Join us in-person for our March concert of the Tenth Season of Second Sunday Recitals. Our featured artist is MARY JO PAGANO, pianist, joined by her children in a Piano Trio concert.
Suggested donation of $10 to support the Basilica Music Ministries.
The concert will also be livestreamed on Facebook.
Chamber Music Center Founder, Artistic Director, and pianist MARY JO PAGANO is a passionate advocate of the power of chamber music in every musician’s life. As former Director of the Barbara E. Field Chamber Music Program at Third Street Music School Settlement, she has guided hundreds of young musicians through the joyful experience of playing music with others. Many of those students have gone on to have professional careers in chamber music as members of groups such as the Pacifica Quartet, the Flux Quartet, the Horszkowski Trio and the Providence Quartet.
An active chamber musician herself, Dr. Pagano has been a member of the Esterhazy Trio, Polaris Ensemble and LES chamber ensemble. She has performed with Serio Divertimenti and she toured the U.S. with the Royale Trio, under the auspices of Columbia Management. Mary Jo performs chamber music with many of the fantastic musicians living in New York City.
Dr. Pagano can be seen as a performer of chamber music with members of the Ying Quartet on the Educational Series “Exploring a World of Music.” This twelve-part series also features her as the spokesperson for Western Classical music. This series is shown in college classrooms and PBS stations throughout the United States.
Dr. Pagano received her Doctorate of Musical Arts at Manhattan School of Music as a scholarship student of Leon Fleisher. She earned her Master of Music degree from the Manhattan School of Music as a student of Constance Keene. She received a Bachelor of Music degree from Arizona State University, where she studied with James Ruccolo and Eugene Pridonoff. She has performed in master classes for such great artists as John Browning, Menachem Pressler, and Andre Watts.
She has served on the faculty of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Third Street Music School Settlement, Harbor Conservatory, Kinhaven Music School, Summer Trios, Columbia High School Program, Sonatina School and The New York Youth Symphony Chamber Music Program. She has given masterclasses at California State University at Long Beach, University of Southern California, Bloomingdale School of Music, Third Street Music School Settlement, Steinway Hall and Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.