Resume

• Education and Training
• Faculty Appointments
• Relevant Experience
• Selected Performance Experience

• Operatic, Orchestral and Musical Staff Positions
• Recordings
• Honors and Awards

Fellow, Vocal Piano
        Tanglewood Music Center, Lenox, MA, 2001, 2002

Double Master of Music in Piano Performance and Collaborative Piano, 1998
        Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH

Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance with an English minor, Dec. 1995
        Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, OH

Undergraduate Double-degree program in English and Piano Performance, 1989-1992
        Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music, Oberlin, OH

• Co-create and administrate artistic vision for growing song organization.
• Develop short- and long-term artistic residencies for college music departments, including Dickinson College, Boston Conservatory, and SUNY Fredonia.
• Plan and coordinate premieres, artists, and repertoire for concert season.

• Co-create and administrate artistic vision for summer song institute
• Coordinator of 10-day performance festival in 2007, which included daily noon and evening concerts, featuring internationally renowned guest faculty such as Graham Johnson, Margo Garrett, Tracy Dahl, Stephen Varcoe, and many others.
• Coordinated daily teaching, masterclass schedules, and repertoire assignments for Professional Performance program.

• Guest teacher for masterclasses and individual lessons in a wide variety of vocal and instrumental repertoire.
• Engagements since 2004 include: University of Toronto, Royal Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, SUNY Fredonia, Dickinson College, Boston University, Boston Conservatory.

• Rehearse and perform with several singers in intensive 3-week program.

• Planned and produced concerts for a semi-monthly chamber music series.
• Devised varied chamber music programs for a wide-ranging audience.

• Scheduled pianists in weekly lessons for voice department.
• Acted as administrative liaison between voice and collaborative piano departments.
• Arranged meetings and studio classes for collaborative piano department.

• Pianist in several concerts throughout 10-day concert series, including recitals with celebrated recitalists Martha Guth, Lynne McMurtry, and Paul Sperry.

• Pianist and Musical Director for acclaimed production of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites,     featuring soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian.
• Review in the Globe and Mail stated “[The music] had a superb presentation…The strength of Opera in Concert's costumeless, setless, only symbolically staged presentation Sunday was the authoritative grasp of the whole work by its music director Alison d'Amato.”

• Pianist in several concerts throughout yearly concert series.
• Pianist and director of original presentation of Wolf’s Italienisches Liederbuch (2006).
• Collaboration with composer Ned Rorem for Boston premiere of Rorem’s evening-length song cycle, Evidence of Things Not Seen (2003 premiere, continuing repeat performances in various locations).   

• Collaboration with mezzo-soprano Lynne McMurtry on song recital featuring North American composers’ settings of Walt Whitman.
• Featured in list of “Top Recitals of 2006” by Toronto Star reviewer John Terauds, who stated “Art doesn’t get any better than this.”

• Performance of Faure’s Quartet for Piano and Strings in g minor.

• Performance of Claude Vivier’s Paramirabo and Beethoven’s Quintet for Piano and Winds?
• Review of concert in the Boston Globe deemed Paramirabo “a radiant performace of an unusual work.”

• Produced and performed in special Contemporary Music Concert, featuring new collaborations between Firebird Ensemble and composers Osvaldo Golijov and Shirish Korde.

• Pianist/coordinator for Florestan Recital Project’s guest performance of Evidence of Things Not Seen.

• Pianist/keyboardist for North American premiere of Peter Eotvos’s opera Angels in America.

• Recital with Concert Artists Guild mezzo-soprano Krista River.

• Program of song and piano music, created with Concert Artists Guild mezzo-soprano Krista River,  inspired by Lorenzo Da Ponte’s activities at Columbia University.

• Guest appearance of Florestan Recital Project in conjunction with Edgar Degas exhibit.

• Guest appearance with Florestan Recital Project in centerpiece concert of international symposium,   presenting works of renowned composer Daniel Pinkham.

• Concert tour with soprano Janna Baty, featuring world premieres of commissioned works in collaboration with poets William Meredith and Richard Harteis

• Special fundraising event for Senator John Kerry, featuring collaborations with baritone Sanford Sylvan, soprano Janna Baty, and other Boston celebrities

• Performance of Three Preludes for solo piano by Elena Ruehr on innovative new music series

• Guest appearance with Florestan Recital Project at concert honoring composer Daniel Pinkham.

• Performance of chamber music by Roger Sessions and Mario Davidovsky, featured on concerts devoted to music by Fromm lecturers at Harvard University.

• Music Director/pianist for acclaimed production of Poulenc’s Les Dialogues des Carmelites featuring soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian.
• Music Director/pianist for Fall 2008 production of Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux.

• Perform and prepare concerts with several artists in celebrated festival
• Pianist and repetiteur for productions of The Mikado and Le nozze di Figaro

• Assess artists’ materials for award-winning company’s seasonal roster
• Assist in coordinating auditions
• Pianist for music/staging rehearsals for seasonal productions
• Lead rehearsals in conductor’s absence

• Pianist for North American premiere of Peter Eotvos’s Angels in America.
• Pianist for operas by Thomas Ades (Powder Her Face) and John Harbison (Full Moon in March) in award-winning festival of fully staged/orchestrated contemporary opera.
• Led rehearsals in conductor’s absence.
• Pianist for performances and commercially released recording.

• Pianist for music/staging rehearsals for several productions.
• Led rehearsals in conductor’s absence.

• Pianist for Boston and Tanglewood Festival production of Lukas Foss opera, Griffelkin.
• Led rehearsals in conductor’s absence
• Assisted in preparing chorus for Boston and Tanglewood Festival performances
• Pianist for performances and commercially released recording

• Frequent keyboardist for performances and recordings, 2000-present
• Pianist on commercially released recordings of music by Michael Gandolfi, Arthur Berger and operas by Lukas Foss (Griffelkin) and John Harbison (Full Moon in March)

• Reheasal pianist for Thea Musgrave opera premiere, The Mockingbird
• Pianist for chamber and orchestral performances

Y2K Compliant: works by Michael Gandolfi (compact disc: BMOP Sound, 2008)
        Featured chamber pianist with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor

Griffelkin, by Lukas Foss (compact disc; Chandos 10067, 2003)
        Featured orchestral pianist with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor

Arthur Berger: Complete Orchestral Works (compact disc: New World, 2003)
        Featured orchestral pianist with Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Gil Rose, conductor