Sarah Bob

Office: Brooks 244
Phone: 617.254.4133
E-mail: sarah@sarahbob.net

Hailed as "sumptuous and eloquent" by the Boston Globe, pianist Sarah Bob is an active soloist and chamber musician noted for her colorful playing and diverse programming. A strong advocate for new music, she is also the founding director of the New Gallery Concert Series (http://www.newgalleryconcertseries.org), a series devoted to commissioning and uniting new music and contemporary visual art with their creators. Her special attention to music of today includes premieres by both established and emerging composers such as Gunther Schuller and Lior Navok, and performances ranging in venues from New York City's Carnegie Hall and Symphony Space, Holland's De Doelen in Rotterdam to Boston's own Jordan Hall. 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, top prizewinner of the International Gaudeamus Competition 2001 and the winner of the St. Botolph Club Foundation's 2005 Grant in Aid Award which recognizes the quality of her work and artistic merit. Sarah is an original member of the Firebird Ensemble, a contemporary music chamber group cited for being "ambitious and eclectic" by the New York Times, and is currently setting her touring schedule as a member of the piano/percussion group, Primary Duo. Not only a pianist of modern music, Sarah has been featured as soloist with the Boston Musica Viva, has given live performances on Boston's WGBH and Jordan Hall, the Rockport Chamber Music Festival and continues to be the pianist of Radius Ensemble, a fresh and creative chamber music group that focuses on the traditional and cutting edge. Sarah now resides in Boston and can be heard playing the music of Lee Hyla on the Tzadik label, Curtis K. Hughes on Cauchemar Records and collaborations with BMOP on New World and Oxingale Records. For more information, please go to http:www.sarahbob.net.