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Dear Friends,

The Alexander & Buono Foundation is pleased to announce Piano Day for 2025, described as “an annual worldwide event founded by a group of like-minded people, taking place on the 88th day of the year, March 29, 2025, because of the number of keys on the instrument being celebrated. Established in 2015, it is now well known across the globe. Every year it provokes special concerts, onstage and online, as well as radio shows, podcasts, and playlists.” 

On Sunday, March 30, we will be featuring our own celebration in collaboration with The Church, Sag Harbor, New York’s legendary arts center.

The Shelest Piano Duo, who last month released the third CD in their series based on the works of women composers entitled Donna Voce III, and which includes works by Clara Schumann and Cécile Chaminade with Neeme Järvi conducting the Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, will present a program of four hand music.

All of us at ABF are pleased and honored to be supporting their career efforts, even as we are also happy to add them to Piano Day as our own contribution to this most wonderful of instruments.  

For those of you in the New York area, we hope you will join us in this celebration of great music, even as we hope you will continue to generously support our work on behalf of the Shelest Piano Duo and other artists ABF continues to help build and sustain their careers.

With kindest regards,

Barry Alexander and Cosmo Buono
Chairmen alexanderbuono.org

Your donations at work

It is no secret that the pandemic proved particularly difficult for non-profits, and it is only now that matters are returning to what we like to call the new normal.  Still, all of us at the Alexander & Buono Foundation consider ourselves fortunate to have maintained donors who have been responsible for our being able to return to Carnegie Hall this year for the Winners’ Recital of our Piano and String Competitions, in addition to the Sixteenth Annual ABC Gala Concert.

Thanks to you, we were able to offer a block of complimentary tickets to students of Sacred Heart Academy in the Bronx so that they could attend the Winners’ Recital of our Piano and String Competitions at Carnegie Hall. 

Thanks to you, we were able to underwrite the East Coast tour of the United States for Rupert Egerton-Smith, whom critics hailed as “a pianist and musician of the highest caliber. 

Thanks to you, we were able to provide Nana Miyoshi with New York concerts and recording sessions that gave her opportunities to hone her craft. We are also sponsoring her Carnegie Hall solo recital debut in 2026.

 

Thanks to you, we are able to give flutist Silvia Schiaffino her Carnegie Hall debut as part of this year’s ABC Gala Concert, as well as a concert at the Columbus Citizens Foundation.

We are extremely grateful for your ongoing support, and ask that you continue to donate as part of our efforts to help artists launch and sustain their careers.  We will also be continuing our support of artists with concerts and scholarships, while actively seeking out engagements for them with orchestras and performing arts organizations throughout the world. 

As is always the case, our efforts rely on your generous donations, and we could not do this without you. We hope that you will not only continue to support our work, but also share news of our accomplishments with your friends and colleagues in an effort to grow support.

Thank you. We are nothing if not grateful.

"Since winning the Bradshaw & Buono International Piano Competition, I have had many opportunities to build my career. I study every week with Mr. Cosmo Buono and Mr. Barry Alexander continues to help me find wonderful performance opportunities."

Nana Miyoshi,
Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition Laureate

Rupert Egerton-Smith and Queen Camilla at his performance for Her Majesty in Salisbury Cathedral.

"Working with Cosmo Buono, Barry Alexander, and Alexander & Buono International, I can honestly say I have made strides personally, artistically, and professionally that otherwise would not have been possible."

Rupert Egerton-Smith
Artist in Residence, Orchestra of St. Johns

"Thanks to my B&B win, I have gotten to a completely new level of understanding about the classical music market. I have been given dozens of valuable ideas, important professional feedback for my own ideas, artist representation at the highest level, and overall support that has helped me tremendously."

Maria Narodytska,
Bradshaw & Buono Piano Competition Laureate