BLUM, Pia

The pianist, organist and composer Pia Blum was born in Dagmersellen/LU in 1967. She attended piano courses at the Lucerne Conservatory while still training as a kindergarten teacher and then studied music in Zurich (MHS) and Lucerne, where she obtained her piano teaching diploma in 1995 (E. Serman). She then continued her studies at the MHS Bern with E. Rademacher (piano improvisation) and U. P. Schneider (composition). She attended master classes in New York, Darmstadt and Vienna and won the "Emmy-Henz-Dièmand-Preis" for a rendition of a contemporary composition at the Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Künste in Vienna. Years of performing at home and abroad followed - and she taught at music schools and privately; she also gave courses at the Instrumentalfortbildung BL, and at the MHS Basel. Finally, she learned to play the organ (S. Doll and B. Müller), which led her to numerous premieres of pieces by Swiss composers and also much traditional music. She also composes and participates in interdisciplinary projects (with Copa&Sordes); she lives and works in Basel.