| Bruce Adolphe
Bruce Adolphe is a renowned composer who has written works for many of the world’s most renowned artists, from Itzhak Perlman, Yo-Yo Ma and Sylvia McNair, to the Beaux Arts Trio and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, may be known best to SILL audiences as the “Piano Puzzler,” the entertaining guest on NPR’s Performance Today.
A cross between Car Talk and Will Shortz’s Puzzles, Bruce and host Fred Child informally talk about the musical issues raised by Adolphe’s comic compositions. An innovative educator and versatile performer, Bruce is also Resident Lecturer and Director of Family Concerts for The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and founding creative director of The Learning Maestros. For eight seasons, he’s introduced every concert from the stage of Alice Tully Hall for the Chamber Music Society and has developed and programmed several new music series, including “Double Exposure” and “Chamber Music Beginnings.”
He’s been on the faculties of the Juilliard School, NYU and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale, and written three books on music. His CD of music inspired by Jewish subjects won a Grammy for producer David Frost in 2005 and his film scores include a permanent documentary at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC.
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