William Bolcom

Commissioned for the Tenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition.

Bolcom's commission was originally to write a duet piece for Metropolitan Opera stars soprano Benita Valente and mezzo-soprano Tatiana Troyanos. However, while the composition was in development, Troy...

Written for and premiered by the Delphi Trio, the piano trio hearkens towards William Bolcom's Brahmsian side in gesture, tone and form but only in three movements, not four as often found with that c...

Composer, pianist, and author William Bolcom (b. 1938) is one of the cutting-edge figures on the American musical scene. A student of Milhaud and Messiaen, he has been noted for the development of a s...

Composed during the summer of 1964 at the Aspen Music Festival, performed by students under the direction of Leonard Slatkin. The composer writes: The first movement has much the feel of a Mozart stri...

Premiered by the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on April 4, 1990. A version for 13 singers and band, arranged by Bruce Couglin, and a version for 3-4 singers and 2 keybo...

Bolcom is a famously eclectic stylist. The poems here are sung in Spanish and the musical accompaniment is recognizably Spanish-tinged in rhythm and color (including castanets and the like). But the c...

Two of William Bolcom's earliest and most complex piano solos are now available in this excellent volume featuring new engravings and explanatory and programmatic notes by the composer. Fantasy-Sonata...

An homage to Emmannuel Chabrier (1841-1894), Bolcom composed Chabrieriana for a 2013 residency in Paris where he premiered the piece with pianist Guy Livingston. The composer states that the work does...

For André Hajdu's 60th birthday. In six movements.