Pianist Daniel Colalillo To Premiere Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Sonata No. 4 At Weill Recital Hall At Carnegie Hall, April 27th 7:30 PM 2026

“Sonatas Through the Ages” A Journey of 300 Years of Sonata Evolution

Pianist Daniel Colalillo will give a solo recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (154 W 57th St, New York, NY 10019) on Monday, April 27th 7:30pm, 2026. Presented by Classical Keys, "Sonatas Through the Ages" explores how the piano sonata has transformed across centuries. The program includes works by Scarlatti, Beethoven, Liszt, and Scriabin, and culminates in the World Premiere of Lowell Liebermann’s Piano Sonata No. 4.

General admission of $25 - $45 is available for purchase through CarnegieCharge and at the Carnegie Hall Box Office, 57th & 7th Avenue, 212 247-7800. $10 Student tickets are available only at Carnegie Hall's Box Office with a valid ID.

With a rare combination of passion and precision, New York City-based pianist Daniel Colalillo is praised for his musical integrity and thoughtful interpretations. Guided by a deep respect for the composer's intention, he has cultivated a devoted following among classical music audiences. He has given commanding solo performances at prestigious venues across the country, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, Symphony Space, Steinway Hall, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, and Columbia University.

Mr. Colalillo’s path to the piano was unconventional. Born and raised in New Jersey, he abandoned piano lessons at an early age. He turned to drums at age 11 and started a rock band and played in his high school Drumline. Through the strong musical influence of his brother Chris, Daniel gradually became drawn to the works of Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin. At 15 he returned to the piano, largely self-taught at first, before resuming formal classical studies with Gustav Ferri and Yuka Yanagi, focusing on building and memorizing a wide-ranging repertoire. He continued his studies at the Conservatory of Music at Purchase College, studying with Paul Ostrovsky, and went on to earn a master’s degree in Piano Performance at Mannes School of Music, The New School, where he studied with Thomas Sauer and Eteri Andjaparidze. While at Mannes, he was selected to perform with the MACE Ensemble under the direction of the renowned composer Lowell Liebermann. 

As Founder and Artistic Director of Classical Keys, a chamber music and solo piano series now in its sixth season, Mr. Colalillo curates imaginative programs that combine masterworks, contemporary music, and works by underrepresented composers. He presents concerts at venues throughout New Jersey and at Klavierhaus in New York City. As a chamber musician, he has collaborated with Avery Fisher Career Grant recipients as well as members of the New York Philharmonic and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. His performances have taken him throughout North America, including to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Nashville, Toronto, and Montreal.

A dedicated advocate for contemporary music, Mr. Colalillo has premiered numerous works for solo piano and chamber ensembles. During the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020, he commissioned five composers to collaborate in the innovative “Pandemic Piano Preludes” project, which paired newly written works with classical preludes, creating a dialogue between past and present. Daniel’s debut album, “Mostly Scriabin,” was warmly received for its sensitivity and insight into the composer’s distinctive musical language. 

In addition to solo and chamber performances, the 2025/2026 season has included two concerto performances: Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3, Op. 37 with the Palisades Sinfonietta at New York City and Beethoven’s Concerto No. 4, Op. 58 with the Baroque Orchestra in the Morris Museum in New Jersey.

Mr. Colalillo is a passionate educator and advocate for classical music; he has presented masterclasses at Belmont University and New York University and has lectured for the Scriabin Society of America. He serves on the Council Board of Groupmuse, an organization dedicated to promoting house concerts throughout the United States and abroad. Daniel is on the piano faculty at Concordia Conservatory in Bronxville, New York and maintains a private teaching studio in Manhattan. He has been awarded “Top Piano Teacher” from Steinway & Sons.

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At once unabashedly romantic and modern, American composer Lowell Liebermann is internationally recognized as an artist of uncommon profundity and popularity. Time Magazine proclaimed: “Now brazen and glittering, now radiantly visionary…the work of a composer unafraid of grand gestures and openhearted lyricism.”

Mr. Liebermann has written more than one hundred forty works in all genres, several of which have gone on to become standard repertoire for their instruments. He has composed four symphonies, a Concerto for Orchestra, three piano concertos, and concertos for many other instruments. His works have been premiered by major orchestras, including the Dallas Symphony, the National Symphony, and the New York Philharmonic. His Sonata for Flute and Piano and Gargoyles for piano are among the most popular contemporary works for their instruments, regularly included in recital and competition programs. His full-length ballet Frankenstein, co-commissioned by London’s Royal Ballet and the San Francisco Ballet, has been released on Blu-Ray and DVD. Mr. Liebermann has written two full-length operas, both enthusiastically received at their premieres: The Picture of Dorian Gray, the first American opera commissioned by and premiered in 1995 by l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, and Miss Lonelyhearts, after the novel by Nathanael West, for the Juilliard School’s 100th anniversary in 2005.

A prolific pianist both live and in recording, Mr. Liebermann has given the world premieres of his own solo piano works as well as works by his fellow composers Ned Rorem and William Bolcolm. In 2021, the Steinway label released a CD of works by Schubert, Liszt, Kabelác, Busoni, and his own composition. A year later, Steinway sponsored a second solo piano album by Mr. Liebermann, The Devil’s Lyre, featuring music of contemporary British composer David Hackbridge Johnson. An album of the German Romantic composer Theodor Kirchner was released to great acclaim last season.

Mr. Liebermann has over one hundred fifty recordings to his credit, released on Deutsche Grammophon, Hyperion, Virgin Classics, Hungaroton, New World Records, Albany, RCA Red Seal, Reference, and many others. His works are published by Theodore Presser Company, Schott, and Faber Music. He has been invited to serve as Composer-in-Residence for numerous distinguished organizations, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra; the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan; the Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Mr. Liebermann has been a faculty member of the Composition Department of the Mannes School of Music of the New School since 2012.  He was the founding conductor of the Mannes American Composers Ensemble, devoted to performing works of living American composers.

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