Updated: November 4, 2024
Born: March 9
Composer and arranger Christopher Boscole plays piano, keyboards, and soprano saxophone. He has produced 14 albums that cross over in a variety of genres and formats - original piano solos in improvisational, new age , folk, pop, and classical styles, jazz piano trio and sextet, contemporary instrumental jazz ensembles with synthesizers and vocals, and latest upcoming release “Time for Love” - classic love songs featuring vocals, sax, and guitar.
Boscole's music has seen years of long term charting in top 10 airplay on new age radio, Sirius, Pandora, Spotify, Musak, I tunes, You tube, and other formats. He grew up in a musical household as his mother was a singer and piano teacher. After learning music basics from his mother, he studied classical piano for years with Mikiko Miyamoto, winning honors at adjudications. Christopher studied saxophone with Bill Wicker and played sax and piano in school jazz groups and later pop music and rock n roll as he worked for years as a pianist and keyboardist with a variety of artists/bands in Seattle including Diane Schuur, Phil Sheeran, Michael Powers, Jay Thomas, Top 40 Bands - Modern Dance, Yankee, and Impala USO Air Force show tour.
He studied privately with jazz artist Gary Peacock and also continued music theory and jazz studies with Al Galanti at Edmonds Community College where Boscole also performed and recorded with the Soundsation Vocal Jazz group directed by Frank DeMiero. Later at the University of Washington, Christopher performed and recorded with the Studio Jazz Band under Roy Cummings and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music - Classical Piano. A year later Boscole was awarded a scholarship and graduate teaching position at the University of Miami where he earned a Master of Music in Studio Music and Jazz Piano Performance.
In his early career Christopher produced five albums: Shimmer, September Song, Land of Music, O Christmas Tree and Natural Instincts. In following years Boscole focused on raising a family while working as a teacher and musician. In 2008 he took a sabbatical and sailed to Hawaii and released Presents of Angels and Inner Voyages.
Christopher then returned to teaching in Seattle and later produced Floating on a Melody in 2012. The next year Boscole retired from teaching and sailed back to Hawaii and released A New Age of Classical piano in 2014. This was followed by Skipping on Daisies in 2016 and Soul Dreams in 2017. Christopher released Dawn of Love in 2019, a collection of classic love themes and 2 originals. In 2022 Boscole released the single "A Simple Song" and the album "Isle of Shadows - A New Age of Classical Piano." In 2024 Christopher produced “Time for Love” - Classic love songs featuring Vocals, Sax, and Guitar - release pending for promotion starting in January 2025.
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