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Originally presented in June 2007 on the series Concerts of Impermanence at the The Rubin Museum of Art in New York, pianist ANTHONY DE MARE has created an eclectic program of works chosen in response to the current exhibition, The Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, traveling to museums around the globe over the next several years. Having generated enthusiastic responses at its premiere, MISSING PEACE offers a compelling series of musical tableaux including works that best reflect the Dalai Lama’s aesthetics of compassion, impermanence, peace and unity of all things. The program features the performer’s signature style of multi-disciplinary performance and includes a selection of corresponding visual works from the exhibition, carefully chosen by Mr. de Mare, for projection during the concert. The program includes works by James Mobberly, Laurie Anderson, Meredith Monk, Anthony Davis and J.S. Bach and Debussy. In 2009, he will also be the featured pianist with the Lark Quartet at Merkin Hall premiering a new work by David Rakowski. Also in the coming season, Mr. de Mare will record once again the KOCH Entertainment label—Pianos and Voices II: The Speaking Pianist. Scheduled for release in 2009, will be the first disc devoted completely to the speaking/singing pianist genre he created 20 years ago. It will feature works by Frederic Rzewski, Jerome Kitzke, Meredith Monk, Laurie Anderson, Derek Bermel and Rodney Sharman. Currently on the roster of Yamaha Artists, Mr. de Mare has nearly twenty recordings in his discography. Of his Koch release, Out of My Hands, short listed for a 2005 Grammy Award, American Record Guide raved that “his exquisite touch and impassioned beauty of utterance imbue this program of vignettes by David del Tredici and Aaron Jay Kernis with artistry of the highest order.”