Pia Bose
Lecturer
Altgeld 206
618-453-5819
A two-time recipient of the Florida Department of State Artist Enhancement Grant, sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Division, Florida Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts, American pianist Pia Bose has given solo, concerto, and chamber music performances in the United States, Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland. She has performed at venues including the Palais de l’Athénéé (Geneva), Edinburgh Society of Musicians, Scotland, Mozarteum TheaterSaal (Salzburg), Sala Manuel de Falla, (Málaga), Teatro Jovellanos (Gijón), Iglesia San Felix (Candás), Steinway Hall (Orlando), and in Baltimore, Tampa, Tallahassee, and the San Francisco Bay Area. She has appeared with orchestras in the U.S. and in Europe, including performances with the Oberlin Chamber Players, Spain’s Millennium Orchestra, and the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra with conductors John Goodell, Oliver Díaz Suárez, and Harvey Benstein. Upcoming engagements include recitals in Paris and Geneva, and two appearances with the Orchestre de l’Acade´mie Tibor Varga under the direction of Thuring Bram in Switzerland.
Ms. Bose has performed during music festivals and series such as the Millennium International Piano Festival (Spain), “Los Lunes Musicales” series at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga (Spain), Geneva’s Fête de la Musique, the Espace Interculturel series at Sierre’s Hôtel de Ville (Switzerland), and the festival Harmoniques“Rencontres Internationales de Lausanne”, where she studied with pianist Paul Badura-Skoda in masterclasses dedicated to the works of Haydn and Mozart on both original instruments and the modern piano.
Ms. Bose is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including a United Arts Professional Development Grant (2007), two Peabody Career Development Grants (2006, 2002), two Florida Artist Enhancement Grants (2006, 2005), the Ada Bronstein Scholarship (Banff Centre for the Arts, 2005), the Winter Park Musicale Scholarship (1993), and the First United Methodist Church Award (1993). In addition, she received honors in the Millennium Festival International Competition (Winner) and the Bradshaw and Buono International Competition (Honorable Mention). Early awards include being a finalist in the Young Keyboard Artists’ Association International Competition, and First Prizes in the Beethoven Society Young Pianists Competition, CFMTA Piano Competition, FSMTA Concerto Competition, and FFMC Competition.
Ms. Bose received the Bachelor of Music degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Master of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and her former teachers include Joseph Schwartz, J.Y. Song, Marian Hahn, Ernest Barretta, Gary Wolf, and Ruth Snowman. She has spent summers studying with Boris Bloch at the Universität Mozarteum Sommerakademie (2002) in Austria, and on a full-scholarship with Julian Martin at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada (2005). In addition, she has participated in masterclasses and coachings with distinguished artists such as Robert McDonald, Boris Slutsky, Bruno Canino, Blanca Uribe, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Marc Durand, Jonathan Feldman, and Paul Coker. In conjunction with her musical studies, Ms. Bose completed undergraduate studies at Oberlin College, where she also received a Bachelor of Arts degree in biopsychology.
Pia Bose is currently completing the Diplôme de Soliste at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga (Sion, Switzerland), where she continues to work with Dominique Weber. Ms. Bose has served as Assistant Coordinator and Chamber Music Faculty at the Escuela Internacional de Música de Lucena summer festival in Córdoba, Spain and as
Substitute Faculty at the Institut Jaques-Dalcroze and the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique in Geneva. She currently serves as Lecturer in Applied Piano at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
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- MUS 040Q-540Q: Applied Piano