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
Tickets to this performance are available three weeks before the concert date on this website. Click here to purchase in advance. Tickets may also be purchased at Crickets Corner Beach and Toy, 41 Shore Rd, the Ogunquit Welcome Center, 20 Shore Rd, and the Dunaway Center, 23 School St.
The Program:
Sonata in C Major, Hob. XVI:50 Haydn
Allegro
Adagio
Allegro molto
Mazurka in A Minor, Op. 59 No. 1 Chopin
Mazurka in A-Flat Major, Op. 59 No. 2
Mazurka in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 59 No. 3
Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Op. 35 Chopin
Grave; Doppio movimento
Scherzo
Marche funèbre: Lento
Finale: Presto
-Intermission-
Piano Variations (1930) Copland
Gaspard de la nuit Ravel
Ondine
Le gibet
Scarbo
Jonathan Bass
American pianist Jonathan Bass appears frequently throughout the United States and around the world as soloist and chamber musician. He is a regular presence at Symphony Hall and Jordan Hall in Boston, and at Tanglewood. His solo and chamber music recordings have received high acclaim from Gramophone Magazine. Internationally, he has performed in China, Israel, Japan, Lithuania, Poland, Spain, and Russia. He has been featured on many radio programs throughout the United States, including National Public Radio’s ‘Performance Today’. Bass has performed as concerto solo soloist with numerous orchestras, including the Boston Pops and the North Carolina Symphony. 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 was awarded First Prizes in the 1993 Joanna Hodges International Piano
Competition, the 1984 American National Chopin Competition, the 1989 American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship Competition, and the 1983 National Arts Club Competition. He also received the Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the 1987 Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition.
Collaborative highlights include multiple guest appearances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and recitals with violinist Joseph Silverstein. He also partners with his wife, BSO violinist Tatiana Dimitriades, in the Boston Duo. For more than 20 years, as the pianist and a founding member of the Walden Chamber Players, he performed on a variety of chamber music series and residencies across the United States and Canada.
He has recorded music by Larry Bell, Samuel Barber, Marion Bauer, Amy Beach, Paul Bowles, Daniel Pinkham, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston, Ned Rorem, Gerhard Schedl, Augusta Read Thomas, as well as Bach, Chopin, and Scriabin.
A graduate of the Juilliard School as a student of Adele Marcus and Sasha Gorodnitski, Jonathan Bass holds a Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University School of Music, where he studied with, and was teaching assistant to, Menahem Pressler. He also studied at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow, a rare opportunity for an American at that time. Bass is a Professor of Piano at Boston Conservatory at Berklee and serves on the faculty of the New England Conservatory Preparatory School. His students have won many competition prizes, and he has given numerous master classes across the country.
Jonathan Bass is a Steinway Artist.