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Pia Boda

Pia Boda is a Tenor/Soprano Saxophone player and Composer. Was born in Los Angeles, came to Denmark 6 years old and grew up and studied in Copenhagen. Pia´s biological family were not connected to music at all, but her stepfather, a professional piano player, “stepped into her life”, when she was 12 years old and introduced her to Brazilian music. The local music school introduced her to the woodwinds and the recorder became her very first instrument. She graduated as a Saxophone Player and Music Teacher from The Rhythmic Conservatory in Copenhagen in 1992, where she met the Italian guitar player Marco Spallanzani. Their collaboration led to the release of the CD "Gone for a Walk" in 1997, a lot of touring in Italy and Denmark and years after, their “One and Only” son, Emil. Pia has been working as a performer, teacher and composer since she graduated and is working with various genres in the improvisers field. Lately she has been working with her own quartet “Chasing Pixies” which is inspired by free music with a Nordic sound and a strong melodic sense. A new duo project was born November 2013, with the classical accordion player Marie Wärme. Pia has always been composing for her own groups. As a member of the composers group "Toneart", she periodically has the chance to write experimental music for different formations. She wrote for string quartet, woodwind quintet and wrote the music for the Theater Performance “Brothers and Sisters” by H. C. Branner. Her most recent work, “Impressions in the North” in the 3 parts, written for accordion and soprano saxophone, performed in Nov. 2013 in Fiuggi and Rome. Boda is also a dedicated music educator at The Rhythmic High School and at MGK, preparing talented students, striving for a future life as musicians.

Awards

The Danish Music Council supported the following activities: - 2013 Danish Arts commissioned the work “Impressions from the North” for Accordion and Soprano saxophone - 2010/1992 Travel and studies at Banff Center of Arts - 1995 Travel and studies in Brazil and USA - 1985 Studies at Dick Grove School of Music, Los Angeles, USA - DJBFA; Danish Jazz and Folk Authors – several scholarships and travel grants to Europe and New York. - DJBFA supported the release of the CD "Chasing Pixies", 2015 - DMF, Danish Musicians Union supported the release of the CD: “Gone for a Walk”, 1997.


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Pia Boda: Chasing Pixies

Read "Chasing Pixies" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The debut solo album of jny: Los Angeles-Born, Danish saxophonist and educator Pia Boda is an evocative attempt to relive old Viking stories about elves and fairies. The symbolic images about a living nature, the chase of the invisible elves and fairies who were supposed to hover in the air, and we can only sense “contours of creatures moving to somewhere," motivated Boda to create her own personal musical universe. Chasing Pixies, features Boda's jny: Copenhagen-based quartet which ...

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Review of Pia Boda’s CD “Chasing Pixies” in Jazznyt.com by Niels Overgaard.

….Tunes as Storyteller and Metamorphosis with their melodic elegance are floating to meet you. Hirabayashi’s lyrical piano playing with Boda’s sensitive saxophone playing is a pleasure. Pia Boda has written a row of fine compositions, which wants to do other than please. Mammot March draws with its heavy motion a clear picture of giants from the past, crossing the tundra. Pia Boda “chasing the pixies” is very successful.

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Chasing Pixies

Gateway Music
2016

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Chasing Pixies

Gatewaymusic
2015

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