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Pianists Michael Coonrod and Danny Holt team up for beloved classics for piano duo by Mozart, Schubert, and Brahms, plus a lovely Gershwin transcription and a rowdy and playful dance by contemporary composer John Corigliano. Coonrod recently retired from almost five decades of teaching at Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan, where he shaped generations of young pianists. Holt was his student more than 25 years ago, and is thrilled to reunite with his former teacher!
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. In his free time he is building a diorama of his home town of Missoula, Montana with an HO scale train layout.
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 a small town on the coast of Maine. He continues to run Desert Hot Springs Classical Concerts, the concert series he founded in 2014.