Live Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto Thu 6 – Sat 8 March

Lionel Bringuier has already travelled extensively across the globe at the invitation of symphonies, chamber orchestras and opera houses, and in the 2023/24 season he continues the position of Artiste Associé in his hometown with l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice. This unique appointment gives him the opportunity to curate a series of special programmes which he will also conduct, and to invite several of his closest musical partners, which in this season include Khatia Buniatishvili, Philippe Bianconi, Daniel Müller-Schott, Renaud Capucon and Alexandre Tharaud.

Very well-known across Europe and most recently having served as Music Director of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich (2014–18), Bringuier has held previous posts at Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León in Valladolid, Orchestre de Bretagne and Ensemble Orchestral de Paris. The 2023/24 season will feature concerts with Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège, Dresden Philharmonie, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra and Orchestre National de Metz. Other highlights of this season include USA engagements with San Diego Symphony Orchestra and The Colburn School Orchestra, as well as BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, and Paris Conservatoir Orchestra.

Over the past decade Bringuier’s work across North America has developed a strong relationship many orchestras including, in the 2021/22 season, working with Houston Symphony and at the Aspen Music Festival. He has also worked extensively in Asia, conducting Tokyo Symphony Orchestra regularly and working with Seoul and Malaysian philharmonic orchestras. In 2019 he returned to Australia with a programme of Russian music with Sydney Symphony Orchestra and conducted a French programme with West Australian Symphony Orchestra in Perth.

Bringuier regularly collaborates with Yuja Wang, with whom he has recorded the Ravel Piano Concerto for Deutsche Grammophon as part of a complete cycle of the composer’s works. Other recordings include Chopin with Nelson Freire (DG) and Saint-Saëns with Renaud Capuçon and Gautier Capuçon (Erato) who are also regular partners. He works closely with some of the finest instrumentalists in the world, including Lisa Batiashvili, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Yefim Bronfman, Emanuel Ax, Leif Ove Andsnes and Janine Jansen.

Bringuier comes from a family of musicians and studied cello and conducting at the Conservatoire de Paris, winning the prestigious International Besançon Competition for Young Conductors only a year after graduating. He cares passionately about education, outreach, and developing the careers of emerging conductors and soloists. In September 2020 he served on the jury of La Maestra, the first international conducting competition for women, and continues to work with local schools in his hometown of Nice to introduce children to classical music and orchestral experiences.

Bringuier was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite by the French government and has been lauded with the Médaille d’or à l’unanimité avec les félicitations du jury à l’Académie Prince Rainier III de Monaco and the Médaille d’or from the City of Nice.

Pianist and educator Jonathan Mamora strives to uplift and positively influence others using music as a means for service.

An Indonesian-American and a native of Southern California, Jonathan has served as a church pianist and organist—the result of having been enrolled in piano lessons by his parents for the purpose of becoming a church musician. Jonathan aims to use music as service not only in the church, but also in the community through homes, schools, community centers, and the concert hall.

Acclaimed for his “poetic” and “most assured pianism,” “natural, songful lyricism,” and “rippl[ing] through virtuosic passagework” (The Dallas Morning News), Jonathan has performed throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, and he is a prize-winner of numerous piano competitions, most recently winning first prize in the Scottish International Piano Competition, Concurs Internacional de Música Maria Canals Barcelona, Olga Kern International Piano Competition, AntwerPiano International Competition, Dallas International Piano Competition, Virginia Waring International Piano Competition, American Virtuoso International Music Competition, “Sviatoslav Richter” International Piano Competition, Chautauqua Piano Competition, and Eastman Piano Concerto Competition. He made his concerto debut at the age of 13 with the La Sierra University Orchestra performing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and he has since performed with such orchestras as the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, New Mexico Philharmonic, Dallas Chamber Symphony, Jove Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Eastman Philharmonia, Waring Festival Orchestra, Coachella Valley Symphony, La Sierra University Wind Ensemble, and the Loma Linda University Church Orchestra. He was recently a featured artist for the Los Angeles Philharmonic Affiliates of the Desert. He has worked with such pianists as Jerome Lowenthal, Robert Levin, Alexander Kobrin, Olga Kern, Stanislav Ioudenitch, Antonio Pompa-Baldi, Sara Davis Buechner, and Jon Nakamatsu. Jonathan has a number of upcoming solo and concerto engagements in the United States, Europe, and Africa, as well as upcoming recording projects.

Jonathan currently serves as the Music Director and Organist of St. John’s Episcopal Church in Clifton Springs, NY. He often performs as a collaborative pianist for vocalists, instrumentalists, ensembles, and choirs. As a collaborator, Jonathan holds a graduate assistantship in accompanying at the Eastman School of Music and has received the Eastman Excellence in Accompanying Award. In addition to the piano and organ, this multi-talented musician has also performed as a percussionist, vocalist, historical keyboardist (harpsichord, fortepiano), and conductor.

Jonathan also values education as an important tool in music making. He has previously taught piano and music theory/ear training for various institutions and has conducted a series of master classes and concerts at the University of the Southern Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago. He has served as Instructor for Music Theory and Aural Musicianship at the Eastman School of Music and has taught piano for the Eastman Community Music School.

Jonathan is a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts in Piano Performance and Literature at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Douglas Humpherys, whom he served as studio assistant. He received his Bachelor of Music from La Sierra University and his Master of Music from The Juilliard School. Previous teachers include Elvin Rodríguez and Hung-Kuan Chen.