Anthony Molinaro

"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.