Anthony de Mare, piano

Liasons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano

The brilliant songs of Stephen Sondheim find a second life as beguiling instrumentals in Anthony de Mare's acclaimed Liaisons project. The pianist and new-music champion has commissioned a wide range of prominent composers—including William Bolcom, Steve Reich, Jake Heggie, Mason Bates, Gabriel Kahane, Ethan Iverson, and Wynton Marsalis—to each re-imagine a favorite Sondheim song as a work for solo piano. The thrilling result is a set of fully realized compositions of nuance and subtlety, works that use the original themes as springboards for invention and showcase de Mare's formidable talents at the keyboard.