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BARRY ALEXANDER, Executive Director
Barry Alexander is the President and CEO of Alexander & Associates,
a public relations firm he launched after a twenty-year
career as an opera singer. With a roster of clients
that includes major artistic foundations and corporations
worldwide, he continues to use his experience
as a classical musician to not only guide the
careers of a number of classical artists and musical
institutions, but to teach voice as well.
As a lyric baritone, Mr. Alexander earned a reputation
for being as much at home with the coloratura
literature of Gluck and Rossini, as the more dramatic
works of Puccini and Verdi. He has been hailed
by L’Orient-Le Jour as “a singer of
great style and feeling,” while Dean Nolan
pronounces his performances as being “of
the highest type, strong and virile,” and
Mark Lipson is quoted as saying that “a
seemingly impossible combination of talents have
made Barry Alexander ‘the Great.’ ”
Mr. Alexander holds degrees from
Princeton and the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.
He has been a principal soloist with the Michigan
Opera Theatre and the Warsaw Chamber Opera, and
continues to perform as a recitalist.
COSMO BUONO, Executive Director
Cosmo Buono first came to prominence as a member of the duo piano team of Bradshaw & Buono. Specialists in literature written for one piano four hands and two pianos, the artists did much to restore awareness of rare works written by Chopin, Liszt, Rossini, and Schubert.
After three decades of performances throughout the world, and with a number of major orchestras, the late Mr. Bradshaw and Mr. Buono began the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition as a way of creating exposure for young artists, while providing a means for their entrance into the world of professional performance. Since its beginning in 2003, the Competition has had more than fifty winners, chosen from thousands of applicants.
A New Jersey native, Mr. Buono
completed his studies at New York University,
Bard College, and The Juilliard School. As
a soloist, he has been heard throughout the
United States, Europe, and Japan, while performing
with both the Munich Philharmonic and Danish
State Radio Orchestras. His discography includes
Grammy-nominated recordings of works by Liszt
and Schubert with Mr. Bradshaw, as well as
CDs featuring the music of Debussy and Rossini.
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