08/28/2026
Meet the Artist! Bruce Adolphe is a composer of international renown whose works are frequently performed by major artists, including Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma, Fabio Luisi, Joshua Bell, Daniel Hope, Angel Blue, Susanna Phillips, Anthony McGill, the Brentano String Quartet, the Washington National Opera, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and over 60 orchestras worldwide. He is the author of several books, including The Mind’s Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination for Performers, Composers, and Listeners (Oxford, 3rd ed., 2021); Visions and Decisions: Imagination and Technique in Music Composition (Cambridge Elements series, 2023); and Dreaming and Thinking in Music: Exercises for Exploring Inspiration and Imagination in Musical Creativity (Oxford, 2025). Widely known for his Piano Puzzler segment on American Public Media’s Performance Today, broadcast weekly from 2002-2025, Mr. Adolphe is the resident lecturer and director of family concerts for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in New York. His many pieces for family audiences include Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto; Tough Turkey in the Big City; The King, the Cat, and the Fiddle; and Oceanophony.
We are unbelievably thrilled to open our season with this incredible, imaginative artist!
