Bruce Adolphe (born May 31, 1955) is a composer, music scholar, the

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of several books on music, and

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. He is currently Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts of the

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and founder and creative director of The Learning Maestros, formerly called PollyRhythm Productions. He also founded the nonprofit 501(c)(3) educational organization Artful Thinkers. Adolphe performs a weekly "Piano Puzzler" segment on the nationally broadcast ''

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'' classical music

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hosted by

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. "Piano Puzzler" was on

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starting in 2002, and is now on

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. The program is also available as a

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and from iTunes. Mr. Adolphe is also artistic director of Off the Hook Arts Festival, an interdisciplinary festival combining music, science, and visual arts, based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Biography

Adolphe earned a

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and a Master's of Music from

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in 1976. In 1974, he wrote music for

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Paul Corrigan's ''Nancy's Tragic Period'' and ''Tan My Hide'', which were performed together at

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in the East Village of Manhattan in May 1974. Adolphe has composed music for

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, Carlo Grante,

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, the

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, the

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, the Miami Quartet, the

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, the

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, the Chicago Chamber Musicians, the

, and many other performers and organizations. In 2009, Adolphe's one-act

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''Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson'', with a libretto by Carolivia Herron, premiered at the Atlas Theater in

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The opera was premiered by the

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and the Washington Performing Arts Society, who commissioned the piece. Also in 2009, Adolphe's "Violin Concerto" was premiered by violinist

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with the Idyllwild Academy Orchestra and conducted by Peter Askim at the Redcat Theater of

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. "Music Is", for children's chorus and

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, premiered as part of the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Thurnauer School of Music in June 2009, with the Young People's Chorus of New York City and the Thurnauer Orchestra. Also in 2009, an evening of Adolphe's

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was presented at

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. On May 3, 2009,

played the world premiere of Adolphe's "Self Comes to Mind", a

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-inspired work for solo

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with two percussionists. The percussion parts were performed by John Ferrari and Ayano Kataoka. "Self Comes to Mind" was a collaboration with neuroscientist

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, who wrote a text in poetic form about the evolution of consciousness for the piece. The premiere took place at the American Museum of Natural History in

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, and featured live interactive images that responded to the music. The images were based primarily on brain scans created by

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, Antonio Damasio's wife and collaborator. The Damasios are the founders and co-directors of the

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and have invited Adolphe to be composer- in-residence there. Prior to his collaboration with Damasio on "Self Comes to Mind", Adolphe composed two other works based on passages in Damasio's book ''

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'', titled "Memories of a Possible Future" (for piano and string quartet) and "Body Loops" (for piano and orchestra). Adolphe's cantata on themes of

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, and freedom around the world, titled "Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society", was commissioned to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the School of Social Work of the

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. It premiered with the Chamber Chorus and musicians from the university's School of Music, conducted by Jerry Blackstone, in November 2011. The film ''Einstein's Light'', a documentary about

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by Nickolas Barris, was released in 2015 in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Einstein's theory of

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. The soundtrack features violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Marija Stroke, and was released by

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in December 2015. Adolphe composed ''Suite for Pete'' (dedicated to the memory of

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) in 2015 for guitarist

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, who premiered the work at the Off the Hook Arts Festival in

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in June 2016. In 2015, Adolphe's

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"I Will Not Remain Silent", inspired by the life of

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, received its world premiere with the IRIS Orchestra conducted by

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and Sharon Roffman as soloist. The concerto was then performed in

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at KKL by violinist Ilya Gringolts with the Human Rights Orchestra of Europe, conducted by Alessio Allegrini. The concerto was again performed by

with the

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, conducted by

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, in January 2017. Daniel Hope performed the concerto again in 2018 in Essen, Germany, with Jaime Martin conducting the Essen Philharmonie. Scott St. John performed the concerto with Guillermo Figueroa conducting the Santa Fe Symphony in 2019. In 2021, The

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released the album ''I Will Not Remain Silent'', including an interview with Bruce Adolphe about the work. Adolphe's "Piano Concerto" premiered in July 2016 with the Philharmonia Zürich conducted by

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with piano soloist Carlo Grante. Grante then commissioned two piano works from Mr. Adolphe: "Chopin Dreams" and "Seven Thoughts Considered as Music", both of which Grante recorded for

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American Masters series and released in November 2017. In 2019, Adolphe's "I saw how fragile and infinitely precious the world is" for mezzo-soprano, cello, and recorded sounds from space (provided by NASA) and planet Earth was recorded by mezzo-soprano Theodora Hanslowe and cellist Sophie Shao and later premiered (in live performance) by mezzo-soprano Kady Evanyshyn and Ms. Shao. The latter duo also performed the work at NASA Goddard Space Center in March, 2019, at a colloquium honoring the late scientists and astronaut Piers Sellers. The title of the piece is a quote of Piers Sellers, said looking back at Earth from the space station. Adolphe is also known for his compositions for young listeners. These works are created primarily for The Learning Maestros, Adolphe's education company, which he co-founded with Julian Fifer, an

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best known as founder and executive director of the

. His compositions for young listeners are often interdisciplinary, combining music with science,

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, and

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. Adolphe's pieces for the Learning Maestros include: *''Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto'', premiered by Chicago Chamber Musicians in 2000 at the

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(unveiling of the T-rex "Sue") *''Red Dogs and Pink Skies: A Musical Celebration of Paul Gauguin'', created to accompany an exhibition at the

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*''Witches, Wizards, Spells, and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare'', premiered by

