SheetMusicCatalog.com - WILLIAM BOLCOM Sheet Music 3 Ghost Rags Piano Publications Composer, pianist, and author william bolcom (b. 1938) is one of the cutting-edge figures on the American musical scene. http://www.sheetmusiccatalog.com/artist_search.asp?artist_name=William Bolcom&NA
Derek Bermel Worklist Photographs Reviews studied composition with william Albright, Louis Andriessen, william bolcom, and Michael Fringe Festival, TONK, Jazz Xchange (UK), pianist Christopher Taylor http://www.peermusicclassical.com/composer/Bermel.cfm
Extractions: Derek Bermel Worklist Photographs Reviews Derek Bermel "A world premiere work destined to lead a long, illustrious life. [Bermel] has lived in these Bulgarian rhythms and melodies, woven them far into the complex texture of his composition, and as a result, created a powerful work of art that speaks a language all its own and is built to last. "The centerpiece was Derek Bermel's ''Language Instruction'' (2003), an amusing full ensemble work based on the rhythms and gestures of language tapes. The clarinet was, in effect, the voice on the tape, and the other instruments were the students variously willing or difficult, competent or bumbling who must repeat the phrases. Mr. Bermel spins this interaction into an increasingly chaotic fantasy that would have been perfectly at home on a program with Berio's Sequenza III."
Extractions: Office: 2009 VMB Alan Huckleberry, Visiting Assistant Professor of Piano (Piano pedagogy and chamber music), is an active solo pianist and chamber musician, as well as a sought-after master class clinician and lecturer on piano pedagogy. He has performed both in recitals and as a soloist with orchestras in Germany, Great Britain, the Czech Republic, Italy, Austria, Spain, France, and the United States. He is also a prizewinner of numerous national and international piano competitions, such as the first prizes in the German National Competition and the University of Michigan concerto competition. Dr. Huckleberry holds degrees from the conservatories of Karlsruhe and Wuppertal (Germany), as well as from the University of Michigan (MM, DMA). His main teachers include Barbara Szczepanska, Naoyuki Taneda, Josef Scherrer, Martin Katz, and Arthur Greene. Back to Faculty and Staff Directory Last updated 14-oct-03 Prospective Students Current Students Faculty and Areas Alumni ...
Gordon Beeferman, Composer & Pianist teachers have included william Albright, william bolcom and Leslie Awards (including the 2002 william Schuman prize A fully liberated pianist (Cadence Magazine http://gordon.inkbox.org/bio.html
Extractions: Gordon Beeferman's compositions, which include works for piano, voice, orchestra, guitar and various chamber groups, have been performed in New York, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Rome, and elsewhere. The Chicago Tribune praised Beeferman for his "masterly orchestral craftmanship... odd, refreshing sonorities and expressive speech." The Albany Times-Union described his work as "chilling...unpredictable...brutal." A native of Cambridge, Mass., Beeferman was born in 1976. He played piano from an early age; as a teenager he studied jazz and Third Stream with Ran Blake and Hankus Netsky of the New England Conservatory. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan School of Music, where he received his B.M. in composition and was awarded the Stanley Medal, the School's highest undergraduate honor. His teachers have included William Albright, William Bolcom and Leslie Bassett. Beeferman has received much recognition for his work, including three BMI Student Composer Awards (including the 2002 William Schuman prize), an ASCAP Young Composer Award, and the BMG/Williams College National Awards to Young Composers Grand Prize. He has been a fellow at Tanglewood (2001) and a resident composer at the Copland House (2000). He has received grants from the American Music Center and has been commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony, guitarist David Leisner, the Albany Symphony Orchestra, Concert Artists' Guild and Premiere Commission, Inc.
Extractions: July 27, 2003 Concerts Special Non-Subscription Events (Note: Schedule is subject to change.) Concert subscriptions are $250 to $625; single concert tickets are $15 to $75. Preconcert talks, which start one hour before performances, are free to ticket-holders. Tickets are $600 for the annual SummerFest Gala, taking place at 6 p.m. Aug. 16 in a La Jolla home. Tickets to the Family Concert on Aug. 10 at the Stephen Birch Aquarium (6 p.m. exhibit tour and sea-related activities; 7 p.m. concert) are $15 for adults, $5 for children under 18. The free Coaching Workshops will be at 10 a.m. weekdays starting Wednesday and ending Aug. 14 in the museum's Coast Room.
