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Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano

Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center
Seattle, WA

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Liaisons is a landmark commissioning and concert project conceived by acclaimed concert pianist Anthony De Mare featuring the songs of legendary musical theater composer Stephen Sondheim.

Praised for his "muscularly virtuosic, remarkably uninhibited performance [and] impressive talents" (The New York Times), Anthony de Mare is recognized as one of the world's most versatile pianists, a foremost champion of contemporary music and a pioneer in the speaking-singing pianist genre. De Mare is currently touring Liaisons: Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano, a landmark commissioning and concert project of exclusive new works from Steve Reich, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR), Adam Guettel, Mason Bates, Ethan Iverson, Nico Muhly, Tania Leon and Mark Anthony Turnage, to name a few, that brings the work of Stephen Sondheim into the concert hall. Other recent performance highlights include: the national tour of The American Piano with pianist Steven Mayer and scholar Joseph Horowitz; Playing With Myself, a multi-media concert event; Missing Peace, an eclectic series of old and new works inspired by the exhibition The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama; Cool ~ A Journey into the Influence of Jazz; and Unities: Music of Pride and Celebration. De Mare has also collaborated and performed with the Lark Quartet, the Bang-On-A-Can All Stars, Meredith Monk/The House and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, among many others. De Mare has nearly twenty recordings in his discography. His most recent recording, Speak: The Speaking-Singing Pianist, the first disc devoted completely to this genre, was released in 2010 on the Innova label. Both Speak and Out of My Hands (KOCH Entertainment) were shortlisted for Grammy Awards in 2011 and 2005, respectively. He currently serves on the roster of Yamaha Artists and is a professor of piano at Manhattan School of Music and New York University.