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He is a composer, pianist, teacher and author born in
the United States. He founded
PollyRhythm Productions, which he named after his parrot, Polly Rhythm, and
also holds the post of Creative Director with them and is also the Resident
Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts at the Chamber Music Society of
Lincoln Center. Regularly heard
on the radio his Piano Puzzler is part of the classical music Performance
Today. As a composer he is
regularly called upon to be composer-in-residence at music festivals throughout
the United States and his works have been performed by artists that include
the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, the Beaux Arts Trio, the Chamber Music
Society of Lincoln Center, the National Symphony, Sylvia McNair and Itzhak
Perlman to name but a few. His
compositions include many works for the theatre and four operas that
include the children's opera Marita and Her Heart's Desire, which
was premiered at New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1995. Recordings of his works generated a
Grammy Award for the producer, David Frost, in 2005 and he has a film score
that is featured as part of the permanent documentary at the Holocaust
Museum in Washington D.C. As
an author his books have included What To Listen For in the World, Of
Mozart, Parrots and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind and The Mind's Ear. In the field of musical education
he has been a faculty member of New York University and the Juilliard
School of Music as well as a visiting lecturer at Yale and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art in New York.
Chamber Music
Society of the Lincoln
Centerrecordings
Telarc 80460 (CD: Marita and Her Heart's Desire)
Conductor - Bruce Adolphe
Sources:
- http://www.bruceadolphe.com/about.htm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Adolphe
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