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Nancy Boston, Professor of Music at Mansfield University of PA, earned the Bachelor of Music degree, cum laude, from Lawrence University. She received the MM and DMA in Piano Performance from the Peabody Conservatory.
Dr Boston has specialized in the performance of music by female composers for the past 15 years, presenting many solo and chamber concerts. Dr. Boston’s interest in the field of women and music has also led to the lecture “Good Daughters of Music” tracing the emergence of female composers in the United States.
She has presented this at numerous college campuses in the eastern U.S. She has also presented a lecture/recital at two of the “International Festival of Women Composers”. She is an active member of the International Alliance of Women in Music association. She has appeared as soloist throughout the United States. Foreign appearances include concerts in Paris, France, St. Petersburg, Russia, Ernen, Switzerland, New Zealand and Guelph, Canada.
She is a Past President of Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association, and is a member of the Executive Board. She has been an active adjudicator for piano competitions and festivals on the local, state and regional levels.
After a concert tour in spring of 2006, she recorded a CD “American Women: Modern Voices in Piano Music”. Since its release in September, the CD has received glowing reviews, including: “All the selections are attractive, but it is Boston’s clear and colorful playing that make this disc a must” and “Nancy Boston brings strength and power along with her fluid singing tone and her wonderful sense of poise to the performance of these unusually interesting pieces”. The CD has been featured on classical radio programs, including Classical Discoveries in New Jersey, and Women’s History Month on WVYI (PA), which included an interview. The Diemer Sonata from the recording will be featured over the Classical Public Radio Network on a program titled “Modern Masterpieces” on September 8 of this year.