Catch Up with Jonathan Bass

Pianist Jonathan Bass started racking up awards as far back as 1983, when he won Second Prize in the 1983 Young Keyboard Artists Competition. A graduate of the Juilliard School, he won First Prize at the Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition (precursor to PSIPC) the same year he joined the faculty at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and continues as Professor of Piano there.

But teaching is just one of the many gifts Bass gives to the classical music world. He’s performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra at Tanglewood, Carnegie Hall, and on two European tours. He’s also performed in China, Israel, and Japan, as well as giving hundreds of recitals in the United States. He’s a founding member of Walden Chamber Players, with whom he performed on a variety of chamber music series in the U.S. and Canada. The group recorded three acclaimed CDs, A Voice Gone Silent Too Soon: The Music of Gerhard Schedl, SunThreads, which explored the music of Augusta Read Thomas, and The Evolution of the American Sound, which featured music by Aaron Copland and Ned Rorem.

Bass’s own recordings include Jonathan Bass plays Bach, Chopin, Scriabin & Pinkham, which Gramophone Magazine praised for its “elegant, commanding playing.” Of his recording of Larry Bell’s Reminiscences and Reflections. Music Web wrote, “Jonathan Bass plays superbly throughout and proves an eminent and convincing advocate of Bell’s consistently fine and attractive music.”

We at the Palm Springs International Piano Competition celebrate the enduring and impressive career of Jonathan Bass!