Piano Duo Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt - Midday Concert @1:00 on April 25

Piano Duo Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt

ELLSWORTH - Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) offers its next Midday Concert @ 1:00 on Friday, April 25 with pianists Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt playing a 4-hand piano program.

The concert will be held at the Moore Community Center Theater, 125 State Street in Ellsworth, Maine. The series is sponsored by Ellsworth Community Music Institute (ECMI) with funding assistance from The City of Ellsworth. Admission is free to the public.

Pianists Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt team up for beloved classics for piano duo by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, and more. Coonrod recently retired from almost five decades of teaching at Interlochen Arts Academy, where he shaped generations of young pianists. Holt recently relocated from Southern California to Downeast Maine, and was Coonrod's student more than 25 years ago. He is thrilled to welcome his former teacher to Maine for concerts this spring.

Dr. Michael Coonrod is a retired piano faculty member from the Interlochen Center for the Arts where he tutored classical piano students for 46 years. During that time, he earned his Doctor of Musical Arts in Performance from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. He has had an extensive performing and teaching career in several countries. He performed 20th Century piano music at the Chopin Academy in Warsaw Poland and participated in the Amalfi Music Festival in Maiori, Italy for five summers. He gave several master classes at the FaceArt Piano School in Shanghai China. He has five compact disc recordings to his credit–two of which are devoted to the music of Franz Schubert. Visit his website at: michaelcoonrod.com In his free time he is building a diorama of his home town of Missoula, Montana with an HO scale train layout.

Called “phenomenal” by the late music critic Alan Rich, and hailed as one of the “local heroes” of the Los Angeles music scene (LAcitybeat.com), pianist Danny Holt performs around the globe in concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hollywood Bowl), clubs (Joe’s Pub, The Blue Whale, Copenhagen Jazzhouse) art galleries (MASS MoCA, Hammer Museum), churches, living rooms, and wherever else he can find a piano and someone to listen. His recorded catalog includes the recent solo album “Piano Music of Mike Garson” and other solo, chamber, and orchestral releases on the Innova Recordings label, pfMENTUM, New World Records, Deutsche Grammophon, Acis Productions, and L’st records. After spending most of the past two decades in Southern California, Holt recently relocated to East Machias, where he enjoys being surrounded by natural beauty, and a slower pace of life. http://www.dannyholt.net

The final concert of the 2024-2025 Midday Concert series will be held on May 23 with Clare Monfredo, cello; Edward Kass, bass; Conrad Winslow, piano.

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