Biography
Sarah Bob has established herself as a pianist of consequence through her roles as performer, organizer, and educator within avant-garde circles across the northeastern United States. Appearances and recordings with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project have regularly placed her before audiences.
She entered the world in Teaneck, New Jersey, a locale she observes on her website also served as the fictional residence of the Sesame Street character Bob. Marilyn Arons guided her studies in that town. After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan, Bob completed a master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, where contact with numerous figures in Boston's experimental music community proved formative. The Conservatory's Outstanding Alumnus Award and first prize in the 2001 International Gaudeamus Competition in the Netherlands followed, as did solo engagements at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston together with Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York.
Advocacy for new music has led Bob to collaborate not only with BMOP but also with Dinosaur Annex, the Callithumpian Consort, and the Microtonal Society. Administrative work has included the post of Director of Classical Music at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Georgia, while she founded The Nasty Cooperative, which she characterizes as "numerous dialogue-driven artistic events created to build community, and help raise funds for organizations in need." Chamber affiliations encompass the Primary Duo, formed with her percussionist husband Aaron Trant. A recurring course titled "The Power of Art" has been offered by Bob at the Longy School of Music at Bard College in upstate New York, and she held the title of Artist-in-Residence at The Music Mansion in Rhode Island during 2019.
In addition to ensemble appearances, Bob appears on two Avie releases: the 2015 album Lift, given over to the music of composer Elena Ruehr, and Nobody Move from 2019, which incorporated commissions first presented in her New Gallery Concert Series events.
She entered the world in Teaneck, New Jersey, a locale she observes on her website also served as the fictional residence of the Sesame Street character Bob. Marilyn Arons guided her studies in that town. After graduating with honors from the University of Michigan, Bob completed a master's degree at the New England Conservatory of Music, where contact with numerous figures in Boston's experimental music community proved formative. The Conservatory's Outstanding Alumnus Award and first prize in the 2001 International Gaudeamus Competition in the Netherlands followed, as did solo engagements at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum in Boston together with Carnegie Hall and Alice Tully Hall in New York.
Advocacy for new music has led Bob to collaborate not only with BMOP but also with Dinosaur Annex, the Callithumpian Consort, and the Microtonal Society. Administrative work has included the post of Director of Classical Music at the Stone Mountain Arts Center in Georgia, while she founded The Nasty Cooperative, which she characterizes as "numerous dialogue-driven artistic events created to build community, and help raise funds for organizations in need." Chamber affiliations encompass the Primary Duo, formed with her percussionist husband Aaron Trant. A recurring course titled "The Power of Art" has been offered by Bob at the Longy School of Music at Bard College in upstate New York, and she held the title of Artist-in-Residence at The Music Mansion in Rhode Island during 2019.
In addition to ensemble appearances, Bob appears on two Avie releases: the 2015 album Lift, given over to the music of composer Elena Ruehr, and Nobody Move from 2019, which incorporated commissions first presented in her New Gallery Concert Series events.
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