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Sarah Bob
Artistic Director,
President
www.sarahbob.net
Considered a “trailblazer when it comes to championing the works of modern composers and combining art media in the process…” (Northeast Performer), pianist Sarah Bob is the founding director of the New Gallery Concert Series. She is devoted to commissioning and uniting all types of new music and contemporary visual art with their creators, thus making the New Gallery Concert Series eclectic, thought provoking and fun.
Hailed as “sumptuous and eloquent” by the Boston Globe, Sarah is also an active soloist and chamber musician. She has performed in venues ranging from New York City’s Carnegie Hall to De Doelen in Holland’s Rotterdam and is an original member of the piano/percussion group, Primary Duo, the 20th and 21st century focused Firebird Ensemble, and Radius Ensemble, a fresh chamber music collective. She is a grant recipient of the Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music, top prizewinner of the International Gaudeamus Competition 2001 and the recipient of the St. Botolph Club Foundation’s 2005 Grant-in-Aid Award. Sarah received the first annual John Kleshinski Award for her work and devotion to the New Gallery Concert Series, the Outstanding Alumni Award from the New England Conservatory and a grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding to travel to Bulgaria to perform contemporary American music. All are honors of great depth that continue to bring her immense pride.
Sarah earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in piano performance from the University of Michigan and the New England Conservatory respectively. A native of Teaneck, N.J., Sarah now resides in Boston with her family and is on faculty at the Community Music Center of Boston and the College of the Holy Cross.