Piero Bonamico

Piero Bonamico leads a diverse musical life from his home in Vermont. He has conducted the Mad River Chorale since 1996, with recent repertoire including Mozart’s Requiem (2006), Mendelssohn’s Elijah (2006), Rossini’s Petite Messe Solennelle (2007), the U.S. premieres of Christoph Sch̦nherr’s Magnificat, the Groovy Version of Ox (2007), and Peter Schindler’s Missa in Jazz (2009) and Glenn McClure’s mass Saint Francis in the Americas (2008) at which the composer himself performed and remarked that the choir was “terrific” and that the performance was “among the best he had heard.” In 2009 he was appointed as conductor of The South Burlington Community Chorus and founded the Young Singers Chorus of Vermont where he will conduct two of the organization’s ensembles. Mr. Bonamico has served as musical director for 42nd Street, Anything Goes, Beauty and the Beast, City of Angels, Fiddler On the Roof, Footloose the Musical, Grease, Les Miserables, Little Shop of Horrors, Little Women, Once Upon a Mattress, Seussical the Musical, Sweet Charity, Tale of the Mandarin Ducks, The Wiz, Urinetown, West Side Story, and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and is an active guest conductor at festivals and workshops.

Mr. Bonamico performs regularly as a solo vocalist and is a founding member of Robert De Cormier’s ensemble Counterpoint. He made his New York solo debut in The Vegas Show at the Laurie Beechman Theater on West 42nd Street and his Boston debut in Act IV, A Night of Music and Musings at the renowned Sculler’s Jazz Club. The Vegas Show was his third project with New York jazz pianist Gregory Toroian following A Night of Italian Song (2007) and Songs You’ll Know (2004). Of the latter concert, American Record Review’s Jim Lowe wrote: “...Vocally Bonamico is always attractive, and in songs like the Kurt Weill- Maxwell Anderson “September Song” and the Lerner and Loewe “On the Street Where You Live,” his mellifluous tenor was applied expressively and attractively‰¥Ï the meaning of each song clearly conveyed to the receptive standing-room-only house.”

In 2009 he was a featured act in the Provincetown cabaret festival alongside cabaret legends Billy Stritch and Jim Caruso and will participate in the prestigous International Cabaret Conference at Yale in August 2010. Mr. Bonamico made his theatrical debut in 2005 as “Jamie” in Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years and played the role of “Chris” in a concert version of Miss Saigon in 2007.

Mr. Bonamico served as co-author with conductor Donald Neuen on the collegiate textbook Choral Concepts published by Wadsworth in January 2002, and was editor or co-author of many other publications including: Artistic Musical Conducting (Neuen, DVD, 2003), Empower the Choir (Neuen, Textbook, 2004), Choral Excellence for Treble Voices (Marie Stultz, Textbook, 2006) and Success for Adolescent Singers (Patrick Freer, DVD, 2006).

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