Phillip Bush

Pianist and festival director Phillip Bush is a versatile artist equally at home in chamber music, traditional repertory, and contemporary music of many kinds. He is also a notable educator. Bush was born on January 4, 1961, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. His mother was German, and his father taught French at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Bush grew up mostly in that city. He studied with Leon Fleisher at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has named Fleisher as a chief influence. Influences of another sort came from the Banff Centre School of Fine Arts i...