222 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

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Praised as “supple” by the New York Times and “an expert pianist” by the Boston Globe, Alison d'Amato has built a reputation as a dynamic, innovative, and versatile musician. Equally committed to solo, vocal, and instrumental chamber music, she is a valued member of a wide variety of pioneering and established organizations. Ms. d’Amato is currently co-director of the Florestan Recital Project, a unique group devoted to the research and performance of song. She is committed to working with musicians on creating new approaches to chamber music collaborations in colleges and conservatories, and has been directly involved in developing short- and long-term residencies that combine performance and teaching activities in exploring such repertoire. She has served as pianist and staff member of Opera Boston, a critically acclaimed company which recently presented the North American premiere of Peter Eotvos’s opera Angels in America. A prolific recitalist, Ms d’Amato enjoys many collaborations with today’s most exciting performers, and is sought after as a pianist and artistic advisor for recitals across North America. She recently moved to Toronto from Boston, and is enjoying a busy season of collaborations on both sides of the border.

In 2005, Ms. d’Amato appeared with mezzo-soprano Krista River in recital at New York’s Weill Recital Hall, in a program which included the NY premiere of Paul Preusser’s Let The Silence be Written Here, a cycle commissioned by Florestan Recital Project.  Ms. d’Amato is an enthusiastic advocate of new music, and has worked with and performed music by many of today's leading composers, including John Harbison, Ned Rorem, Elena Ruehr, and Yehudi Wyner. In 2004, she joined acclaimed soprano Janna Baty for premiere performances of “William Meredith: A Celebration in Words and Music,”a series of song recitals celebrating the U.S. poet laureate emeritus, with new works for piano and voice by several celebrated U.S. composers. Ms. d’Amato is currently producing a tour of Ned Rorem’s evening-length song cycle Evidence of Things Not Seen, a vocal chamber piece for four singers and piano that will serve as a special residency project at colleges and conservatories in Canada and the U.S.
During the summer of 2000, she joined flutist Mauricio Garcia in giving several concerts and master classes in Brazil, which culminated in a two-week professorship in chamber music at the 32nd Winter Arts Festival in Diamantina. Ms. d'Amato was a pianist at the Tanglewood Music Center in the Vocal Fellowship program during the summers of 2001 and 2002, and was subsequently awarded the Grace B. Jackson Prize, acknowledging her “extraordinary commitment of talent and energy.”