Biography

Since forming the Bose-Pastor Duo in 2012, pianists Pia Bose and Antonio Pastor have garnered widespread acclaim for their “sensitive, alluring, and exhilarating performances.” Praised for their "remarkable dexterity and subtlety” and deep musical rapport, they share the piano “in perfect harmony, ideally complementing one another” (Versoix Région).
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Awarded Second Prize at the 18th International Piano Duo Competition in Tokyo, Japan, they have been featured on Magma-Espace 2 (Radio Télévision Suisse), Luxembourg's Radio 100.7, in Scènes Magazine, and Revista Ritmo (Spain). They have performed in major cities including London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Lisbon, Edinburgh, Luxembourg, Antwerp, Milan, Geneva, and throughout Switzerland. Notable venues include Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, the St. Martin-in-the-Fields Embassy Series, St. James's Piccadilly, Palais de l’Athénée, and Preston Bradley Hall, during WFMT radio’s live broadcast of the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts.

In 2023, the Bose-Pastor Duo inaugurated the Roser Piano and Keyboard Alumni Concert Series at the University of Colorado Boulder, with Dancing out of the Past, also performed at San Francisco Noontime Concerts, PianoFest Moudon, and Schubertiade Sion (Switzerland). Their recent collaboration with Cie. Julio Arozarena led to 4 mains dansent Ravel (2025), presented at L'Été Musical en Bergerac - Festival du Périgord Pourpre and L'Esplanade du Lac in Divonne-les-Bains (France), along with 3/4, an interdisciplinary reimagining of Ravel's La Valse through the lens of Edgar Allan Poe, created with choreographer Julio Arozarena and videographer Baptiste Leydecker. In September of 2025, 3/4 was featured as Video of the Week by Melómano, one of Spain's leading classical music magazines.
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Origninally from the U.S. and Spain, Pia Bose and Antonio Pastor met in Switzerland, their shared country of citizenship. They both completed early studies in their native countries and earned the Diplôme de Soliste from the former Conservatoire Supérieur et Académie de Musique Tibor Varga in Sion. Prior to forming the Bose-Pastor Duo, both performed as soloists at festivals such as the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), the Gijón International Piano Festival (Spain), and Rencontres Internationales Harmoniques Lausanne (Switzerland), and the Universität Mozarteum Sommerakademie. (Austira). They received musical guidance from renowned artists such as Paul Badura-Skoda, Julian Martin, Robert McDonald, Boris Slutsky, Ana Guijarro, Alexei Nasedkin, John O’Connor, Bruno Canino, Blanca Uribe, Yoheved Kaplinsky, Marc Durand, Boris Bloch, Ann Schein, and Leon Fleisher.
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Pia Bose holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Colorado Boulder (Doctor of Musical Arts), as well as a Bachelor of Arts in biopsychology from Oberlin College. Her principal teachers include Dominique Weber, Andrew Cooperstock, Marian Hahn, Joseph Schwartz, and J.Y. Song. 

Antonio Pastor earned the Diplôme d’Enseignement from the Haute École de Musique de Genève and the Profesor Superior de Piano from the Real Conservatorio de Música de Madrid. His principal teachers include Dominique Weber, Andrew Cooperstock, Sébastien Risler, and Fernando Puchol.
 
Passionate educators, Pia Bose and Antonio Pastor serve as piano faculty members at the École Internationale de Genève and the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève, respectively.