CONDUCTOR / PIANIST / ORGANIST / TEACHER
REGISTERED JUILLIARD PRIVATE TEACHER (PIANO)
MEMBER: LOCAL 802 AFM / AGO
/ CONDUCTORS GUILD
E-MAIL: anthonydidonna@gmail.com
TRAINING:
The Juilliard School
Post-Graduate studies in Conducting with
Bruce Engel, M.M. The Juilliard School
Media Samples: PIANO ORGAN
(click to listen/download)
(Conducting video samples available upon request.)
RECENT CONDUCTING REPERTOIRE:
Bach - Orchestral Suite No. 3, Toccata and Fugue in D minor (arr. Stokowski)
Beethoven - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
Bernstein - West Side Story (complete score), Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, Candide Overture
Copland - Appalachian Spring (original 13 instrument version)
Frescobaldi - Toccata (arr. Slocum)
Mozart - Symphony No. 40
Respighi - Pini da Roma
Rodgers - Carousel (complete score), Victory at Sea (arr. Bennett), The Sound of Music (arr. Bennett)
Schubert - Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished"
Strauss, R. - Don Juan, Till Eulenspiegel, Also Sprach Zarathustra
Stravinsky - Suite from The Firebird (1919 version), Le Sacre du Printemps (selected movements)
Styne - Gypsy (complete score), Funny Girl (complete score)
von Suppe - Light Calvary Overture
RECENT CREDITS (2009-2010):
Timothy Drucker - Director
Musical Director
The Theatre Company @ CAP21 - New York, NY
Fat Camp
Alex Timbers -
Director
Asst. Musical Director,
Rehearsal Pianist Jason DeBord - Musical
Director
New York Musical Theatre Festival Connor Gallagher - Choreographer
The Acorn Theatre - New York,
NY
Stagedoor Manor
Musical Director
Stagedoor Manor - Loch Sheldrake, NY
Observed Conducting of
West Side Story on Broadway Patrick Vaccariello - Conductor
Beauty and the
Beast Michael Kosarin -
Musical Supervisor
Associate Conductor
Robert
Jess Roth - Director
NETworks Presentations, LLC
Kerrigan & Lowdermilk: May 2010 Demo Recording
Rehearsal Pianist
New York, NY
Stony Brook University Wind Ensemble Bruce Engel,
M.M. - Conductor
Piano Chair
Stony Brook University - Long
Island, NY
Funny Girl, featuring Lainie Kazan
Connor Gallagher -
Director
Associate Conductor,
Rehearsal Pianist John Fischer - Musical
Director
ReVision Theatre - Asbury
Park, NJ
Observed Keyboard I Book for
Wicked on Broadway
Observed Keyboard II Book for
Shrek The Musical on Broadway
Harmony, Kansas (working title)
Music Director (for various performances/readings/recordings)
New York, NY
Applause Theatricals
Musical Director, Pianist
New York, NY
Observed Keyboard II Book for
Mamma Mia! on Broadway
Observed Keyboard III Book for
The Little Mermaid on Broadway
Babes in Toyland Connor Gallagher -
Director
Vocal Director
Lincoln Center - New York, NY
Nunsense A-Men Michael Farrelly - Director
Musical Director
The Met School - Providence, RI
Amahl and the Night Visitors Hillary Nicholson - Director
Orchestral Pianist
Angell Blackfriars Theatre - Providence, RI
Walnut Hill School for the Arts
Summer Staff
Walnut Hill School for the Arts - Natick, MA
*Audition/class/workshop pianist for various NYC casting directors and theatre companies.
*References available upon request.