Pianist, Eva Novoa, was born in Barcelona, Spain. She is a jazz pianist and 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). In this same school Eva worked as a piano teacher at college level in the Jazz Department in 2012.

Eva has recorded and produced eight albums with her own music as a leader. Her new trio album, and sixth published album as a leader, Eva Novoa: Novoa/ Kamaguchi/ Cleaver Trio Vol.1 was released on the Brooklyn based record label 577 records on April 14th this year 2023. This double album was recorded at Oktaven Audio and features world known jazz drummer Gerald Cleaver and her long time collaborator Masatoshi Kamaguchi on bass. This recent trio album edited on limited silver vinyl edition has got great reviews on The Wire Magazine “a deep and thoughtful release”, multiple mentions on All About Jazz Radio Podcasts, and it was mentioned as recommended monthly new release twice this year on The New York City Jazz Record. The art covers and photography are by world renowned street photographer Richard Sandler who is a collaborator of Eva Novoa’s. A Volume 2 will follow.

All her five previous albums have been released on the international jazz label Fresh Sound New Talent since 2012. Two of her most recent albums released in 2016 and 2018 (Ditmas Quartet’s Butterflies And Zebras and Live At IBeam) got very good press, including two four star reviews on DownBeat, other relevant reviews on The New York Jazz City 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 (with Michaël Attias alto sax, Max Johnson bass, Jeff Davis drums) 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 album Satellite Quartet recorded in Miami was released in 2020 on Fresh Sound New Talent. It also got great reviews on DownBeat, UK’s Jazz Journal and in Italy, too. She is also soon releasing her next double trio album next year in March 2024 also on 577 records with her New York Trio which she recorded at Oktaven Audio with Drew Gress on bass (and modular synth) and Devin Gray on drums. She works with sound engineer and six times Grammy Award winner Jeremy Loucas. Also in 2021 Eva Novoa recorded at Sear Sound in New York with another trio of hers with famous drummer Francisco Mela and multi instrumentalist Daniel Carter on saxophones, flute, trumpet and clarinets. From this recording session another double album is being mixed/ mastered and will be released also on 577 records.

Since she arrived to NY, Eva Novoa has performed at venues like The Stone, Barbès, Korzo Konceptions Music Series, IBeam, Nublu, Cornelia Street Café, ShapeShifter Lab, Soapbox Gallery, or Sycamore Bar amongst others. She regularly plays with drummers Francisco Mela, Gerald Cleaver, Devin Gray, Jeff Davis, or Satoshi Takeishi, pianist Shoko Nagai, saxophonist and multi instrumentalist Daniel Carter, saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, bass players Drew Gress, Matt Pavolka, saxophonist and drummer Oscar Noriega, and drummer Tom Rainey amongst others. 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 (with Arturo Garcia drums, Rainer Davies guitar, Kenneth Jimenez bass). 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. 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 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