About Me
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Bruce Bonvissuto
I've had the good fortune of performing in virtually every area of the music scene - from Broadway to Birdland, Carnegie Hall to the White House, the NYC recording studios to Lincoln Center - with some of the greatest musicians on the planet and for the greatest stars in the universe. A few highlights: JJ Johnson's Brass Orchestra recording, The Firebird on Public TV with the Discovery Orchestra, Dave Brubeck‘s Big Band 85th Birthday Concert at Carnegie Hall, U.S. & international tours with the Metropolitan Brass Quartet, South Africa tour w/Shirley Bassey and the Carnegie Hall production of West Side Story with Marin Alsop. Performances with Tony Bennett, Natalie Cole, Ray Charles, John Pizzarelli, Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Bonnie Raitt, Weird Al, Betty Buckley, Celine Dion, The Temptations, Vic Damone, Liza Minelli, Steve & Eydie, Rosemarie Clooney, Perry Como, Julie Andrews, Ben Vereen, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis, Jr., Petula Clark, Maureen McGovern, Victor Borge, The Four Tops, Luther Vandross, Diana Ross, Johnny Mathis, Patti LuPone, Debbie Gravitte, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Paul Anka, Gladys Knight, Billy Eckstine, Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion (NPR, Town Hall), Cab Calloway and countless others. Concerts with Musica Sacrae, The Russ Kassoff Big Band, The American Theater Orchestra, Queens Symphony, Opera Orchestra of NY, Brooklyn Philharmonic, The American Symphony, NY Virtuosi. Broadway shows include Dreamgirls, Big River, Jerome Robbins' Broadway, Gypsy, Anything Goes , Chicago and thirty years of NY City Center ENCORES. Movie credits include The Post, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Morning After, In and Out, and The Bird Cage. TV appearances on The Today Show, Conan O'Brien, Guiding Light, NHK (Japan), PBS, and KBS (S. Korea). Premiers of works by Bruce Adolphe, Alan Hovhaness, Vivian Fine, Alfred Schnittke, William Schuman, Krysztof Penderecki, Robert Starer and others. A Juilliard graduate (BM, MM), I've served on the faculties of Brooklyn College, Hunter College, Charles Colin Studios and the Juilliard Prep Division.