2026 Kairos Music Festival & Competition

Prof. Boaz Sharon

Steinway Artist, Artist Director, Professor of Piano

Boaz Sharon, professor at Boston University School of Music, is an internationally known pianist, recording artist and frequent judge at top international piano competitions. He is one of the most sought-after piano teachers in the US. 

Born in Israel Boaz Sharon studied in Brussels with the legendary pianist Stefan Askenase and with Leonard Shure in the US.  He was first prize winner and gold medalist at the Jaen International Piano Competition, Spain.  For many years he was the artistic director of the Prague International Piano masterclasses and the Sichuan International Piano Festival in Chengdu, China. His recording on the Nonesuch records was named one of the 10 best recordings of the year by Newsweek Magazine.

Over the last three years Boaz Sharon performed with the Brazil National Symphony in Brasilia and performed with orchestra at the Teatro Nacional in Rio de Janeiro, gave masterclasses and recitals at the Shenyang International Piano Festival, Beijing, Bangkok, Seoul, Korea, New York City and masterclasses in Vienna and at the Liszt Budapest Academy.  He was jury member at the Franz Liszt International Competition in Budapest in 2022.​In 2024-5 he will be performing with the Brazil Air Force Symphony in Brasilia and will give recitals and masterclasses at the Royal Academy of Music, London and will judge the Cesar Franck International Piano Competition in Brussels and the Mozart International Piano Competition in Bangkok.

Over the years he has given hundreds of piano recitals, including at the Shanghai Concert Hall, Beijing Concert Hall, Xinghai Concert Hall, Guangzhou; Sao Paulo Museum of Modern Art, Gasteig, Munich, Rudolfinum, Prague, Tchaikovsky Conservatory-Moscow, Gnessin Institute-Moscow, Mozart Hall, Seoul, Erasmus House, Jakarta, Juilliard School of Music, Phillips Collection and the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He toured Russia from the Far East to Moscow and performed with the Irkutsk Philharmonic and with the Ural State Orchestra in Yakaterinburg, Russia.

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Sharon was Artistic Director for many years of the Prague International Piano Masterclasses and was Co-Founder of the International Piano Certificate for Piano Artists in Brussels and Paris. Among hundreds of piano masterclasses he has given have been at Beijing, Central Conservatory, Shanghai Conservatory, Xinghai Conservatory, Guangzhou, Gnessin Institute, Moscow, Royal Swedish Conservatory, Stockholm, Seoul National University, Korea University of the Arts in Seoul. His students won top awards at the Hamamatsu International Piano Competition and at the Rubinstein International Piano Competition. A frequent lecturer, Sharon has given lectures at Cambridge, Oxford, Stanford, Berkeley, Columbia and Yale Universities and reviewed books for the Yale University Press.

Boaz Sharon specializes in the performance, lectures, articles and recording of Claude Debussy, Darius Milhaud and other French and Brazilian composers.