Virtuoso pianist, Jonathan Bass, brings his wide-ranging repertoire and talent to Ogunquit for the first time. Jonathan enjoys a multi-faceted career, and appears frequently throughout the United States and around the world as soloist and chamber musician. Of his 1994 Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall debut, New York Concert Review wrote, “A technical presence to be reckoned with…soaring with a feeling of lyrical discovery.”
“Bass is everything a pianist should be: encompassing technical brilliance without showiness, musical and emotional depth, careful thought and an architectural sense of structure. He has a huge dynamic range, and what impressed me the most about his performance was his extremely delicate and controlled pianissimo, probably the hardest thing to do well on the piano.” Christopher Hyde, Maine Classical Beat
The Program:
Haydn: Sonata in C Major
Chopin: Three Mazurkas
Chopin: Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35
Copland: Piano Variations
Ravel Suite: Gaspard de la Nuit
Jonathan Bass
Jonathan Bass launched his career at the age of 16 when he was awarded the Charles Hayden Memorial Scholarship for Piano Achievement at the Julliard School, where he studied for nine years. As a teenager, he further honed his craft over summers at prestigious summer camps and music festivals. He gave his New York debut at Carnegie Hall as first prize winner of the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition.
Other awards he has received over the course of his career include but are not limited to: first prize in the American Pianists Association, Beethoven Fellowship Competition, the American National Chopin Competition, the National Arts Club Competition, and second prize in the Washington International Competition, Young Keyboard Artists Competition, and the Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition. Most recently he was awarded the Clara Slater Memorial Award at the New England Conservatory of Music.
His international performances include notable appearances in China, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Poland and Russia. Hundreds of his recitals have brought him to music centers throughout the U.S. including New York, Boston, Chicago, Indianapolis, Cleveland, Wahington DC, Miami, Palm Desert and Tanglewood.
A Steinway Artist, he has been featured on numerous series aired by National Public Radio’s “Performance Today,” New York’s WQXR, Chicago’s WFMT and Boston’s WGBH. He has also performed with many members of the Boston Symphony including concertmaster Malcolm Lowe and principal cellist Jules Eskin.
He regularly performs with his spouse, Boston Symphony violinist Tatiana Dimitriades, as the Boston Duo, throughout New England.
He has a Doctorate of Music Degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he worked with Menaheim Pressler of the renowned Beaux Arts Trio. He served on the faculties of San Jose State University, Boston University School of Music, Boston Conservatory, and for 30 years has served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music.