Classical Preview mezzosoprano Frederica von Stade, in an increasingly rare Boston appearance (January 25); and the irresistible bolcom (pianist/composer william) Morris http://www.bostonphoenix.com/archive/music/98/01/01/CLASSICAL_PREVIEW.html
Extractions: clubs by night bands in town club directory pop concerts ... hot links Some very good things lie in store for us in 1998. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, for example, couldn't offer much better news than the return of Sir Simon Rattle. Along with Pierre Boulez, who hasn't made a guest appearance here in years, Rattle is the conductor I most want to hear perhaps the most thoughtful and incisive conductor of his generation. And the least complacent. His first concert (January 7 through 10 and 13) is a program centered in Eastern Europe, with one of Dvorak's loveliest works, the Serenade for Winds, Szymanowski's Stabat Mater Glagolitic Mass. Then the following week (January 15, 16, and 17) he's back with a program of familiar Beethoven, the first Leonore Overture, the Emperor Concerto (with Radu Lupu), and the Pastoral Symphony. what's ahead in
WebRing: Hub Brian Hamby, pianist Brian Hamby is a pianist in Austin, TX population, including Scott Joplin, James Scott, Joseph Lamb, william bolcom, william Albright, Max http://webring.com/hub?ring=scottjoplin
Composer Biographies -Classical 102.1 KDFC biographies courtesy of The Grove Concise Dictionary of Music william (Elden) bolcom Born Seattle As a pianist he has taken a leading part in the revival http://kdfc.com/new/composers_detail.cfm?id=49
CBC SCHEDULE BARITONE; BACH CONSORT, RUSSELL BRAUN pianist, BACH CONSORT, CAROLINE MAULE MESSOSOPRANO, MORRIS, JOAN PIANO, bolcom, william COMPOSER, bolcom, william, http://www.cbc.ca/insite/THE_SUNDAY_EDITION/1998/7/19.html
Extractions: Remember the book that came out a few years ago called WE'VE HAD A HUNDRED YEARS OF PSYCHOTHERAPY AND THE WORLD IS GETTING WORSE it seemed to capture a growing sense that therapy doesn't always work. In response to that, PHILOSOPHERS have entered the field, climbing down from their ivory towers to practice a new brand of ethics-based counselling. Louis Marinoff was one of the first North American philosophers to practice one-on-one counselling... he also teaches philosophy at the City College of New York. Some other sources: A lecture from Louis Marinoff Canadian philosophical counselling webpage Index of philosophy resources on the Internet PHILOSOPHER, LOUIS MARINOFF PRODUCER
Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide To Classical Music centerpiece and the soul of the concert, four song settings by william bolcom. tone and crisp, superb diction, nicely complemented by pianist Alison D http://www.classicstoday.com/Classics/ConcertReview_ASPFiles/ViewConcertReview.a
Extractions: A. The Prologue - four mixed-up characters in a Third Avenue bar try to sort themselves out: Quant, son of an Irish immigrant; Malin, a medical intelligence officer in the Canadian Air Force; Rosetta, a buyer for a big department store; and Emble, who is in the Navy. A very soft duet for clarinets is followed by a scalic descent on the flute acting as a 'bridge into the realms of the unconscious'. B. The Seven Ages - a four-fold discussion, 'reasonable and didactic in tone'. The seven variations, without a common theme, arise from aspects of previous sections.
Inside WSU pianist Christopher Taylor has come a long way since age 8, when he recent recording features works by presentday American composers william bolcom and Derek http://www.wichita.edu/insidewsu/@1-24-2002/Conn_Series_Taylor.htm
Extractions: Volume 18, Number 9, January 24, 2002 Issue Connoisseur Series recital to feature young pianist Pianist Christopher Taylor has come a long way since age 8, when he came to his piano teacher Julie Bees, armed with the first movement of Beethoven’s "Moonlight" sonata. Bees, now a WSU piano professor, was then a doctoral student at the University of Colorado. In the past few years Taylor has emerged as one of the nation’s foremost young musicians. Audiences and critics alike hail the intensity and artistry he brings to the works of masters ranging from Bach and Beethoven to Boulez and Bolcom. The Washington Post, for instance, deems Taylor "one of the most impressive young pianists on the horizon today." His program includes works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Olivier Messiaen and Robert Schumann. In recent seasons Taylor has performed in France, Korea, Spain, the Philippines, and the Caribbean. In the United States he has appeared with such orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Detroit Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Houston Symphony, Utah Symphony and Boston Pops, and has toured with the Polish Chamber Philharmonic.
