Tara Buzash, Solo Jazz Piano at Jacobs Music Recital Hall

The Greater Princeton Steinway Society will present the final jazz concert of its 2013-14 season when Hopewell jazz pianist Tara Buzash performs on Sunday, February 2. The concert will take place in the Recital Hall of Jacobs Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike (Route 1), Lawrenceville, at 3 p.m.

A social hour with refreshments and conversation with Ms. Buzash will follow the program.

Ms. Buzash caught the attention of the global jazz community following her stunning performance at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center in May, 2011, when she was one of eight young jazz pianists from around the world chosen for the Center's annual Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Workshop. She was honored on that occasion with one of the event’s prestigious Mary Lou Williams Awards. ...

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The Greater Princeton Steinway Society will present the final jazz concert of its 2013-14 season when Hopewell jazz pianist Tara Buzash performs on Sunday, February 2. The concert will take place in the Recital Hall of Jacobs Music, 2540 Brunswick Pike (Route 1), Lawrenceville, at 3 p.m.

A social hour with refreshments and conversation with Ms. Buzash will follow the program.

Ms. Buzash caught the attention of the global jazz community following her stunning performance at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center in May, 2011, when she was one of eight young jazz pianists from around the world chosen for the Center's annual Women in Jazz Emerging Artist Workshop. She was honored on that occasion with one of the event’s prestigious Mary Lou Williams Awards.

Praised by Toshiko Akiyoshi as “fantastic” and by Grammy-nominated composer Laurie Altman as “ingenious,” Ms. Buzash is now focused on intimate solo concerts and inventive composing. She holds a Master of Music in Jazz Piano Performance degree from Rutgers University, where she studied under Stanley Cowell and won the Pee Wee Russell Jazz Scholarship. A Watchfire Music composer, she was also the Grand Prize winner of the 2012 New Jersey Arts Collective's music composition contest. Her Steinway Society program will be an eclectic mix of jazz standards, arrangements of contemporary songs, spontaneous improvisation, and her original compositions.

Admission: $18/$10. Proceeds will support the Steinway Society's new Jazz Piano Scholarship Competition.

For more information, please visit the Steinway Society website at www.steinwaysocietyprinceton.org . For music samples and to learn more about Tara Buzash, please visit www.buzash.net .

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