Sarah Bob
piano
Hailed as "sumptuous and eloquent" by the Boston Globe, pianist Sarah Bob is an active soloist and chamber musician noted for her charismatic performances, colorful playing and diverse programming. A strong advocate for new music and considered a "trailblazer when it comes to championing the works of modern composers and combining art media in the process..." (Northeast Performer), she is also the founding director of the New Gallery Concert Series, a series devoted to commissioning and uniting new music and contemporary visual art with their creators. She is an original member of many ensembles including her piano/percussion group, Primary Duo, the 20th and 21st century focused Firebird Ensemble, and Radius Ensemble, a fresh and creative chamber music collective that presents both the traditional and cutting edge. Recognized as a risk taker and cited for an "ideal combination of all-stops-out abandon and sure-footed technical control" by 21st Century Music, she is a grant recipient of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music and top prizewinner of the International Gaudeamus Competition 2001. She is also the recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation's 2005 Grant-in-Aid Award, an honor that recognizes the quality of her work and artistic merit, received the first annual John Kleshinski Award in honor of her daring, exciting and high quality New Gallery Concert Series presentations as well as the Outstanding Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory of Music. Thanks to the Trust for Mutual Understanding, this October 2010, Sarah traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria to perform music by living American composers and then continued to do the same in Berlin, Germany. Sarah presently resides in Boston with her family and can be heard playing the music of Lee Hyla on the Tzadik label, Curtis K. Hughes on Cauchemar Records solo piano by Lior Navok on NLM Records, solo and chamber music by Elena Ruehr on Albany Records, solo music by Lisa Bielawa on the BMOP/sound label, collaborations with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project on New World and Oxingale Records and more recording projects underway.
For more information, please go to www.sarahbob.net. Performances
Recordings
Roam | Double Violin Concerto | unfinish'd, sent | Synopses #1-15
BMOP/sound 1017
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News and Press
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Lisa Bielawa's double CD release concert is characteristically captivating
Lucid Culture
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Lisa Bielawa: In medias res
Roam | Double Violin Concerto | unfinish'd, sent | Synopses #1-15
Bielawa and an inspired cast of indie classical types played a stunningly eclectic mix of new material from her two latest albums, Chance Encounter and In Medias Res.
