“As a performer, above all, my goal is to engage in a meaningful musical dialogue with my audience, to uncover and share the unique worlds that lie beneath the notes encoding a written score, and to map out and navigate within each piece of music the thoughtful and emotional journey to be shared.” -Bonamici
An American pianist originally from Livonia, Michigan, Anthony Bonamici is 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, 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 Theater (Moscow), and with members of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Russian Early Music Ensemble, Barocco Concertato, Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra, and The Moscow Virtuosi.
Anthony holds graduate degrees in both Piano Performance and Music Composition and has studied historical performance practice on both the harpsichord and fortepiano. He attended the Moscow Conservatory, Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Mannes School of Music in New York City, and the University of Connecticut. His teachers include the renowned American pianist Richard Goode, the prolific Russian composer and protégé of Dmitri Shostakovich, Boris Tishchenko, pianists Naum Shtarkman, Yuri Airapetyan, Elena Shishko, Angelina Gadeliya, John Perry, and Audrey Axinn. He has played in masterclasses for Rosalyn Tureck, Paul Badura-Skoda, Malcolm Bilson, Eteri Andjaparidze, and Vladimir Feltsman.
Valuing a connection with his roots in Michigan, Anthony has made frequent solo appearances with his hometown local orchestra, the Livonia Symphony Orchestra and performed for numerous other local musical societies including the Dearborn Symphony concert series, the Steinway Society of Michigan, the Schoolcraft College noon concert series, the Cranbrook Music Guild concert series, and the Ann Arbor Piano Teacher’s Guild. Currently living in Connecticut, Anthony has performed for the Chopin Society of Connecticut and adjudicated for the Connecticut Bach Festival and Competition. He teaches piano at the University of Hartford, Hartt School Community Division.
While living in Saint Petersburg, Bonamici founded a small workshop producing harpsichords and other early keyboard instruments. Over the course of eight years, building harpsichords in Russia from materials imported from France, Bonamici Clavecins LLC earned an outstanding reputation and sold harpsichords to educational institutions and concert halls such as the Mariinsky Theater, Saint Petersburg Philharmonic, Saint Petersburg Conservatory, Mikhailovsky Theater, Vladivostok Academy of Arts, Arkhangelsk Philharmonic, the Alfred Schnittke Institute of Music, and others.
From 2007 until his return to the United States in 2016, Anthony taught undergraduate and graduate piano performance and chamber music at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A. I. Herzen, adjudicated competitions, and gave masterclasses. Being fluent in Russian and English, Anthony aided in the translation of personal letters between Boris Tishchenko and Dmitry Shostakovich and has translated several musicological essays from Russian into English for publication in Russia.
In 2019, Anthony collaborated with the recording label ReachSound.Art to release his first solo album, Anthony Bonamici. J. Haydn and W. Mozart Piano Sonatas, available on major music streaming platforms.