Pianist, Eva Novoa, was born in Barcelona, Spain. She is a jazz pianist/composer and was classically trained as a kid. She studied Jazz in ESMUC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya). In 2005 she traveled for the first time to New York where she studied at Ralph Alessi’s school SIM (School for Improvisational Music). In 2005 Eva moved to The Netherlands where she studied at Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague/Royal Conservatoire (Bachelor in Jazz Piano, Master in Jazz Composition while she was awarded with a full scholarship of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science).

Eva has recorded, produced and released twelve albums with her own music on her name as a leader. She currently works with the Brooklyn based independent label 577 Records and has released seven albums since 2023 on this label. Chronologically from newest to earliest, Solo (I) her first solo piano work and album was just released in March 2026 this year and has got international recognition as well as multiple outstanding reviews including The Wire Magazine and The New York City Jazz Record or All About Jazz (two more solo albums/volumes are to be released next as part of a piano solo trilogy). In 2025 she released three albums on this same label. The Freedom Suite: Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio Vol.2 released in October 2025 with Daniel Carter on saxophones, trumpet, clarinet and flute and renowned Francisco Mela on drums and vocals, which features Novoa on piano, Fender Rhodes, vocals and Chinese gongs, and compositions and was reviewed by The New York City Jazz Record. Then also Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio Vol.2 was released in August 2025 with world renowned Drew Gress on bass (and modular synth) and Devin Gray on drums, Eva Novoa on piano and compositions, which got remarkable reviews on The Wire and All About Jazz. And again also last year Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Vol.2 was out in May 2025 with world known drummer extraordinaire Gerald Cleaver on drums and Masa Kamaguchi on bass, and Eva Novoa on piano, Fender Rhodes, gongs and compositions, which received great acclaim with many mentions in USA, Canada and the UK radio shows and international jazz press. In 2024 she released two earlier albums on 577 Records, that is Novoa/Carter/Mela Trio Vol.1 album released in November 2024 which got a three and a half star review on DownBeat by well known jazz writer Phil Freeman, and Novoa/Gress/Gray Trio Vol.1 in March 2024 which also got coverage by All About Jazz, was selected as ‘Best on Bandcamp’ and reviewed by The New York City Jazz Record and others. Her first album on the label is Novoa/Kamaguchi/Cleaver Trio Vol.1 again with drummer Gerald Cleaver on drums and Masa Kamaguchi on bass, and Eva Novoa on piano, Fender Rhodes, gongs and compositions, and came out earlier in April 2023, which got two reviews on The Wire and multiple mentions and coverage on All About Jazz, BBC radio, and many others.

All her previous albums -five albums including her debut Trio and Quartet- have been released on the international prestigious jazz label Fresh Sound New Talent since 2012. Two of her albums on this jazz label released in 2016 and 2018 got very good press, including two four star reviews on DownBeat, other relevant reviews on The New York City Jazz Record, Jazziz gave a special mention to her track “Déjà Vu” as song of the month in 2018 or Jazz Weekly in California also published great reviews. Her album Live At IBeam with her Ditmas Quartet was also selected in two All About Jazz radio shows in January 2019 and April 2019 amongst other free avant garde artists. DownBeat magazine selected this same album as one of the ‘best jazz albums of 2018’. Her next quartet album recorded on tour in Miami and Florida was released on Fresh Sound New Talent, Satellite Quartet in 2020 and received multiple reviews internationally including a three star review on DownBeat.

She works with sound engineer and six time Grammy Award winner Jeremy Loucas. She also works with New York photographer and luminary Richard Sandler who has collaborated in the album covers and design of Novoa’s albums and records with his fabulous black and white photographies.

Since she arrived to NY, Eva Novoa has performed at venues like The Stone, Barbès, Korzo Konceptions Music Series, IBeam, Nublu, Cornelia Street Café, The New York Forward Festival, Soapbox Gallery, ShapeShifter Lab, La MaMa Galleria and CultureHub, Brooklyn FAM (Festival of Arts and Music), or Mise-en place amongst others. She plays or has worked with drummers Billy Mintz, Gerald Cleaver, Francisco Mela, Jeff Davis, Devin Gray, or Satoshi Takeishi, saxophonists Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, world renowned viola player Mat Maneri, bass players Drew Gress, Matt Pavolka, pianist Shoko Nagai, or drummer Tom Rainey amongst others. She recently works and collaborates with cinematographer and visual artist Art Jones. She was a student of classical teacher Sophia Rosoff since 2006 until 2015. Eva also toured twice and recorded in the studio in Miami, FL in 2016 and 2017 with her Satellite Quartet. While in Miami she played at venues like Floyd, The Corner, Lagniappe and The Globe amongst others. She has also recently performed live in Boston/Cambridge at The Lilypad with her new trio featuring Francisco Mela and Daniel Carter in mid December 2022 and with this same band at the New York Forward Festival in Brooklyn in 2024. Eva is currently based in New York City since 2012.

While in The Netherlands Eva was invited to play with her quartet Eva Novoa Quartet in the Dutch Jazz Competition 2006. She has been a steady pianist of the West Coast Big Band. They presented their third cd New Dutch in October 2009. With this band she got the chance to play with singers Greetje Kauffeld, Deborah J.Carter and Dutch chromatic harmonica player Hermine Deurloo. She regularly performed in Holland where she has played with musicians like Ruud Jacobs, Greetje Kauffeld, Sjoerd Dijkhuizen, Marcel Serierse, Simon Rigter, Ruben Samama, or Frits Landesbergen and has toured with different projects in Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, Norway, Poland and Belgium. She was on tour with Portuguese singer based in New York Sara Serpa in 2011, on the European presentation of her album Mobile. In Holland she also worked for the Dutch multi awarded musical production Soldaat van Oranje, De Musical which is the longest running and by far the biggest theatrical production ever staged in The Netherlands with millions of visitors. 

“a deep and thoughtful release”... The Wire, April 2023

"...a group that likes to take its time, which is more than welcome in these days when many self-proclaimed contemporary jazz musicians seem to regard hyperactivity as game-changing" The Jazz Journal (UK), Nic Jones May 2020, about Satellite Quartet. ***1/2, 3.5stars

“A bold and restless pianist, moving easily between acute precision and painterly fervor“ DownBeat Magazine, Josef Woodard August 2016, on Butterflies And Zebras **** 4stars