Altamura Legacy Concerts is a new concert series developed in 2023 by pianist and artistic director Cristina Altamura, featuring her and a roster of guest artists performing on a newly restored 1924 Steinway B Grand Piano at Princeton United Methodist Church, home of the majestic Tiffany stained-glass window that graces its façade.
Guest artists range from some of the most illustrious international piano masters, to New York's current avant-garde, to Princeton's own community of distinguished pianists. Altamura is joined by her husband, Sō Percussion's Adam Sliwinski, for an informal talk at the beginning of each program.
A portion of proceeds from tickets supports Legacy Arts International's music education programs such as the All-Abilities Music Creation Project, which commissions new pieces of music for students whose educational needs are not being met by the current repertiore and pedagogy for their instrument, due to factors which could include a disability, lack of representation in the field, or other unmet needs. Students are then presented alongside LAI's Youth Ambassadors of Excellence in pre-concerts to open for headlining guest artists of the concert series.
