Barbara Govatos, Music Director
PO Box 3537 
Wilmington, DE 19807-3537
302.455.0246

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Marcantonio Barone, piano


MARCANTONIO BARONE Pianist Marcantonio Barone has given solo recitals in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, London, St. Petersburg, Moscow, and other American and European cities and has performed as soloist with major orchestras on four continents.  He has given the world premières of piano works by Ulysses Kay, George Rochberg, David Finko, and Gerald Levinson.
As a chamber musician, he performs annually as a member of the Lenape Chamber Ensemble, 1807 and Friends, and the Craftsbury Chamber Players, and at the Delaware Chamber Music Festival.
He studied with Eleanor Sokoloff at the Curtis Institute of Music and with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory of Music. Mr. Barone teaches piano, chamber music, and keyboard harmony at Swarthmore College, and he has been head of the piano department at the Bryn Mawr Conservatory of Music since 1980. His recordings are available on the Albany, Bridge, Capstone, and Centaur labels.

Festival Quartet
Barbara Govatos, violin
Hirono Oka, violin
Burchard Tang, viola
Clancy Newman, cello
 
Guest Artists
Charles Abramovic, piano

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.