Anthony Molinaro

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Work in Progress

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Released: Feb 23, 2010

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Work in Progress
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I Got Rhythm - LIVE (Encore)
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The Goldberg Variations
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Embraceable You
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Genre: Classical / Jazz / Other
Location CHICAGO, Illinois, US
Profile Views: 25741
Last Login: 5/26/2010
Member Since 2/16/2006
Website www.anthonymolinaro.com
Record Label Nineteen-Eight Records
Type of Label Indie
Bio
"19/8 (Molinaro)" - PART I. With guest Stefano Di Battista playing at Rome's Alexander Platz Jazz Club in November 2006. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..Rachmaninoff .. .. Piano Concerto 3 "Big" Cadenza .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 Mvt. III .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Gershwin Prelude 3 .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "An original, often iconoclastic thinker equipped with a leonine technique." .. - The Chicago Tribune .. .. "The best Gershwin piano CD I’ve ever heard!" .. - Steve Ramm's IN THE GROOVE .. .. "Edge-of-the-seat brilliance…absolutely first rate performances" .. - Salt Lake City Deseret News .. .. "About the most lively interpretation (Rhapsody in Blue) one could imagine." .. - Chicago Sun-Times .. .. "A freshness that I have found in no other performance (the Goldberg Variations)... you have to physically respond to its infectious energy. .. - Listener magazine .. .. .. .. Hello! I am a pianist/composer from Chicago. You can read more details on my website, but in a nutshell my career began more or less as a classical pianist after winning The 1997 Walter W. Naumburg International Piano Competition in NYC. Since then I have toured throughout the U.S. and Europe playing solo recitals, with orchestras (including the 2004 premier of my own Concerto for Piano and Orchestra), and more. Currently, I am most excited about a new quartet (piano, bass, drums, sax) I have been developing that features original compositions of mine. .. .. All of my recordings have been released on Nineteen-Eight Records, an expanding label that I founded in 2001. My newest recording, Canto Per Mio Padre, just came out (Jan 2010) and features music of Schubert / Liszt, Debussy, Brahms, Rachmaninoff, and one original composition.... As for the music here on myspace, I just added some new tracks: The first one, "Work in Progress" features me on Rhodes and the second is a live encore performance of "I Got Rhythm" after playing Prokofiev's Piano Concerto 3 with The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra in 2007. .. .. When not performing, I enjoy working out and running and have recently caught the triathlon bug. I also teach at Loyola University Chicago. ....
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..J.S. BACH.., Miles, Keith Jarrett, Glenn Gould, Meshell Ndgeocello, Michael Brecker, Sergei Prokofiev, Jaco Pastorius, Gyorgy Ligeti, Brad Mehldau, Quentin Tarantino and many many more... .. .. Some favorite movies: A Fish Called Wanda, Rushmore, Cinema Paradiso, Pulp Fiction, The Big Lebowski, Sexy Beast and Magnolia to name but a few. I am still sick over the very mediocre The Departed winning best picture....
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