Performances + Events
Jonathan Bass
Education and Training
BM and MM, The Juilliard School; DM, Indiana University School of Music; studies at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (1977-78); studies with Richard Fabre, Nelita True, John Perry, Lev Vlassenko, Adele Markus, Sascha Gorodnitzi, Herbert Stessin, Menahem Pressler.
Awards and Recognition
First Prize in the 1989 American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship Competition
First Prize in the 1983 National Arts Club Competition
First Prize in the 1984 American National Chopin Competition
Second Prize in the 1993 Washington International Competition
Second Prize in the 1983 Young Keyboard Artists Competition
Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the 1987 Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition
First Prize in the 1993 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition
Collaborative highlights include multiple guest appearances with the Boston Symphony Chamber Players, and recitals with many past and present members of the Boston Symphony, including violinist Joseph Silverstein and cellist Jules Eskin. He also partners with his wife, BSO violinist Tatiana Dimitriades, in the Boston Duo. For more than 20 years, as the pianist and a founding member of the Walden Chamber Players, he performed on a variety of chamber music series and residencies across the United States and Canada. Mr. Bass has also performed as orchestral keyboardist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in at Tanglewood, at Symphony Hall, at Carnegie Hall, and on two European Festival tours under conductors Roberto Abbado, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Bernard Haitink, and Seiji Ozawa. Other conductors he has worked with include Andris Nelsons, Charles Dutoit, Jacque Lacombe, Louis Lane, Keith Lockhart, Marcelo Lehninger, Ludovic Morlot, Ronald Knudsen, and Thomas Wilkins.
Jonathan Bass is a Professor of Piano at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where he has served on the faculty since 1993. He also teaches at New England Conservatory in the Preparatory School. His students have won many competition prizes, and he has given numerous master classes throughout the United States and around the world.
Assistant Professor San Jose State University (1990-1993); Assistant Professor and Interim Chair of Piano Department Boston University School of Music (2006-2008); Chair of Piano Department Boston Conservatory (2008-2015); faculty Boston Conservatory (1993-present); Professor of Piano Boston Conservatory at Berklee (2017- present).
Curriculum Vitae
BM and MM, The Juilliard School; DM, Indiana University School of Music; studies at Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow (1977-78); studies with Richard Fabre, Nelita True, John Perry, Lev Vlassenko, Adele Markus, Sascha Gorodnitzi, Herbert Stessin, Menahem Pressler.
- First Prize in the 1989 American Pianists Association Beethoven Fellowship Competition
- First Prize in the 1983 National Arts Club Competition
- First Prize in the 1984 American National Chopin Competition
- Second Prize in the 1993 Washington International Competition
- Second Prize in the 1983 Young Keyboard Artists Competition
- Bronze Medal and Mozart Prize at the 1987 Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition
- First Prize in the 1993 Joanna Hodges International Piano Competition
