I compose music to create a space for beauty, mystery and heartbreak.
Maura Bosch is a composer and pianist. Her recent music for solo piano blurs the distinctions between classical, ambient and jazz.
Bosch started out as a composer of classical music. In the 1980s, she studied at Hartt College, Princeton University and Tanglewood. Then, over the next twenty-plus years, she composed mostly classical music, focusing on operas and songs as well as instrumental chamber music. But in 2020 she experienced a major shift in her life. After years of trying to ignore her mother’s Steinway M baby grand piano, which takes up most of the living room in her small south Minneapolis house, she finally became reconciled to it and started to compose music for it.
My mother, Nancy Homan, passed away in 1984. She was a painter, a jazz pianist and an amateur botanist. She was also my first and only piano teacher. I inherited the piano after her death, but years went by before I opened it up and found the courage to compose my own music for it.
The first pieces to emerge from my new relationship to the piano were the Five Nocturnes composed in 2020. Since then I have composed nearly thirty new works which I will be posting on this website during the coming months.
I hope you find solace and peace in the experience of listening to this music. Thank you so much for your time and attention!
This barred owl was hanging out in the front yard of our south Minneapolis home on March 28, 2025. I had never seen him before and never saw him again after that. Unfortunately, right around that time all of the sparrows disappeared from our entire block, I assume due to the bird flu. A few weeks later, Brooks and I moved to an apartment four blocks away and somehow the bird population over here seems to have been spared.