Pia Bose, Piano

Biography

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, France, and Switzerland. She has performed at venues including The American Church (Paris), Palais de l’Athénéé (Geneva), Edinburgh Society of Musicians (Scotland), Mozarteum TheaterSaal (Salzburg), Teatro Jovellanos (Gijón), 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 Orchestre Tibor Varga.

Ms. Bose has performed for music festivals and series such as the Gijón International Piano Festival (Spain), Los Lunes Musicales series at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga (Spain), Geneva’s Fête de la Musique, and the Espace Interculturel series at the Town Hall of Sierre, Switzerland.

Ms. Bose is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including a United Arts Professional Development Grant, two Peabody Career Development Grants, two Florida Artist Enhancement Grants, Banff Centre for the Arts Full Scholarship, and the Winter Park Musicale Scholarship. She was a winner in the Gijón International Piano Festival Competition and received an Honorable Mention in the 2005 Bradshaw and Buono International Competition.

Ms. Bose obtained her Diplôme de Soliste at the Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion, Switzerland in 2007. She completed the Master of Music degree at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, and the Bachelor of Music degree at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. 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 has served as Assistant Coordinator and Chamber Music Faculty at the Escuela Internacional de Música Presjovem de Lucena in Spain, as adjunct Piano Faculty at the Institut Jaques Dalcroze and the Conservatoire Populaire de Musique in Geneva, Switzerland, and on the Applied Piano faculty at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and the University of Texas at El Paso. She is currently pursuing doctoral studies as a student of Dr. Andrew Cooperstock at the University of Colorado at Boulder.