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Our 23rd Season! |
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| Barbara Govatos, Music Director |
PO Box 3537
Wilmington, DE 19807-3537
302.455.0246 |
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Marcantonio Barone, piano |
Pianist Marcantonio Barone is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, where he worked with Eleanor Sokoloff. He continued his studies with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory. A prizewinner at both the 1985 Busoni and 1987 Leeds International Piano Competitions, Mr. Barone has performed often as a guest artist at The Philadelphia Orchestra Chamber Music Concerts, and with numerous Philadelphia ensembles including Orchestra 2001, the Academy Chamber Players, 1807 and Friends, and the Wister Quartet; as well as with the Audubon and Colorado Quartets, the Richmond Chamber Players, and the Craftsbury Chambers Players; and at Music at Gretna and the Delaware Chamber Music Festival. He has also been a member of the Lenape Chamber Ensemble since 1987. Mr. Barone’s recital engagements in America and abroad have included appearances at the Metropolitan Museum and Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York and the National Gallery in Washington; on the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series in Chicago; at the Ravinia Festival and San Francisco’s Midsummer Mozart Festival; at the Wigmore Hall in London, the Rachmaninoff Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, and the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Filarmoniya; and at prestigious concert halls in Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy, and Malta. In addition, he has performed as soloist with major orchestras in the United States and abroad. Mr. Barone currently serves as head of the piano department and assistant director of the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music, where he has taught since 1980. |
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This program is made possible, in part, by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency committed to promoting and supporting the arts in Delaware. For additional information on arts activities in Delaware, visit the Delaware Division of the Arts website. |
MISSION STATEMENT
The Delaware Chamber Music Festival will extend and increase interest in classical music in Delaware by bringing to the public top quality chamber music performances at an affordable cost to attendees. Offerings will include chamber music concerts plus outreach programs for families and younger audiences, and will feature innovative mixes of traditional and contemporary classical music. |
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