Tony cara mia biography

Tony Caramia is Professor of Piano at the Eastman School of Music, where he is Director of Piano Pedagogy Studies and Coordinator of the Class Piano Program.

In May 2003, he was a guest on Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz on NPR. In May 2004, he served as a judge, along with Kenny Barron and Hilton Ruiz, at the 6th American Jazz Piano Competition for the American Pianists Association, and as adjudicator in the Crescendo Music Awards from 2005-2008.

In September of 2007, he was privileged to participate in the dedication concert on the new "Sorel" Steinway at SUNY Fredonia, in honor of his former teacher, Miss Claudette Sorel.

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Mr. Caramia is featured in the Yamaha Clavinova on Campus series. He has contributed articles for Clavier Companion magazine and the web site The Piano Pedagogy Forum. His latest solo piano compositions -- Suite Dreams and Jazz Moods -- have been published by the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation, for whom he is also a keyboard clinician.