One of the most original jazz pianists and composers emerging from his native Colombia in the past twenty years, Boris Acosta holds a Bachelors Of Music Degree from Berklee College of Music, and a Masters in Arts Degree from Queens College, City University of New York. While Mr. Acosta’s work is deeply rooted in the jazz tradition, his continuous quest for new sounds as well as his desire to pursue musical elements from his own cultural background make him both a unique and highly in demand pianist and educator. Boris is an Assistant Professor in jazz studies at Nanjing University of the Arts in Nanjing, China.

 

Boris has toured extensively in the US, in Central and South America, in Europe, and in Asia, where he has performed at many of the premier international festivals: the Blue Note Jazz Festival in New York City, the JZ Jazz Festival, Beijing, the Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro and the Festival Independiente de Teatro in Bogota, Colombia. In 2004 he performed at the Democratic Convention in Boston, MA. Boris is also frequently featured at some of the best known jazz clubs in the US and abroad: the Zinc Bar, the ShapeShifter Lab, DROM, Garage in New York, the Regatta Bar in Boston, the Mechanics Hall in Worcester, MA, the Suzhou Cultural Center in China, and the JZ Jazz Club in Hangzhou, and Shanghai, China.

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