AMAZONiTUNES
Works for Piano (and Vocals) by John Cage and Meredith Monk
AMAZONiTUNES
featuring De Profundis, Piano Piece No. 4, Sonata, Winnsboro
AMAZON
Solo, Chamber and Orchestral works with the Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra
Music by Orlando Jacinto Garcia
(“Any Resemblance Is Purely Coincidental”)
Music by Bernadette Speach (“Sonata”)
Music by Christopher Butterfield
"Warm Waxing Wail"
Music by Ricardo Lorenz - Orquesta Sinfonica de Barquisimeto
Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
Speak!
Out of My Hands
Wizards & Wildmen
Pianos and Voices
John J. Becker - Monadnock Music Festival Orchestra
Oblivión
MSM recording
The Piano Music
Radio Bremen Recording
MSM Recording
Other Audio
PUBLICITY PHOTOS
Liaisons. Re-Imagining Sondheim recording promo video - ECM - Y
Liaisons Highlight Reel
New York, NY
Kenji Bunch: The Demon Barber
Steve REICH: Finishing the Hat
Ricky Ian GORDON: Every Day A Little Death
Pretty Women (from Sweeney Todd)
Paul MORAVEC: I Think About You
Ethan Iverson: Send in the Clowns
LIAISONS: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano
“To hear composers take my work and take it seriously… it’s a thrill.”
- Stephen Sondheim
Conceived by concert pianist Anthony de Mare, LIAISONS is a landmark commissioning and concert project based on the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim. The project has brought together 36 of the world’s foremost contemporary composers from across the musical spectrum, inviting them to “re-imagine” one of Sondheim’s songs as a solo piano piece.
The result is a brand new world-class piano repertory that reveals Sondheim’s influence across multiple genres, generations and continents, making the case for him as one of the 20th century’s greatest composers. Performed exclusively by de Mare through 2016, individual pieces can be combined to form an infinite variety of concert, recital and residency programs.
LIAISONS has played to critical and popular acclaim in cities throughout the U.S. and Canada, including world premieres of the first 32 pieces in two sold-out concerts at Symphony Space in 2012 and 2013. The entire collection is now available on ECM Records (September 2015), and in the fall of 2015 de Mare will perform all 36 pieces across a series of concerts at Birdland Jazz Club (September), the Sheen Center (October) and Symphony Space (November).
Real-time updates about concerts and pre-orders can be found on the Liaisons Project Facebook page
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