Tony Caramia

A co-employee professor of piano as well as the director of piano pedagogy studies at Eastman College of Music in Rochester, NY, Tony Caramia is constantly on the explore the entire spectral range of the ragtime tradition. His debut recording, Nimble Fingered Gentleman, released in 1996, paid homage towards the complex, syncopated, and novelty piano playing of English composer and pianist Billy Mayerl; while his second recording, Brass Knuckles, released a 12 months later, took today’s method of ragtime playing. Zebra Stripes, released in 1998, analyzed the syncopated single piano music of Western and ladies composers. Caramia frequently performs piano rags made up by fellow faculty member Brian Dykstra. Playing piano from age seven, Caramia analyzed with Claudette Sorel and David Yeomans, and structure with Walter S. Hartley. The receiver of undergraduate and graduate levels in piano overall performance from the Condition University or college of NY in Fredonia, he trained piano in the University or college of Illinois from 1975 until 1990. Caramia offers followed such jazz performers as Urbie Green, Clark Terry, Dick Johnson, and Terry Gibbs, and offers appeared in collaboration with pianists Expenses Dobbins and Marian McPartland. He offers served an designer residency in the Scott Joplin Ragtime Event in Sedalia, MO. A normal reviewer for American Music Instructor magazine, he’s the co-author from the MTNA/IAJE Jazz Research Guide.