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Tenor
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Piero Bonamico |
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Piero Bonamico leads a
diverse musical life from his home in central Vermont.
He has conducted the Mad River Chorale since 1996. Its
recent repertoire includes Mozart’s Requiem
(2006), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (2006), Rossini’s
Petite Messe Solennelle (2007), U.S. premieres of
Christoph Schönherr’s Magnificat, the Groovy
Version of Ox (2007), and Peter Schindler’s Missa in
Jazz (2009) and Glenn McClure’s mass Saint
Francis in the Americas (2008) at which the composer
himself performed and declared the choir “terrific” and
the performance “among the best he had heard.” In 2009
Mr. Bonamico was appointed conductor of the South
Burlington Community Chorus and he founded the Young
Singers Chorus of Vermont where he will conduct two of
the ensembles. Mr. Bonamico has served as musical
director for 42nd Street, Anything Goes, Beauty and
the Beast, City of Angels, Fiddler On the Roof,
Footloose the Musical, Grease, Les Miserables, Little
Shop of Horrors, Little Women, Once Upon a Mattress,
Seussical the Musical, Sweet Charity, Tale of the
Mandarin Ducks, The Wiz, Urinetown, West Side Story,
and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. He is an
active guest conductor at festivals and workshops.
Mr. Bonamico performs regularly as a solo vocalist and
is a founding member of Counterpoint. He made his New
York solo debut in The Vegas Show at the Laurie
Beechman Theater on West 42nd Street and his Boston
debut in Act IV, A Night of Music and Musings at
the renowned Sculler’s Jazz Club. The Vegas Show was his
third project with New York jazz pianist Gregory Toroian
following A Night of Italian Song (2007) and
Songs You’ll Know (2004). Of the latter, American
Record Review’s Jim Lowe wrote: “...Vocally Bonamico is
always attractive, and in songs like the Kurt Weill-
Maxwell Anderson ‘September Song’ and the Lerner and
Loewe ‘On the Street Where You Live,’ his mellifluous
tenor was applied expressively and attractively… the
meaning of each song clearly conveyed to the receptive
standing-room-only house.” In 2009 Mr. Bonamico was a
featured act in the Provincetown cabaret festival
alongside cabaret legends Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso,
and in August 2010 will participate in the prestigious
International Cabaret Conference at Yale. He made his
theatrical debut in 2005 as “Jamie” in Jason Robert
Brown’s The Last Five Years and played the role
of “Chris” in a concert version of Miss Saigon in
2007.
Mr. Bonamico co-authored with conductor Donald Neuen the
collegiate textbook Choral Concepts (Wadsworth,
2002), and edited or co-authored other publications
including: Artistic Musical Conducting (Neuen,
DVD, 2003), Empower the Choir (Neuen, Textbook,
2004), Choral Excellence for Treble Voices (Marie
Stultz, Textbook, 2006) and Success for Adolescent
Singers (Patrick Freer, DVD, 2006). |
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