Tara Buzash

Music Composer and Musician

Hopewell, New Jersey

Member Since:
September 2013

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About Tara

Since her stunning May performance at Washington, DC's Kennedy Center,
jazz pianist Tara Buzash has caught the attention of the global jazz
community. Praised by Toshiko Akiyoshi as "fantastic" and by Grammy-nominated composer Laurie Altman as "ingenious," Buzash is now focused
on intimate solo concerts and inventive composing. She was one of eight
young female jazz pianists from around the world chosen for the Kennedy
Center’s 2011 Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Workshop.
Buzash holds a Master of Music in Jazz Piano Performance from Rutgers
University, where she learned under Stanley Cowell and won the Pee Wee
Russell Jazz Scholarship. She has also studied with Kenny Barron, Charles
Tolliver, Conrad Herwig, Bill O'Connell, Ralph Peterson Jr., Connie Crothers,
and Laurie Altman. Buzash is a Watchfire Music Composer and the 2012
Grand Prize Winner of the New Jersey Arts Collective’s music composition
contest, as well as a Greater Princeton Steinway Society board member.

Gender:
Female

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Grand Prize ~ New Jersey Arts Collective Student Composition Contest
(2012)
Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Workshop (one of eight international competition winners)
(2011)
Pee Wee Russell Jazz Scholarship
(2010)