Amy Rubin is an accomplished pianist, and former Fulbright Scholar who has studied and taught in Ghana, West Africa. She composes eclectic music and is known for her “clarity, conscience, ability to inhabit a wide-open aesthetic terrain, to deftly mingle jazz, blues, Latin rhythms, West African drumming, and European - American concert traditions.” (Carol Oja, musicologist)

Growing up in New York City, she attended the High School of Music and Art, and began composition at the early age of seven. Soon after she began to also play jazz, rock and roll, and compose music for theater. She attended Cornell University where she received her BA in piano and she holds a Masters Degree in Music from the Yale School of Music in Composition and was a recipient of their Distinguished Alumna Award.

Recently, Amy has enjoyed creating music with the Seattle Chamber Players, Seattle Chamber Music Society, Seattle Symphony, and the Jack Straw Foundation. She is currently working on a number of new projects including “Piano Portraits”, a series of radio pieces funded by the Jack Straw Foundation. She is also working on a film about her field research in Ghana, “Chasing the African Tale”, and a large musical/ visual landscape comprised of new compositions for solo and multiple keyboards presented in combination with her current work in photography.

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