Carl Patrick Bolleia
With performances and recordings acclaimed and featured by The New York Times, The New Yorker, Gramophone, New York Classical Review, Fanfare, American Record Guide and more, Carl Patrick Bolleia has performed as pianist, historical keyboardist and conductor throughout North America, Europe and China at leading venues including Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium and Weill Recital Hall, Alice Tully Hall, Philharmonie de Paris, Merkin Hall, NJPAC, Bargemusic, le poisson rouge, Spectrum and La Plantation Concert Hall in Beijing.
Research and academic pursuits have been accepted for international, national, and regional presentations, including the College Music Society National Conference in Vancouver, Northwestern University New Music Conference, the Intersections of Classical and Jazz Piano Conference at the University of West Virginia, and more. Dr. Bolleia is Assistant Professor of Music and Coordinator of Piano at William Paterson University and has served on the faculty of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Holding the Doctor of Musical Arts from Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts in piano performance, he wrote his dissertation,“Taxonomy of Musical Gesture and a Hermeneutic of Narrative and Diatonic Continuity in the Piano Music of Charles Wuorinen”. He received the The Elizabeth Wyckoff Durham Award for Excellence in Piano/Organ, the Arthur G. Humphrey Memorial Prize in Collaborative Piano, and The Edna Mason Scholarship.
He cites his tutelage under a variety of pianists and keyboardists to be most profoundly influential, including Ursula Oppens, Alan Feinberg, Peter Sykes, Richard Egarr, Béatrice Martin, Avi Stein, Min Kwon, and Gary Kirkpatrick, as well as masterclasses and coachings with Jerome Lowenthal, Fred Hersch, Warren Jones, William Christie, Paul Agnew, Nicolas Hodges, Rachel Podger, Robert Mealy, Skip Sempé, Vince Carr, Renée Anne Louprette, and Billy Taylor.
After having served as music director at various parishes in the Archdiocese of Newark for fifteen years, he became the Director of Music at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Boonton, NJ in 2016.
Additional pursuits include the study of organ at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart, sacred music at The Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University, Gregorian Chant at the Wethersfield Institute and St. Cecelia Academy and conferences in Music Theory Pedagogy. He is currently a candidate for the Graduate Diploma (post-doctoral) in Historical Performance at The Juilliard School.
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