ABOUT
Bo White was born in Silver Spring, Maryland and grew up being told by the public education system that he would be some manner of scientist or engineer. That ended up being false, but the assumption was understandable. He demonstrated little interest in the world of ‘the arts’ and enjoyed the consistent, orderly perfection of mathematics, but a metamorphosis occurred in his junior year of high school when his family moved to Valletta, Malta. Concerned that his less-than-socially-interested son wasn’t getting involved in the community of the new school, Bo’s father told him that he’d pay him 100 Euros to land a singing role in the school play. A deal was struck and Bo got his first taste of being a part of the arts.
After that, there was no going back. Whether it was writing poetry, drawing, painting, dancing, acting (on stage or in film), or performing stand-up comedy, Bo wanted to experience it all. Taking a year off after high school to work as an actor in Malta while tutoring in Math and Chemistry to pay rent, Bo eventually decided to return to America and get back together with his previous love, mathematics, and began studying mechanical engineering at the University of Delaware. The reunion was to be short lived, however, when he became obsessed with learning music to the point where engineering no longer held his attention. He started on Guitar, learning with a friend before buying a cheap keyboard and very quickly realizing that this was the thing that he’d been looking for. The layout of the piano clarified all sorts of musical concepts that hadn’t intuitively clicked on guitar, and suddenly it just became the perfect storm of creative chaos and orderly theoretical structures. At this point the idea of not pursuing a formal study of music was unthinkable. Bo moved to Boston to attend a 12-week summer semester at Berklee College of Music. The only problem was… He couldn’t really play piano yet, as he’d only started self teaching 10 months prior to attending the summer semester. So it wouldn’t be until 2 years later after getting a real piano teacher that he would begin attending Berklee to study composition.
Bo’s voracious appetite for artistic variance hasn’t faded yet, and he’s studied and written everything from pop songs to 12-tone chamber music. With artistic influences ranging from Milton Babbitt and Mark Rothko to Kanye West and Robert Frost, Bo’s goal is to one day create a work of art that bridges the gap between Ludwig Van Beethoven and William Topaz McGonagall.
