MaryAnn Bonino

The host of "Sunday Music," MaryAnn Bonino has brought classical music to life for audiences of all ages as the producer of innovative concert experiences, as a public speaker, and as a radio and TV host and producer.  A University of Southern California graduate in musicology, she is currently College Professor-at-large Emeritus at Mount St. Mary's College and Curator of the Doheny Mansion.  In January 2009, she returned to Classical KUSC, where she produced and announced several series of weekly programs from 1979-89.

As the Founding Artistic Director of the Da Camera Society, Bonino developed the creative format for a new type of concert experience. Internationally-recognized for its excellence and creativity, the award-winning Chamber Music in Historic Sites series has been praised for giving music "the sense of discovery and fun it so richly deserves."  From Los Angeles to San Diego, Riverside to Saugus, and Mount Wilson to Catalina Island, the series has  presented concerts in places ranging from train stations, merry-go-rounds and planetariums to car dealerships, churches and temples, museums, ballrooms and mansions.

A popular speaker on music and the arts, she was selected by the Los Angeles Philharmonic in 1989 to inaugurate its Upbeat Live! series of pre-concert lectures, continuing as a speaker for many years.  A former Fulbright Fellow and Woodrow Wilson Fellow, her doctoral dissertation on 17th-century composer Severo Bonini was published in 1979 and is now available, in part, on the web. In 2008, she published The Doheny Mansion: A Biography of a Home.