NPR : Performance Today For Friday, August 6, 1999 . pianist Eugene Barban plays the Graceful Ghost Rag by william bolcom. Later in the hour, we talk to william bolcom about his http://www.npr.org/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=4&prgDate=6-Aug-1999
NPR Performance Today Pianist Jonathan Biss and technically secure (never ostentatious) makes him an exceptional pianist for any age of the Emerson Quartet to premiere a quintet by william bolcom; and a http://www.npr.org/programs/pt/4a/biss-bio.html
Extractions: PT Young Artist-in-Residence The young American pianist Jonathan Biss has already established an international reputation with performances in Canada, Finland, Germany, Israel and Italy, as well as throughout the United States. His exceptional promise was recognzed with an Avery Fisher Career Grant in 1999. He has also received Wolf Trap's Shouse Debut Artist award, presented to him in 1997 by Isaac Stern, with whom he appeared in a recital program at Wolf Trap. Mr. Biss' summer schedule in 2001 features returns to the Bard and Bravo! Vail Valley music festival, as well as a series of chamber music performances in Vancouver. Highlights of his 2001-02 season include appearances with the San Francisco Symphony, the National Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra in Ottawa, and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra under James Levine. He will also give recitals in Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Toulouse, France, and will begin his second season as a member of Chamber Music Society Two, the pretigious emerging artists program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He made his subscription concert debut on the Society's main series in December 2000 and will embark on a national tour with the Society this season.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association - Piece Detail LYRIC CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND ORCHESTRA william bolcom, Pulizter Prizewinning composer and pianist william bolcom was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1938. http://www.laphil.org/resources/piece_detail.cfm?id=904
Extractions: "From Joplin to Bolcom and Beyond" John Roache, Piano This is my premier CD of classic and contemporary ragtime, stride and novelty piano music. These are all new recordings. Even though a few of the songs are available as MIDI sequences on this Web Site, all of the songs included on the CD are digitally recorded using my Roland RD-500 Stage Piano utilizing new MIDI sequences never released publicly. Six of the songs are premiere recordings having never been recorded by anyone before. Don't miss my other CD "Hot Kumquats" "...All in all, this is one of the finest ragtime CD's I have ever encountered. If you avoid getting it because it is 'computer music' you are doing yourself a grave disservice. If it bothers you that much, tear up the liner notes before you read them and forget you saw this review. Just put John Roache on your stereo, settle into your listening chair, and prepare to be delighted."
Geoffrey Dean After early training as a pianist, her musical education culminated in william bolcom (1938), born in Seattle, Washington, began private composition and piano http://home.aubg.bg/faculty/dean/amw/notes.htm
Lori Laitman: Performances Fifth Avenue, NY, NY, mezzosoprano Lynn Helding, pianist Jennifer Blyth program features Dickinsonâs poems in settings by william bolcom, Aaron Copland http://www.artsongs.com/hear/performances
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With A Song In Their Hearts: Bolcom And Morris pianist who studied with Darius Milhaud and one of whose scores had its world premiere at the Stuttgart Opera. Yet, when Joan Morris and william bolcom get http://www.washington.edu/research/showcase/1993a.html
Extractions: Seattle native and UW alumnus William Bolcom served as the Hans and Thelma Lehmann Distinguished Professor in the UW music department during 1993-94. He received the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his work, 12 New Etudes for Piano Bolcom studied composition at the UW under John Verrall; later, he studied with Darius Milhaud. Bolcom has composed I Will Breathe A Mountain , premiered by Marilyn Horne at the Carnegie Hall Centennial; Third Sonata for Violin and Piano , commissioned for and premiered by Nadia Salerno-Sonnenberg at the Aspen Music Festival; and Songs of Innocence and of Experience , described as "a masterpiece of our time and place" by The New York Times Bolcom's 1992 opera, McTeague , commissioned and premiered by the Chicago Civic Light Opera, earned praise from the New York Magazine for its "gallant effort to restore music to its rightful place as the dominant and defining element in the operatic mix." The opera was televised by the Public Broadcasting Service as The Real McTeague , a television special conceived by Robert Altman. The Los Angeles Times wrote: "The composer, a master of his complex craft, wrote an accessible score that cannily bridged period pop, mild-mannered modernism and old-fashioned operatic convention."
June 2003 Columns Magazine Feature: Rag To Riches Park to accommodate famous musicians (such as renowned pianist Ignace Paderewski) who visited Seattle to play with the symphony. william bolcom with his http://www.washington.edu/alumni/columns/june03/riches01.html
Extractions: Robert and Virginia Bolcom weren't sure what to do with their son William. Here he was, 4 years old, not yet old enough for kindergarten, yet he played the piano like a maestro. And he composed, too-a Mozart in the making. Young William grew up in a cocoon of music. His grandfather was a flamboyant Seattle lumber baron who thought nothing of smoking 20 cigars and downing two quarts of Scotch a day. He built an entire wing on his mansion overlooking Golden Gardens Park to accommodate famous musicians (such as renowned pianist Ignace Paderewski) who visited Seattle to play with the symphony. William Bolcom with his younger sister Robin, July 1950. Photo courtesy John Pollock. Bolcom's mother, an elementary school teacher, played classical music records to him when he was still in utero. His father, an industrial light bulb salesman, grew up rubbing elbows with music's elite who dropped by his home all the time. Although no one in the Bolcom household was an accomplished musician (his mom did play a mean "I Love You Truly" on the piano, however), William Bolcom grew up with music in his veins and talent many compared to the masters. But what do you do with a prodigy? The Bolcoms didn't know, so they telephoned the University of Washington School of Music, looking for some advice. (Enroll him for private piano lessons at the UW when he turns 11, they were told.)
