Danilo Bonina
Violin

Danilo Bonina began his violin studies in Italy with Maestro Antero Arena. He earned his Diploma cum laude from the “Fausto Torrefranca” Conservatory in Vibo Valentia under the guidance of Maestro Renato Dona’. Mr. Bonina made his concert debut in 1996 at the Bastione Toledo in Crotone (Italy) as a solo violin in the Bach concerto for two violins. He was awarded first prize in the “Venetico”, “Pedara”, and “Pizzo Calabro” International Competitions. He has succefully performed in Italian television broadcasts. Mr. Bonita has attended numerous summer festivals held by Maestri George Monch, Alessandro Perpich, Marco Rogliano, Stefano Pagliani and Demetrio Comuzzi. He is intensely dedicated to orchestral and chamber music activities and also collaborates as a soloist with the “Solisti Calabri Orchestra”, the “Messina Chamber Orchestra”, and the “Magna Graecia Ensemble”. In 1999, Mr. Bonina was selected, after having won a scholarship, to play in the “Mediterranean Philharmonic Orchestra” conducted by Maestro Peter Maag. He was invited to perform in the Music Festival 2000 in the Fiesole International Academy.

Mr. Bonina received his Master of Music degree cum laude in violin performance from Mannes College of Music in New York where he studied violin under the guidance of Nina Beilina, and chamber music with Hiroko Yajima, Todd Phillips, Tom Stacy, Chin Kim and Peter Prosser. He has performed for Master Classes given by Jamie Laredo, Nina Beilina, Timothy Eddy, Joel Smirnoff, Steven Tenenbom and Todd Phillips. Mr. Bonina has performed in prestigious halls such as the Verizon Hall in Philadelphia, Merkin Hall and Alice Tully Hall (Lincoln Center, New York), the “Ukrainian Institute of America”, “The Center for Jewish History”, the Spanish Consulate “Queen Sofia Spanish Institute”, Kaye Playhouse and Carnegie Hall.

Mr. Bonina is very devoted to teaching. He has trained students of all ages, and coached different kinds of chamber groups both in Italy and the United States, where he integrates his profession in school with a private studio in New York and Washington (D.C.). He started his pedagogic activity in 1998. Since the very beginning he has been combining the two ingredients that form his teaching method: one is a meticulous instrumental and theoretical training, based on a particular attention to the technical aspects of the violin, and music theory. The other aims to bring the students’ latent ideas into clear consciousness in order to develop their musicality and stimulate the flowering of their personalities.

Mr. Bonina plays a violin by Carlo Oddone made in Torino in 1899.