A.busy weekend at the Southampton Cultural Center will kick off Saturday at 6 p.m. with a performance by Jonathan Mamora, part of its Liliane Questel Recital Series. The program features music by Bach, Scriabin, Liszt, Chopin, and Rachmaninoff.
An Indonesian-American and Southern California native, Mamora has won first prizes at many international piano competitions, including at Hilton Head, S.C.; Glasgow; Barcelona, Spain; Antwerp, Belgium; Dallas, and Palm Springs, Calif. In May 2025 he was one of 30 pianists invited to compete in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas.
Of his May 2023 debut at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall, New York Concert Review said, “Mamora’s playing itself is larger than life,” with “a technique so solid that it seemed at times that he couldn’t play a wrong note if he tried” and “an encyclopedic array of dynamics and articulations.”
Mamora, who made his concerto debut at age 13 with the La Sierra University Orchestra in Riverside, Calif., has since performed with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica de Madrid, the New Mexico Philharmonic, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Santa Barbara Symphony, the Hilton Head Symphony Orchestra, the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, and the American Festival Pops Orchestra.
Tickets are $30, free for students under 21.
Jazz Sing-Along
For those who would rather perform than watch, the cultural center will host the next jam session of East End Jazz on Sunday at 2 p.m. Titled “Sing-Along the American Songbook,” the free, fully interactive program will feature Vanessa Trouble on vocals, Bill Smith on piano, Iris Ornig on bass, and Troy Grindle on drums.
Attendees have been invited to bring their instruments and voices. Those who have a specific song they would like to perform can email it to [email protected] with their preferred key signature and, if possible, a lead sheet for the band.
“Ghost Lake”
Ginew Benton (Ojibwe), an Indigenous writer and director, will bring his new film, “Ghost Lake,” to the cultural center on Sunday afternoon at 4. The 20-minute film, recently selected for the upcoming Santa Fe International Film Festival’s Indigenous Shorts program, follows a reclusive Native American hunter who stumbles on a group of smugglers trafficking fentanyl through tribal land.
Born in Canada, Benton and his mother moved to the Shinnecock Reservation when he was 8. He attended Southampton High School and Stony Brook University, graduating in 2002 with honors in theater and high honors in visual art. His other films include “Looking Glass” (2020), “Mirror Man” (2022), and “The Dim” (2023).
Tickets, at $25, help support the film festival’s travel and community outreach.