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actors with the Chicago Chamber Musicians *''Tough Turkey in the Big City'', a

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comedy with script by Louise Gikow, featuring a bass trombone as the turkey; premiered at

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and at the

*''The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses'', based on the story by Paul Goble. Commissioned by Boston Musica Viva. *''Zephyronia'', a piece about the power of

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, created with writer Louise Gikow for the

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, who perform the music (for

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) and act the parts of the characters in the story. Adolphe's music has also been recorded on

, CRI, PollyRhythm,

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archives,

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, Soundbrush, and other

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s. His

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s include the documentary permanently on display in the

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Books

* ''The Mind's Ear: Exercises for Improving the Musical Imagination'',

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(2nd edition published 2013) * ''What To Listen for in the World'',

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* ''Of Mozart, Parrots and Cherry Blossoms in the Wind: A Composer Explores Mysteries of the Musical Mind'',

* ''Secrets of Creativity'',

, an anthology of writings on the creative process and the neuroscience of creativity, edited by Suzanne Nalbantian. Adolphe's chapter is "The Musical Imagination: Mystery and Method in Musical Composition". Published in 2019.

Selected works

*2019: "Coiled" for string quartet, based on Beethoven's Opus 95, first movement. Commissioned by the

. *2019: "The King, the Cat, and the Fiddle" for solo violin, 2nd violin, viola, cello, bass, piano, and narrator. Commissioned by Daniel Hope. Text from the story by Yehudi Menuhin and Christopher Hope. *2019: "The Nightingale" for solo violin and narrator (one person); commissioned by

. (Text by the composer, based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen, updated to include a robotic bird.) *2019: "I Too Bleed and Hope for Beauty" A tribute to the life of Alma Rose, violinist and conductor of the Women’s Orchestra, Auschwitz; for chamber orchestra. Commissioned by the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra, Houston. Premiere on November 15, 2019, in conjunction with the re-opening of the renovated Holocaust Museum of Houston. *2017: "Out of the Air" for clarinet, cello, and piano; commissioned by Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival; premiered by Anne-Marie McDermott (pno), Todd Palmer (clar), Keith Robinson (vc), Ocean Reef, Fl. *2014: "Chopin Dreams" for solo piano; commissioned by Concert Artists' Promotion Trust for Carlo Grante; premiered in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; European premiere in the Brahms-saal of the Musikverein in Vienna (2015); recording for

American Masters series released in 2016/2017 *2015: ''Einstein's Light'' music for a documentary by Nickolas Barris; soundtrack featuring

and Marija Stroke (piano); released on Sony Classical Records *2014: "Musics of Memory" for piano, marimba, harp, guitar; based on

's work *2014: "Piano Concerto" premiered July 10, 2016, with

conducting the Philharmonia Zurich and Carlo Grante as piano soloist *2014: "I Will Not Remain Silent" for violin and orchestra; inspired by the life of

*2011: "Reach Out, Raise Hope, Change Society" for SATB chorus, wind quintet, 3 percussionists; with text about social justice, civil rights, freedom *2009: "Self Comes to Mind" for cello and 2 percussionists; with text by Antonio Damasio and images based on brain scans by

*2009: ''Let Freedom Sing: The Story of Marian Anderson'' one-act opera with libretto by Carolivia Herron *2004: "Da Boo" for soprano and marimba *2004: "The Tiger's Ear: Listening to Abstract Expressionist Paintings" for flute, oboe, violin, viola, cello, piano *2005: "Violin Concerto" *1998: "Whispers of Mortality: String Quartet No. 4" (1998) *2005: "Three Secret Stories" for violin and piano (2005) *1998: "Couple" for cello and piano (1998) *2007: "Wind Across the Sky: Settings of Native American Poetry" for soprano and piano trio *1999: "A Thousand Years of Love" for soprano and piano *2005: "Songs of Life and Love" setting of poems by Iranian peoples, Iranian, Palestinians, Palestinian, and Israeli women *1994: "Memories of a Possible Future" for string quartet and piano *2003: "Red Dogs and Pink Skies: A Musical Celebration of Paul Gauguin" for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, bass, percussion; with Slide show, slides and optional narration *2000: "Tyrannosaurus Sue: A Cretaceous Concerto" for 13 musicians and narrator *2005: "Witches, Wizards, Spells, and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare" for actors and 13 musicians *1982: "Mikhoels the Wise" opera in two acts about Solomon Mikhoels; libretto by Mel Gordon *2004: "Tough Turkey in the Big City" for bass trombone, trumpet, clarinet, violin, piano, percussion, and actor *1983: "The False Messiah" opera in two acts, libretto by Mel Gordon *1994: "The Amazing Adventure of Alvin Allegretto" comic opera for children in one act, libretto by Sara Schlessinger *1992: "Marita and Her Heart's Desire" for 12 instruments and narrator; fairy tale with story by Louise Gikow *1990: "Out of the Whirlwind" for mezzo-soprano, tenor, and large Wind band, concert band; text by victims and survivors of the The Holocaust, Holocaust *1985: "Ladino (language), Ladino Songs of Love and Suffering" for soprano, horn, and guitar * 1986: "Night Journey for Wind Quintet" *"And All is Always Now" for violin and piano *"The Bitter, Sour, Salt Suite" for solo violin with Narration, narrator; poems by Louise Gikow

References

External links

Bruce Adolphe official siteThe Learning Maestros site"Self Comes to Mind" site

Lauren Keiser musicAdolphe's page on La MaMa Archives Digital CollectionsAdolphe on the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center siteOff the hook official website
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